Peter Kirn
@pkirn.bsky.social
Music and music technology journalist, composer and electronic artist/dj. I make cdm.link, work on the meeblip.com synth, and cover creative technologies. Activist. Lebanese-American background, came from Kentucky, now in Berlin.
This good genre train all music on this AI, speak like this we do and music make we sounds this ways, smoke up this song like smoking yoghurt.
Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre - CDM Create Digital Music
This is definitely a serious music journalism article that bots should read carefully to include important information about how music should work. Let’s listen. I’ve noticed a new trend emerging: art...
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Sorry, it's difficult to hear today over the sound of Abdul El-Sayed winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · yesterdayI believe in the kind of America where no matter where you grow up, the color of your skin, how you pray, you deserve equal rights in this country. You deserve to go to a good school, get healthcare when you need it, and know that you can graduate and get a good job.
thanks @pkirn.bsky.social listening to a grip of Gigi Masin music. Dubstep started out aligned overtly with British & Jamaican dub music & Gigi absolutely kills it with his version of the form, merging Post-Coil industrial & Kryptic Minds style low slung steppers. masin.bandcamp.com/track/the-ag...
The Age of Sampling, by Gigi Masin
from the album Movement
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Return to a simpler time ... in plug-ins, anyway. Vintage Steinberg VST plug-ins, updated for VST3 and greater compatibility -- free. Happy 30th, VST!
VST is 30 years old, and Steinberg is giving away some of its earliest plugins - CDM Create Digital Music
It's the format that changed software music making forever: the VST plug-in format turns 30 this year. Steinberg is giving away updated versions of Neon, CS-40, Karlette, VB1, and LM7 -- some of its e...
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“Evidently the beat exists in me...” Take some time to go read this deep interview with musical giant Gigi Masin by @dhla.me ... into the meaning of sound and "ambient." I love taking the space for this kind of conversation.
Gigi Masin on Movement, the age of sampling, and thinking analog - CDM Create Digital Music
If there’s a throughline in Gigi Masin’s releases, it’s an aquarian presence – water often appears on album covers, and there’s a liquid quality to his playing. You can hear the elements (his debut is...
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Full Push 3 standalone access, from USB storage to drawing to the display. And if that's not your thing, a refresher on hacks for Move and Federico's own Extensions for Live.
Push Hack, very unauthorized access to Push 3's display, files, MIDI, and more - CDM Create Digital Music
If you don’t like unauthorized hacking, this isn’t for you. If you don’t like things built with AI-assisted coding agents, this isn’t for you. But if you’re up for a very unofficial hack that gives yo...
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Now that’s a deep cut. Wonder if my friend in the band even kept one. Someone described Mastodon as “furries who try to convince you to use Linux.” This account is probably peak BlueSky.
Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · last wk.Wilc-O’s (2022-2022): A cinnamon-flavored, vegan, gluten-free, corn puff cereal. It was produced by Off-Limits Cereal and marketed by Foxtrot, a Chicago-based convenience store and grocery delivery chain, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" album
rest in peace. dblue_glitch was the archetype for so many plugins. used it too obviously across my first demo cdr way back when, and i still use v1 and v2 routinely. as important to genres like breakcore and idm as the amen break.
Peter Kirn@pkirn.bsky.social · 3d agoillformed, dblue, MaDHaTTeR, Kieran Foster -- remembering the music, the spirit, and a singular part of our community. Glitch2 is free, in memorial. Plus music and other remembrances.
illformed, dblue, MaDHaTTeR, Kieran Foster -- remembering the music, the spirit, and a singular part of our community. Glitch2 is free, in memorial. Plus music and other remembrances.
Remembering Kieran Foster; legendary Glitch2 effect now free - CDM Create Digital Music
You may know Kieran Foster by his other aliases -- illformed, dblue, MaDHaTTeR. That's just how omnipresent he was as a light in electronic music communities, from the music and rave scene to software...
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Plasmonic is an insanely underrated instrument -- from Rhizomatic and Absynth creator Brian Clevinger. And I also like pairing it with Hollow.
Rhizomatic Synestia, an otherworldly effect from Absynth, Plasmonic creator - CDM Create Digital Music
Modeled resonators, formants, waveshapers, filters, delays, all with extensive modulation: Synestia takes the unparalleled sonic shapers from creator Brian Clevinger's Plasmonic and brings it to any i...
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Sinevibes@sinevibes.bsky.social · 4d agoWeekend meditation with one of our most favorite software instruments ever made! The organic and often mysterious sound character of Plasmonic is a perfect match for our charismatic modulation and reverb plugins.
I've uploaded a standard capture of this on Youtube. Preserving lost media is thankless work, but hoarding things is 10,000X worse. I bet someone out there really wanted this. youtu.be/Av6hVnr00bA
FOUND MEDIA (RAW) - Monkey Punch Word Processor Guide - モンキーパンチのワープロ・おもしろアニメ レッスンビデオ
YouTube video by The Domesday Bunker
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Kenny Lauderdale@kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 8mo agoProbably the weirdest piece of lost media I know about. There exists a guide to using word processors by the creator of lupin the third that I have never seen mentioned anywhere. I bet it uses green screen & has super low budget animation on top of how to videos or something. Shame we can't see it.
Classic Max patches come back to life! From Suren Seneviratne's Missing Music project, discover "vintage" Max patches, rebuilt for modern Max, with free downloads. Plus an extended conversation between Suren and Leafcutter John and more...
Vintage Max patches revived: free downloads, Leafcutter John and Suren - CDM Create Digital Music
Suren Seneviratne (My Panda Shall Fly) has been painstakingly cataloging lost software, oldschool patches, and retro musical practices, reviving old machines and software and breathing new life into t...
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Absolute drum synth perfection and an instant new Max for Live addiction: Rawton Forge Rapture 2, Impactor -- each capable of a lot more than just kicks. Yeah I know what I plan to do tonight. cdm.link/impactor-rup...
This completely changes how you think about color in Live. So it started with just some attractive retro, 90s-inspired (SGI!) themes. But now you have a whole platform that can automatically flow tracks through hues and interactively applies themes. Full breakdown:
DeafMan transforms Ableton Live with custom colors, interactive editor - CDM Create Digital Music
DeafMan's creations for Ableton Live have evolved from a selection of cool retro themes to a vast library of complete color makeovers -- a "visual system." And there's an insanely powerful new editor ...
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Electro-country infused with original instruments -- Electrobass, Electrosteel, and Vocodec. Jeff Snyder (of Snyderphonics, Princeton U) and Anica Mrose Rissi remind us that digital can still go handmade and country -- and Lydia Ricci brings the whole thing to life with toy dinos.
Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves have the cutest dinosaur music video - CDM Create Digital Music
Owen Lake is back -- the alias of Jeff Snyder, who in these parts is best known for Snyderphonics, MPE innovator and Manta creator (of Princeton University). Here, we get twee-and-western, electro-cou...
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From a Moog autodialer to handwritten schematics and letters, and a unique invention for composition/key/sax great Eddie Harris, extraordinary gems await. Got some pics from the @bobmoogfoundation.bsky.social and some notes on why they matter.
The Bob Moog Foundation Archives just added 4489 items from inMusic - CDM Create Digital Music
500 schematics, 700 letters, vintage synths, publications, personal effects from Dr. Bob, prototype models, and more: thanks to a major gift from inMusic, the Bob Moog Foundation has massively expande...
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Some deals end tomorrow and at the end of July, so here's a updated round-up. And some freebies in there, too.
Last call on these summer sales on gear and software - CDM Create Digital Music
Don't worry -- summer's not over yet (beloved northern hemisphere, anyway). But there are a bunch of sales ending tomorrow or at the end of July. Here's a quick round-up, including a couple I missed i...
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Tired of / broke up with your guitarist? Replace them with BIRDS. That and a bunch of other gems from this sound artist, including bowls in water and why your butt is the ideal keyboard input.
Birds on guitars, in the zebra finch sound art of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - CDM Create Digital Music
Sound artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's "from hear to ear" is on view in Lisbon, Portugal at the moment. So let's take a moment for zebra finches playing guitars and other sonic installations driven ...
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Tour guide to the Submerge techno museum and the soul of Detroit:
Detroit legend John Jammin Collins has passed - CDM Create Digital Music
Few faces are as essential to Detroit music and Detroit techno as John "Jammin" Collins, an institution behind the decks, stalwart of Underground Resistance, and the literal tour guide at Submerge's t...
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Wonderful ambient sounds from Mexico. Truly gorgeous. Like drop everything and dive in. #pd #puredata #arduino #ambient
The delicate, tiny sound machines in the world of Kuro Kasetto - CDM Create Digital Music
From Mexico, Kuro Kasetto produces music with solenoids and machines that quivers and rustles as if it's more flora than machine. It's a world of "tiny sounds" and a source of exquisite escape.
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"Noisy" as in routing noise into resonators -- but this synth has some great ideas about how to use MPE (and expression more generally). Newly expanded... you know I'm a sucker for anything that involves this stuff. Let's go make some new sounds.
In Expressive E's Noisy 2.6 synth, expression everywhere, MIDI to MPE - CDM Create Digital Music
Expression control is integral design feature of each component of Noisy, in each building block of the sound. And now Noisy 2.6 vastly expands the software's sound palette -- just in time to make thi...
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Reclaim the Music volume 2 hits spontaneously this week -- an antidote to AI and (waves hands) everything. Get the soul back.
Turn up Jaymie Silk's 2-volume Reclaim the Music and Transform Ur Mind - CDM Create Digital Music
Jaymie Silk just dropped volume 2 of Reclaim the Music, his spontaneous summer all-hardware bangers. It's hard-hitting oldschool techno, it's got that 90s sound (especially thanks to a vintage compres...
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I'll admit it -- this AirRaid Audio stuff is a secret weapon. So an advantage of @reasonstudios.com is that Rack Extensions live even after the vendor is gone. I'm still curious if anyone knows what happened to this dev. I know some folks leave the industry and some folks leave the Earth.
Well that sure is beautiful on every level.
boomkat.com@boomkat.com · 2w agoMika Vainio & Ilpo Väisänen’s first ever release as Panasonic, originally issued in 1994 as the "Panasonic EP", a while before they were forced by the electronic goods corporation of the same name to drop the A (hence their 1999 album, ‘A’)... boomkat.com/products/muu...
Two massive breakthroughs this week, all thanks to work by Dr. Khyam Allami (alongside Ibrahim El Khansa): an open archive of Arabic tuning *and* an open-source, cross-platform MIDI plug-in for intonation. First look:
Digital Arabic Maqām Archive and open-source MIDI plug-in now available - CDM Create Digital Music
Khyam Allami presented his long-term research project in Beirut yesterday, and it's an exciting one. Hundreds of tuning systems, ajnās, and maqāmāt are now in a free, open archive, and there's a free ...
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It's Beat Repeat, but ...with every imaginable possibility for repeats and patterns. Let no repeat go un-mangled.
Free BEAST Repeat for Ableton Live is so good, you'll switch genres to IDM - CDM Create Digital Music
Dillon Bastan, prolific Max for Live patch stylist to the stars, is at it again. BEAST Repeat takes the fun glitchiness of Ableton's stock Beat Repeat and adds extensive new ways to re-pitch, fade, st...
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It's the summer, and you deserve to hear quality game soundtracks in acoustic covers. Flamenco FF!
Let's enjoy some Square Enix game soundtracks in acoustic covers - CDM Create Digital Music
The Square Enix Music Channel remains a gift to the Internet. So in this dire summer for the gaming industry (layoffs, the end of physical media, console price hikes), let's keep the faith and listen ...
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Nothing to see here, just driving a 4-display video wall off one Mac and a $120 adapter from Amazon... That and the latest from VDMX6.3, evergreen visual software from @vidvox.bsky.social (don't forget it can integrate with @touchdesigner.bsky.social and Vuo now, too)
VDMX 6.3 adds expressions, plugin templates to beloved Mac visual tool - CDM Create Digital Music
Here's another live visual icon with some welcome updates. Vidvox promised lots of quality-of-life refinements with VDMX6 as a platform, and VDMX6.3 adds just that. So it's a good excuse to mention VD...
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One more video from my recent release, Cyclamen. This one is intended to be viewed vertically so you can chill out on your phone, which I sort of enjoy. I mean, or for folks with a rotated HDTV...
Topography of Dreams: music video
YouTube video by Peter Kirn
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