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The Bob Moog Foundation Archives just added 4489 items from inMusic

Peter Kirn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:52:05 +0000

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 images to give you a glimpse.

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Last call on these summer sales on gear and software

Peter Kirn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:54:26 +0000

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.

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Birds on guitars, in the zebra finch sound art of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

Peter Kirn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:45:28 +0000

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 Sète).

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Detroit legend John Jammin Collins has passed

Peter Kirn — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:28:39 +0000

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 moved onto another plane.

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The delicate, tiny sound machines in the world of Kuro Kasetto

Peter Kirn — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:23:09 +0000

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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In Expressive E’s Noisy 2.6 synth, expression everywhere, MIDI to MPE

Peter Kirn — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:02:15 +0000

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.

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Turn up Jaymie Silk’s 2-volume Reclaim the Music and Transform Ur Mind

Peter Kirn — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:40:32 +0000

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. "909, 808, percussions, groove." You should check his calls to activism, too.

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Digital Arabic Maqām Archive and open-source MIDI plug-in now available

Peter Kirn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:36:02 +0000

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 major software tuning formats.

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Free BEAST Repeat for Ableton Live is so good, you’ll switch genres to IDM

Peter Kirn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:18:33 +0000

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. And it's free?!

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Let’s enjoy some Square Enix game soundtracks in acoustic covers

Peter Kirn — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:03:32 +0000

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.

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