Watch the 2006 documentary 8 BIT to see chip music and art at its peak – now online
It’s hard to believe not only that 15 years have passed since this movie, but how far chip aesthetics have...
Peter Kirn
Watch the 2006 documentary 8 BIT to see chip music and art at its peak – now online
It’s hard to believe not only that 15 years have passed since this movie, but how far chip aesthetics have...
Review: MOD Dwarf is a lush, bottomless portal to effects that keeps getting better
If you love software, if you love the imaginative and compositional choices it affords, at last hardware is embodying that...
In Instruments series, encounters between inventors and musicians, watchable online
Starting tonight, and continuing over nine more dates in October, the freshly-inaugurated Morphine Raum will host events exploring invention and...
We can be “Heroes,” with Tony Visconti, Erin Tonkon as tutors for Eventide Tverb plugin
We talk less about plug-ins as classics than we do hardware, but Tverb - replicating Tony Visconti's "Heroes" setup but...
Stingray is rebooting electro, in an even more fresh and futuristic form
DJ Stingray 313's latest sounds are powered by science, brightly colored synthetic synthesized wavelengths beamed from the future. So don't...
DuckDuckGo search hack – it’s an instant bpm calculator (and finds frequencies, guitar tab)
Another reason to switch search engines - privacy-centric alternative DuckDuckGo also has a clever little bpm calculator built in. The...
As Facebook reveals fundamental flaws, music tech might reexamine the platform’s role
In just 48 hours, we've been treated both to whistleblower testimony that questions Facebook's impact on society - and a...
With Oramics’ Cut the Wire, Polish and international artists in plea for crisis at Belarus border
At the border of Belarus and Poland right now, all the fault lines of the world's overlaid human catastrophes seem...
Rymdigare for iOS combines FX in a fanciful UI and makes everything fuzzy and wonderful
There's a gently pastel-colored hand-drawn interface, a backstory involving extraplanetary mining. It's a reverb, a degrader and multi-effect, but also...
Iranian Duo Temp-Illusion has assembled a perfect sampler of bleeding-edge production
The duo of Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi has produced a tape/digital release of reworks that buzzes and screams with...
