Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women
Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...
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Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women
Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...
Mensla’s MS-2 is a great-sounding FM synth with the safety protocols switched off
Over 60 years after its invention, FM synthesis is still full of surprises. And that's what makes the free MS-2...
Meng Qi’s new Wingie2 firmware is inspired by the late Rob Hordijk’s Blippoo Box
Dutch designer Rob Hordijk inspired many instrument creators before his death last fall. Meng Qi is one of those moved...
Autechre dropped a 5.5 hour mix to celebrate the re-release of Artificial Intelligence compilation
It's been just over 30 years since Autechre released Artificial Intelligence on Warp. That's getting a fresh re-release - and...
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...
Finding lost intimacy and freedom, in the collaborative hacklab at CTM Festival
In tenuous times of war, disease, and uncertainty, our MusicMakers Hacklab program in May at CTM Festival held a special...
Kyoka is imagining new worlds, playing machines, and exploring neurology: interview
Kyoka, the innovative producer and artist (Raster-Noton), has electrodes attached to her head with good reason. In collaboration with neurologists,...
Sri Lanka – ශ්රී ලංකාව – benefit compilation in eerie, delicate drones and ambient sounds
The famines born of corruption continue, planetwide. It's hard to find words sometimes, but the latest release of artists banded...
MVMNTS: Vibrating, shuddering sounds from Hiro Kone x Roxy Farman benefit Pakistan relief
Welded sheet metal and springs have a contact-mic dialog with modular synths in a chillingly brilliant EP by Hiro Kone...
Lose yourself in this trippy video and Mangled Dreams – WDE x The Microgram
Starting with a cut titled "Birth," find yourself in lo-fi, acid-washed hallucinations and a bath of music. It's a lo-fi,...
