Agitate Ableton Live tempos, chop up YouTube slop, more with Oliver Torr

Oliver Torr is disrupting your sound waves, mangling your Ableton Live tempo (alongside the awesome duo MIRA新伝統), and assembling drum kits out of AI-surfed YouTube chaos. The Glazmo Network founder has been doing deep research into “sonic mythologies,” and that includes two tools that are must-have for fans of uncertainty, glitch, and general inspiration. Plus, you should look into Oliver’s and Mira’s recent albums if you missed them.

Jaymie Silk song results, showing over a dozen tracks.

Music in training sets is the new Spotify Wrapped: how genAI uses your music

This has to be peak 2026 music tech. Across every feed, producers I follow are posting the same revelation: they’re finding their own music in training sets used by AI. Investigations by Alex Reisner at The Atlantic are making this more visible — and visceral. And the findings are actually much worse than I think […]

Peter Kirn - June 22, 2026

Let’s all watch Piaman cover songs with a joystick and voice synthesis

Piaman, aka half of RYOKO2000, formerly Pianoid (bio: “doesn’t play piano at all”) is turning himself into a human Vocaloid, with joysticks and fast reflexes. And this is what you need right now. Linkhole trail begins now:

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2026

Essential mix: let an hour of tilde’s music energize you (then nerd out!)

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2026

Forget channel closures: watch every decade of MTV music videos online

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2026

Cubase is Japan’s biggest DAW, and you need to watch this Japanese review

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2025

On tonight: 13 most “WTF haunted” synths with Paulee Alex Bow

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025

Your iPad and iPhone just became a portal to endless DX7 sounds

Peter Kirn - September 11, 2025

Yamaha’s VL1 launched physical modeling; it’s time to give it its due

Peter Kirn - June 2, 2025