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How the Open Music Lab creates safe space for refugees, marginalized artists [Hacklab Inputs]

This is an easy one to relate to: you want space to be creative, to grow in your practice, and...

Tracktion Waveform Free gets updates for 2022 – and it’s a solid no-cost starter DAW

Free matters - for beginners, for cash-strapped musicians, for teaching, for exchange with other folks, and as a way to...

Stable Diffusion, the slick generative AI tool, just launched and went live on GitHub

You've almost certainly already seen a torrent of high-quality text-to-image generation pics lately. Now one of the most impressive generative...

A five-story pyramid is backdrop for Kyiv’s music artists and queer performers

Inspired by crystalline geometries, Christopher Bauder’s STALACTITE towers nearly five stories over a Berlin backlot. On Sunday, it’s the setting...

Free Mod Squad v2 adds missing modulation, envelopes, and trackers to Ableton Live

It's incredible this package is free - a full set of fifteen carefully crafted, native-feeling add-ons for Ableton Live that...

Atari, at 50, leaves a legacy of electronic imagination in visuals and sound

It's official: video games, or certainly their leading icon Atari, have crossed the half-century landmark. But maybe that's why the...

Weddell seal vocalizations are cooler than your synthesizer, and we’re still learning more

When it comes to chilly polar sounds, it's tough to top the incredible Antarctic Weddell seal. These creatures live in...

Trace the Black roots of disco, house, and techno in videos and reading – summer school is in

What a week - the Juneteenth commemoration in the US, Chicago house music interest trending as it's repurposed for new...

Arturia V-Collection 9, feature by feature: a dreamy, futuristic update, new and old

Arturia's V-Collection 9 is more than just another "add some more instruments, update a few things" V-Collection refresh. This one...