Stories

20 years on, FAX, Murcof, and Static Discos are fresher than ever

2002, Tijuana, twenty years ago this week: Murcof and FAX released their first albums and launched the label Static Discos....

Mutable Instruments Plaits is now free for Reason, in a beautiful reimagining called Macro

Macro promises to be an essential building block for some terrific Reason patches, with a new look for the interface...

Teenage Engineering made a robotic LFO out of LEGO – and now offers barebones modules

Ever taught a synthesis course? At some point, you invariably try to explain an LFO as being like a machine...

Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving

Reed Ghazala's latest generation of instruments is here, gazing back at us with glass eyeballs and dubbed with names like...

Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving

Reed Ghazala's latest generation of instruments is here, gazing back at us with glass eyeballs and dubbed with names like...

Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles

It’s algorithmic, generative 70s sci-fi pulp, courtesy OpenAI. Artist Lewis tells us about how it was done. Meanwhile, see how...

Live 11.1 is here, with Apple M1 support and more – here’s how to get the most out of it

For a lot of users, it'll just mean the splash screen goes from pink to gray. But Live 11.1 is...

Review: nanobox adds palm-sized synthesis to 1010music’s cute gear line

It's the perfect follow-up to 1010's ultra-compact blackbox sampler and bluebox mixer. Now nanobox adds pint-sized synthesis to the range,...

When Tehran lights up Köln, pull up your experimental electronic caravan and celebrate

Here comes the twist – in a year in which so much of the adventurous end of the electronic music...