Deep dive on UNO Synth Pro: IK Multimedia’s compact dual-filter analog synths
Don’t overlook the UNO Synth Pro. This digital-analog hybrid synth is accessible and full of character - and it’s discounted...
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“Words become plastic”: Stephen Mallinder, Cabaret Voltaire founder, polymath, interviewed
He's been a vocalist (as a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire), a lyricist, a vocalist. But if you know the...
Emmanuel De La Paix’s Terre brûlée, scorched-earth post-ambient: interview, video premiere
Pulsing with electronic punctuation, fuzzy layers and distorted pianos across expansive introspective surfaces, Emmanuel De La Paix on Terre brûlée...
Mutable Instruments swan song: end of production leaves huge legacy, one last Plaits update
What a way to go out. Mutable Instruments discontinues production this month, but leaves a reshaped modular landscape, a real...
Herb Deutsch, educator and Moog synth co-inventor, has died
Herb Deutsch, one of the leading figures in the early development of the synthesizer and a lifelong educator, died on...
Support Dirar Kalash, experimental multi-instrumentalist behind Sonic Liberation Front
Palestine-born, Berlin-based artist Dirar Kalash faced an accident after a gig without health insurance. But an outpouring of support is...
The very best Black Friday and Cyber Week deals on music and motion – a running list
It's the most on-sale time of the year. You know the drill - but here are some select picks out...
Prequel Tapes works through trauma in meticulous sound and choreography [trigger warning]
The Golden Cage is a deeply intimate work by Berlin-based Prequel Tapes, who strings together electronic sounds and voice to...
Circuit bending progenitor Reed Ghazala has new ideas to share – with invisible rays
"Father of Circuit Bending" Reed Ghazala isn't done transforming musical bending techniques. For starters, there's this magnetic-patch, chip-talk, chance-based aleatron...
Premiere – Noise in the Key of Life: Lukasz Polowczyk meditates on music and listening
A funeral with violins, a hospital, a broken piano, a diesel engine, a farewell - artist Łukasz Polowczyk's new work...
