behind the scenes

Premiere: Vexillary’s “Animalic” 3D music video channels Alien, Venom

Your music video break begins now. From New York's Vexillary and 3D artist Leo Andrade (genre: "Cyber Horror") comes a...

The road to Synplant 2: the story behind this mind-bending plug-in sequel

Synplant 2: it's still leafy and organic - just more so. Now it has AI-powered sonic analysis and generation which...

Inside Ableton’s Drift, the hardware-inspired synth in Live 11, with designer Marc Resibois

Drift is a friendly, MPE-ready, hardware-inspired synth that's now included in Live 11.3. Since anyone with Live 11 - even...

Emmanuel De La Paix’s Terre brûlée, scorched-earth post-ambient: interview, video premiere

Pulsing with electronic punctuation, fuzzy layers and distorted pianos across expansive introspective surfaces, Emmanuel De La Paix on Terre brûlée...

May the 4th be with you, in a new documentary on the sounds of Skywalker

From Ben Burtt’s creations for Star Wars to Bonnie Wild’s work on The Mandalorian to sound editor André Fenley and...

Get lost in magical 1983 footage of Brilliant Trees, delicate IBM Dictaphone looping

Whatever you're doing now, if you want to calm yourself and rediscover the love of slow production, watch this transcendent...

Behind the scenes of a sci-fi 3D music video, as Defasten takes us deep into Notch

Notch is the latest "it" real-time visual effects tool. So as motion maven Defasten produced a dazzling science fiction video...