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• Interview: Jon Hopkins Talks Live, Studio Process, Habit, Instinct 1 Septiembre 2010
  Jon Hopkins performs live at the ICA. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Matt Biddulph. Classically trained as a pianist, musician and producer Jon Hopkins has one of the richest resumes in electronic music. He’s a frequent collaborator with Brian Eno, wand has worked with artists like Coldplay (who featured his music on their last album), Tunng, David Holmes, [...] […]
  Peter Kirn
• Critter and Gitari’s $150, Battery-Powered Pocket Piano 1 Septiembre 2010
  Pocket Piano from Critter and Guitari on Vimeo. Apologies to the immense powers of lumbering studio gear, but a new lifestyle may be forming around unique, mobile, small, simple synths. The latest entry comes from none other than Critter and Gitari, some of our favorite electronics designers, based in Philadelphia. This time, they’re touting a [...] […]
  Peter Kirn
• BOSS Pedal Sketch: BOSS Stompboxes as Free iPhone Download 1 Septiembre 2010
  The BOSS Pedal Sketch application, a free download today for iPhone and iPod touch, probably isn’t what you think it is – but it is a novel concept in mobile apps, and a sign of some of the new ideas to be explored. If your first thought was that this is a handheld set of [...] […]
  Peter Kirn
• Roland Round-up: A Mobile Juno Workstation, Realistic Piano Models, More 1 Septiembre 2010
  Roland dropped a slew of news announcements today, from new keyboards to software. There’s a new JUNO-Gi, which takes Roland’s economical synth workstation and adds multitrack recording and BOSS effects. The virtual piano lineup has all been remade in the image of the V-Piano, with more realistic sampling tech. And there’s a set of offerings [...] […]
  Peter Kirn
• In Photos: Discovering Sound Making, Electronics at Culturefix NYC 31 Agosto 2010
  Photos above: Jennifer Meagher, with additional photography by myself. Handmade Music found a new home on New York’s Lower East Side, at Culturefix, an electronics boutique cum gallery, bar, and tapas. The philosophy of this event has long been to simply open the doors, letting a community of people come together, make some noise, and [...] […]
  Peter Kirn
• Soundhack Goodness, Now as Pd and Max External Objects 31 Agosto 2010
  Soundhack, the free audio tool for the Mac developed by audio wizard Tom Erbe, was long a beloved tool for doing strange and wonderful things for sound. It was followed by Spectral Shapers, Mac and Windows plug-ins that built on some of those ideas to do more “timbral morphing” with recorded audio. That includes “timbral [...] […]
  Peter Kirn