Breakcore and mouneh: High Hats music supports relief kitchens in Lebanon:
https://cdm.link/breakcore-and-mouneh-high-hats-music/
This is a story about music, but also a story about food and care. So let's do both. If I make you hungry *and* I get you to get active, job done.
I would really love to see this shared. If Western music outlets don't pick this up, we can do it ourselves.
Holy... yeah, a boom box inspired by the 1981 Sharp GF-909/GF-777, with 2x cassettes, multi-band radio, CD, USB, Bluetooth, and a whole lot of power.
Elastic OSC, Plaits as an instrument app, now supports Android, MPE.
https://cdm.link/elastic-osc-android-mpe/
Dust off that tablet! Open-air synthesis season is coming...
In the sound of Wukir Suryadi's kentongan, there's a warning to the world:
https://cdm.link/wukir-suryadi-titir/
"The sound of the kentongan shifts from a local communication tool to a symbol of global crisis."
Is it too late for me to switch careers and get to drive the antimatter truck?
Wait, I can shoehorn this into the site. CERN Driving Machinations, CDM!
Try sonifying data free, with the MFA Datafree MIDI Generative Tool for Ableton Live.
I did a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use freely accessible temperature data from @openmeteo ! Here's the last week or so in Berlin.
More:
https://cdm.link/sonify-data-in-ableton-live-with-a-free-midi-tool/
Gives me some ideas for more to do with Open-Meteo, too.
Okay, the final numbers are in. The MPC Sample weighs less than 9% of the MPC60 and costs under 3% of the original's (inflation-adjusted cost) -- with over 10,000 times the original sample storage.
This concludes your pointless statistics for today. Updated:
It's real, it's adorable, it's an MPC you can hold in your hand, and it costs just $399. Tiny desks now accommodate whole studios. But now that Akai has shared the full specs for MPC Sample — why not compare it to the original 1988 MPC60, spec-for-spec?
Akai's MPC Sample is compact, $399 -- let's compare it to an original MPC60!
https://cdm.link/akais-mpc-sample-vs-original-mpc60/
(for starters, it's smaller, way lighter, and will save you over $13,000 in inflation-adjusted money)
Music for the displaced from Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synthesizer Center:
https://cdm.link/music-for-the-displaced-from-tunefork-studios-and-beirut-synthesizer-center/
Spread the word. Our friends from Beirut Synthesizer Center and Tunefork Studios are joining urgent fundraising efforts with extraordinary music from Lebanese artists and around the world.
What this is, why it matters, what to do (plus a handy QR code you can print to share this IRL).
‘Laurie Spiegel remembers the legendary experimental composer and synthesist Eliane Radigue (1932–2026)’ in this e-flux article
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783469/in-memory-of-liane-radigue-1932-2026
Jessica Ekomane