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-country tunes with Anica Mrose Rissi that charmingly stick in your head, played par…

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 expanded its collection. It makes the history that much more whole. Here are some image…

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 in the last deals guide. The post Last call on these summer sales on gear and sof…

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 by elements from nature in the work of this artist from Nice, France (now in Sèt…

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 techno museum Exhibit 3000. We learned this weekend that the soul of Detroit move…

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. The post The delicate, tiny sound machines in the world of Kuro Kasetto appeared first…

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 this a worthy companion to Expressive E's own Osmose and Osmose CE. The post In Exp…

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 compressor), and it also has explosions of percussion that are true to African roots. "…

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 MIDI plug-in that lets you apply tunings (and tweak them by ear) across all majo…

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, stretch, twist, gate, pan, filter, and generally mangle per-pattern and per-beat.…

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 to NieR played on hammered dulcimer. This, too, shall pass. The post Let’s enjoy…

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 VDMX again, in case you'd tuned out for a bit. The post VDMX 6.3 adds expressions,…

The news can be numbing in all its violence and mindlessness, compounded by a chorus of shills across media and social media. Temp-Illusion, the duo formed in Tehran by Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi, cuts through those feelings like a knife. Then stick around for the deeply…

Sinevibes has been cheering on KORG gear as much as KORG themselves. Now they're bringing the entire range of 20+ effects to prologue, minilogue xd, NTS-1, NTS-1 mkII, NTS-3, and microKORG2 -- plus you get major sonic updates for the Eternal flanger and Shift frequency shifter. T…

MID continues to make cool stuff for Ableton Live, with a special emphasis on Ableton Move. Ever wished you could quickly chop up a track or other longer material into bar-aligned loops -- especially for easy triggering on Move? Move Loop Slicer does just that, and it's free now.…