In “Piano,” John Object captures emotional realities of war in Ukraine
"Piano" is bookended by sketches on a partly-ruined piano in a war zone - messages over an army radio heard...
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A deep compilation to aid in rebuilding Beirut, made from sounds of construction
Bandcamp Friday pick. Beirut's stellar label System Revival earlier this year put together a must-hear compilation of music with a...
Watch Hexorcismos make AI performative and personal in this live show
In contrast to big data, automation, and bland prompts, artist Moisés Horta Valenzuela (Hexorcismos) is making machine learning into a...
Dreamlike solitude from Johnstown PA, in Nondi_’s Flood City Trax
In Nondi_'s music world, fuzzy reveries of grooves emerge as if half-remembered from sleep, sometimes insistent and raw, sometimes fading...
7 Techniques to Spark New Track Ideas for Musicians and Producers
Have you ever found yourself in front of your production setup, ready to lay down a fresh track, only to...
In 1986, John Cage met Sun Ra at Coney Island’s Sideshows by the Seashore
Let it all hang out. Put together that live set you want. Make a "meeting" happen, "not a planned performance."...
Moments fragile, brutal, and sublime, in three new releases from Iran’s Zabte Sote label
Zabte Sote is a wellspring of inspiration, not because of some fetishization of Iran or least of all its pain,...
Mille is a 1000-oscillator swarming droning synth to delight your ears and hurt your eyes
Composer-developer Giorgio Sancristoforo continues to deliver complete hardware sound laboratory experiences in standalone software form for your Mac or PC....
Kyoka on the new Ableton Push; approaching Push as an instrument
How does the new Ableton Push perform as an instrument - with those new expressive pads? We invited artist Kyoka...
Dark, eerie, modular sonic adventures from Tehran and the Caspian shore: bernisaun
Sound recordist, producer, audiovisual producer, and modular experimentalist Behrooz Farahani is spinning deep ambient excursions live in modular. And sometimes...
