MAR10: Koji Kondo, Nintendo Mario Bros composer, talks music
Happy MAR1O aka "Mario Day" - which Nintendo is going forward with worldwide, various international date formats aside. Any day...
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A cheat sheet for all the wild things Noise Engineering’s Mimetic Digitalis sequencer does
This graphic will definitely not reassure folks who are afraid of Eurorack buttons that have multiple functions. But there is...
Learn modular MetaSounds in Unreal, free, and start thinking in procedural sound
It was once the stuff of dreams -- a patchable, modular environment for sound, synthesis, music, and procedural generative audio....
Here’s Jan Hammer in an 80s power suit rocking his Miami Vice theme on the Fairlight CMI
I swear this isn't a parody. It's just Jan Hammer going full-on Miami Vice to his own theme. There are...
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...
Click Tracker is free and open source cue maker – now with interactive display, pedals
Going on the grid is way more interesting when you compose the grid. Click Tracker, João Pais' free and open-source...
Ready to dive into Max’s Gen? New book focuses on sound generation and time
The latest book from Cycling '74 promises to make deep rabbit holes navigable. Its mission: to boldly reveal the algorithms...
Morton Subotnick, singing out to new generations, in film premiere this week
Born in LA, known for the West Coast, worked on the East Coast - but this week a stunning portrait...
Geometric meditation – peace in Arash Azadi’s “Healing Light Through Stained Glasses”
The topic keeps coming up - how to find mental peace and remain centered even in tumultuous times. Iranian-born composer...
A DIY violin with a spring reverb tank inside
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital instrument age - builders rediscovered novel acoustic and electroacoustic inventions,...
