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Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women

Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...

Open call: Ukraine Resistance Radio, amplifying experimental sounds and music of Ukraine

Ukraine Resistance Radio is a new project for amplifying experimental sounds and music of Ukrainian artists and their allies. An...

Endorphin.es Ghost review: a landmark reverb, distortion, dynamic, multi-FX module

The multi-effects module field is packed with choices. But Ghost stands out for its combination of dynamic, spatial, time, and...

Here’s how to help after the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, and how music is responding

Unthinkable devastation has been unleashed on southeastern Turkey and neighboring parts of northern Syria, with a still-increasing death tool in...

Teenage Engineering OP-1 field review, not a review: in the field, on an album

Nothing defies trends quite like the Teenage Engineering OP-1. It's small and lean, but priced alongside pro instruments. It's a...

Vocal techniques in Ableton Live, with superstar artist and teacher Claire Marie Lim, dolltr!ck

Vocalists wanting to get deeper into production – producers wanting to improve vocals – there’s always more to learn. So...