What MIDI Thru really means – and how can it help keep your gear in sync
MIDI starts with the obvious - in and out, easily understood. But then it throws us this curveball of a...
Stories
Premiere: In new kāve LP, pre-classical Persian verse meets the machine
Machine Learning Poetry, the new LP from Tehran's kāve, is not pastoral or pretty. It's 10th-12 century poetry made into...
“Exist is a feeling”: Organizers talk about their festival after losing Odai Masri
Palestinian-global festival and music platform Exist reached London this month at Cafe OTO, the latest triumph of adventurous programming and...
You die so many times: you need more of electronic pioneer Halim El-Dabh
"We evolve. Whatever I'm doing, I'm evolving - I'm learning more and more every time I do the passage." Egyptian-American...
What the future of the NUC platform means for Ableton Push standalone
One of the big features of Ableton Push is its standalone mode and upgradeability, enabled by the Intel-developed NUC platform....
Playing the space of Kraftwerk: Rabon Aibo’s sound art at Atonal
In fragmented materials and process-based performance interventions, this year's Atonal exhibition seems to breathe life into debris, a deconstruction of...
How to support relief in Morocco and Libya: resources
This month has brought unimaginable suffering atop thousands of deaths in both Morocco and Libya. To readers whose communities and...
Independence Day: don’t-miss experimental releases by two Ukrainian women
There's a horrible myth that difficult times produce great music - the sort of thing said by people in privileged...
First look: Sample 2.0 puts Serato’s stem separation into your DAW
It’s sampling and stem separation in one. It’s interface has some DJ deck-style simplicity, but it’s for serious production. It’s...
Arturia goes 303: Acid V bassline synth hands-on – all the tweaks and extras
An Arturia emulation of the classic Roland TB-303 was all but inevitable. But with plenty of bassline plug-ins out there,...
