Phil Niblock, unstoppable composer and artist, remembered
Adventurous composer, musician, filmmaker, and conceptual artist Phil Niblock remained active right through his later life - an embodiment of...
Stories
Christmas in mourning, in Bethlehem and Beirut, and music beyond
"Words are missing to convey our outrage, our sadness, and our feeling of helplessness," say organizers. Instead, Bethlehem in occupied...
Tuning, polyphonic expression: Black Corporation’s Roman Filippov
The evolution of music is intertwined with the design and capabilities of instruments. After several decades of more constrained tuning...
Live 12 will have an interactive companion site exploring tuning
Ableton Live 12 will ship with new integrated tuning support -- but there's more. An interactive website will explore the...
Ableton Live 12: a guide to everything that’s new
Ableton has announced Live 12 today, with new tools for creating sounds, exploring musical ideas, and playing with the software...
Making Max for Live Devices work on Push and Push 3 standalone
With Ableton Push 3, Max for Live effects, instruments, sequencers, and other tools can work on standalone hardware - even...
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...
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...
