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Landscape’s Ferrous, an electro-mechanical resonator for strings

In collaboration with SF builder and experimental sound artist Victoria Shen, Ferrous from Landscape is a "Spinning Magnetic String Resonator."...

In the 90s, this astrophysicist made trippy pop from star sounds

“Who is Dr. Fiorella Terenzi? I’ll take 90s LaserDiscs for $600, Alex. Wait – back up, here’s more of Dr....

Sequential’s Trigon-6 gets the desktop treatment – and update adds MPE

Sequential's monster Trigon-6 just got smaller and more accessible. You get all of the features of the keyboard Trigon-6, but...

A musical parkour course through the urban environment: Guy LaBorde

Oh, it’s like parkour! Suddenly, it clicks – organic ambient textures quickly juxtaposed with broken beats and forward propulsion of...

LA x Berlin celebrates the sunnier Berlin connection in sound

For music to blossom, artists needs more than isolation. And Berlin and Los Angeles have increasingly been a corridor for...

Spatial sound, Suzanne Ciani, a free workshop online, and the joy of quad, with KamranV

With the likes of Apple pushing the concept, spatial audio is fresh again. KamranV connects past, present, and future and...

The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials

The acoustic principles are the same as wind instruments (and pipe organs). But there’s something eerily beautiful about wind organs...

Miller Puckette, creator of Max and Pd, on how he’s patching his way to remote collaboration

Miller Puckette, the original creator of Max and Pure Data, has been working on keeping connected remotely, too. In this...