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Firefighters are battling Los Angeles wildfires today as winds threaten in the next 24 hours. Amidst evacuations and air quality issues, life continues for local residents, including preparation for NAMM and Buchla meetups later this month. But it also requires healing. For...

Games weave art and empathy in unique ways: gaming is at its heart a medium about perspective and action. The story of developer Rasheed Abueideh is a model for telling stories and for what happens when people step up and provide support. When conventional publishers deemed...

DIY and instrument-making can be about tinkering and inventing. But it can also be about finding one instrument for your performance and iterating over the long term. That's what Kacper Ziemianin, aka Ctrl Freq, has done with this 'Light-Sequencer' instrument (LSe) - and...

The home of so many in the music and musical instruments community has been consumed by fire. Friends and colleagues in the Los Angeles area, you're on our minds this week; I hope you've gotten to safety. And we can't mince words: planetwide, every second of this climate...

Roger Linn didn't just develop the LinnStrument and then check out. He's provided a steady stream of musical advice both of his own makings and from the device's user community - all while being a driving force in MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE). The latest video is a...

Ukrainian games house GSC Game World lost a team member in the front lines and had to face up to Russian disinformation to produce their blockbuster hit game in the middle of a full-scale war. They also packed their game full of Ukrainian music – including electronic music...

We’re barely into the new year, but already, we’ve got two untimely passings that leave significant holes in the world of electronic music: Dax Pierson and Árni Grétar Jóhannesson. The post RIP Dax Pierson, Árni Grétar Jóhannesson aka Futuregrapher appeared first...

The tracker revival is here. But to make it happen, we need a tracker in every pocket. Don't worry: you can absolutely recession-proof trackers, even if you're wedded to using handheld hardware. The post Maker Monday: DIY your own tracker hardware for around $50-$75 appeared ...

It's 'yo dawg'/Inception time to the max. Not to be outdone by 4ms MetaModule, Autodafe has put all of VCV Rack (specifically its Cardinal fork) into a Eurorack module. Along the way, you'll learn how to set up Cardinal on Raspberry Pi for any hardware project you might...

Minimal Audio's Current, more than even most sprawling soft synths, is as much a sound creation laboratory as it is an instrument. Current 2.0 and online updates helped realize their original vision, and it stands out as a highlight of last year - and one to dig in deeper in ...

Soundhack creator Tom Erbe joins musician-synthesist Sarah Belle Reid for a fascinating dive into the Make Noise Spectraphon, spectral animation, and Buchla history. IYKYK - but if you don't know, that's one Hell of a spectral historical West Coast trip. The post Go watch...

Winter is far from over. Or, erm, summer; I don't know which hemisphere you're in. You need to prep for what's ahead by stocking up on music gear and software now. I am the voice of your Gear/Plugin Acquisition Syndrome, and this is my hand-picked list. The post It’s not too...