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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...

Gaza kids need a skate park and equipment; a powerful music compilation has come to their aid

Skating, like music, can be an escape and a DIY means to healing. "No ComplY" is a new compilation from...

Here’s Ben Burtt breaking down every single iconic sound design from Star Wars, film by film

If you love sound, it's impossible not to be enchanted by the work of Ben Burtt. His approach to sound...

Kitbashing, by ABADIR and Nicolò Cervello, is AV subversion of endless algorithmic scrolling

"Kitbashing" is an AV protest, a hard-hitting burst of fresh air, as producer ABADIR and media artist Nicolò Cervello are...

Brahmaputra to AI: debashis sinha on practice, body, humanness, and his double release

Composer, producer, and percussionist debashis sinha delved into spiritual spaces of his ancestral India in a double-release from late last...