Roland Future Design Lab to fuel music technology innovation
Roland Corporation has announced the launch of an R&D group formed to help design the future of music creation. As...
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Class is in session: DeForrest Brown on Black innovation in music
If you want a take on exactly how Black innovators have influenced music, look to this full-length lecture (and performance)...
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....
24 Hours Palestine is broadcasting now, connecting community radio worldwide
In times of darkness and violence, radio is quietly being reborn on the internet – drawing together community stations, and...
Selestium’s plucked Quiverer M5 module, as discovered on an alien dig
Selestium Modular isn't quite like other modular makers - creator Adriana Knouf imagines an extraterrestrial dig on which this creation...
“High” and “low” pitch are not universal; sometimes there are crocodiles
"High" and "low" pitch are universal, right? Wrong. Try large and small, thick and thin, and among Zimbabwe's Shona people,...
Get an ultra-realistic modeled cymbal plug-in for free: CHAIR EXC!TE CYMBAL
Chair Audio quietly launched a new plug-in, and it's both free and wonderful. EXC!TE CYMBAL is, no exaggeration, realistic enough...
Piastrone is a perfect, playable reverb for Ableton Live – even when other reverbs fail
Plenty of reverbs will flood you with sound or bathe you in shimmering tails. Fewer are controllable in multiple situations,...
IRCAM ASAP plug-in suite transforms and remixes sounds; part of it is free
Some of that brain-bending research from Paris' famed IRCAM is coming your way in plug-in form - even (partly) for...
Kyoka is imagining new worlds, playing machines, and exploring neurology: interview
Kyoka, the innovative producer and artist (Raster-Noton), has electrodes attached to her head with good reason. In collaboration with neurologists,...
