Tuning into Arabic music: electronic-vocal duo Rust and Hany Manja (with Bitwig Studio download)
Making instruments work in tune with musicians and singers means making them work with more than 12-tone equal temperament alone....
Lebanon
Sri Lanka – ශ්රී ලංකාව – benefit compilation in eerie, delicate drones and ambient sounds
The famines born of corruption continue, planetwide. It's hard to find words sometimes, but the latest release of artists banded...
Crushing on your moustache… dark disco music video premiere with Local Suicide
You deserve a summer break. Here's a dark disco love ode to a moustache, made by Greek-Argentinian partnership of Local...
Beirut and Berlin exchange artists, workshops, and music – listen to mixes and releases
For all the crises, Beirut's international connections continue to grow. Next up is an extensive residency-exchange project, starting in Berlin...
At Instruments series by Morphine Records, physicality and improvisation meet invention
In a world when so much seems virtual, remote, simulated, and yet oddly pre-scripted, Berlin's Morphine Records turned in the...
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...
From the Beirut Synthesizer Center and Bana Haffar, a free introduction to modular synthesis
It's your chance to get a window into where modular synthesis can begin - and virtually travel to Beirut, Lebanon...
Beirut 20/21 presents a music production scene in its own image, supervised by Khyam Allami
In a time of crisis atop crisis, we've followed the diverse musical voices of Beirut artists as they found a...
Beirut Synthesizer Center is a home for Lebanon’s artists, even when electricity is scarce
Lebanon's DIY scene simply won't quit. On Friday June 26 an informal new space opens, a gathering spot for electronic...
Senyawa to infinity: Alkisah is a 44-label release, a decentralized festival, and more
From Beirut to Berlin, Perth to Orange County, Moscow to Nanjing, 42 labels are joining the Indonesian underground in imagining...
