Stories

RIP Joel Chadabe, a leader of electronic music, interactive musicianship, and teaching

Joel Chadabe was a composer who helped launch the notion of interactive music systems and electronic music education as it...

At last, AAS deliver their new software modular generation: Multiphonics CV-1

Software modular is everywhere these days, but AAS are one of the developers who defined the genre. So a ground-up...

Music for orangutans, as Lyra Pramuk and Rani Jambak connect to Sumatra’s ecosystem

The music flows easily, entangled like vines, in a production constructed between Berlin and Indonesia over Zoom. But in these...

Splice Studio is free backup, version control, and collaboration for your DAW

A lot of the solutions you'll see for "collaborating" involve live jamming - even though that's not always what you...

Premiere: Dark Forces by The Allegorist plunges us into a gorgeously surreal, shamanistic future

It's the ultimate neo-futuristic concept album, complete with invented language for the lyrics ("Mondoneoh") and a protaganist known as Dragon...

Roland SYSTEM-8 synth is free to try in April – here’s why it’s a sound designer’s friend

Want that new synth feeling, but for free? That's the hybrid-vintage-modeled-new synth SYSTEM-8 this month from Roland - and we've...

Premiere: Olenc’s Particles takes a microscopic trip inside a cello string

Someone sucked Bochum, Duisburg, and Dortmund into a digital realm full of VR air pollution visualization - and in the...

Inside MTS-ESP, the new tuning tool from Oddsound and Aphex Twin

In a year that is finally bringing tuning into music tech headlines, here's a tool from ODDSound and Richard James...

Meemo Comma, interviewed: Lara Rix Martin’s deep-space futurist Jewish mysticism

"In the year 5781 humanity is ever closer to becoming a singular consciousness..." Sci-fi Jewish mysticism, anime-style - David Abravanel...