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Canilla’s love ballads sing from code and dismantled accordions; LP first listen here

The ruins of fractured accordions are reanimated with hybrid mechanical-digital constructions, to sing the imagined love ballads of a wounded...

Futuristic AV, EPs from Mexico’s Interspecifics, CNDSD, Iván Abreu

It's a dark and uncertain time across Latin America, so sending some serious love to everyone. All the more reason...

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...