In flickering feedback, an audiovisual synth hums and sings

Krzysztof Cybulski’s Kamer/Ton takes everything you love about video feedback loops and combines them with everything you love about zero-input sound feedback loops, in a flickering and vibrating audiovisual instrument.

Noise Surround System makes spatial audio kinetic, mechanical

To tackle the issue of noise pollution, Warszawa’s panGenerator brought immersive, spatial sound to the philharmonic. But they didn’t make that spatial audio virtual: tracks, skateboard motors, and speakers on karts put this installation into physical motion.

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2025

Three speculative designs on white pedestals with a white background. A quipu-powered drum machine with knotted pieces of rope, a viola da gamba with a hollow body and amplification, and a skull-and-bone horn.

Imagining an alternate history of music instruments, quipu to skulls

What if Neanderthal music had evolved alongside human sounds, or if Andean quipus shaped computer music, or if Les Paul had played the viola da gamba? Polish design house panGenerator gives us a look.

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024

Listen to Gościńska’s full hour of brain-tickling Polish producers, with links

Peter Kirn - January 17, 2024

With Oramics’ Cut the Wire, Polish and international artists in plea for crisis at Belarus border

Peter Kirn - October 5, 2021

The Wall of Sound reimagines a sampler-sequencer for public space and use

Peter Kirn - February 10, 2020

Mix up a year in music, with a guide to weird, under-the-radar Poland

Peter Kirn - December 31, 2018

The retro-futuristic Apparatum draws from Polish electronic music history

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2018

Come on an entrancing ambient techno journey with Milena Kriegs

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2016

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