peter KIRN

Musician and journalist. I make cdm.link, a home for electronic music and expressive technology, work on the #meeblip synthesizer, and I'm a composer / media artist / DJ and activist. Lebanese-American heritage, based in Berlin.

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pkirn_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink

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2026-04-27 14:03:06 UTC

Free emulations of 80s Alesis MIDIVERB II, MicroVerb, in plug-in form -- and why that's so cool:
https://cdm.link/free-emulations-of-80s-alesis-midiverb-ii-microverb-in-plug-in-form/
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2026-04-17 10:40:59 UTC

Absynth 6.1 is out.
As usual, Absynth is deep once you dig in. So here's a detailed explanation of how LFO phase and retriggering works in 6.1 (including a v1 feature come back to life!), what auto trigger is, and how the audio modulator works.
https://cdm.link/absynth-6-1-audio-modulator-lfo-retrigger/
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2026-03-24 14:05:01 UTC

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)
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2026-03-20 17:22:15 UTC

Stillness and radical presence: Mercurial Cycles mix and an album revisited, from Hüma Utku.
https://cdm.link/stillness-and-radical-presence-huma-utku/
It's tough to find music that can be comforting without being escapist, that fits the moment. Hüma Utku's mix and album for me fit that perfectly. Essential.
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2026-02-20 10:16:06 UTC

Amidst a lot of theoretical discussions -- anyone out there using Zulip for a self-hosted community?
I'd love to see an actual use case. Despite the clear privacy crisis with ID requirements at Discord, most people I know are sticking with it -- even those working on open source-projects.
Feel free to tag anyone you might know, too.
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2026-01-27 14:02:40 UTC

Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency.
Not remotely what you want to see. Will keep tabs on this one in a tough time. Details:
https://cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
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2026-01-08 13:43:13 UTC

What really happened at MTV on New Year's Eve, why the demise of MTV started in 1992, what we gained and lost -- and how to get switch on 33,000 videos worth of MTV right now.
https://cdm.link/forget-channel-closures-watch-every-decade-of-mtv-music-videos-online/
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2025-10-16 21:07:37 UTC

Inside Kyiv’s hackerspace, a growing DIY synth and experimental noise scene.
https://cdm.link/kyiv-diy/
Round up with SITKA, Happy Nerding, Kaximia, more. @
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2025-08-21 20:41:26 UTC

Give #Faircamp a folder of audio. A few minutes later, get a complete static website with your music, podcasts, whatever. That includes playlists, RSS, and a Web player, downloads, third-party links, purchases, and unlocks. No coding. And it’s free.
https://cdm.link/faircamp-intro/
Long overdue - @npub1zx5…d279 and community have done amazing work, through the latest 1.5 release. And there's a lot more...
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2025-08-21 18:17:41 UTC

Today is a day of action for Palestine. Here's eight hours of sounds and music, including some from a few long-time friends of the site, plus resources to apply pressure in ways that could change the situation on the ground.
https://cdm.link/listen-to-8-hours-of-sound-dedicated-to-palestine-and-act/
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2025-07-08 16:56:37 UTC

Breaking - Renoise, the powerful tracker-based DAW, now has a new open-source live coding environment for generating phrases called pattrn.
If you ever wanted to code @npub194c…3acj notation inside a tracker, welp...
There's a lot more, too; let me break it down. (Mac, Windows, Linux, Linux ARM and RasPi)
https://cdm.link/renoise-3-5-phrase-scripting/
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2025-06-30 18:04:47 UTC

"You in love with a bot and mad at it."
New LP from Public Enemy is pay what you will on Bandcamp now.
Needed to hear this right now, somehow. They've got a ton to say about ageism, AI, Big Tech, and why OG hip hop saved the Yankees from their '73 low point.
Maybe it's also having ABULD3EES in town from Jerusalem.
https://cdm.link/public-enemy-returns/
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2025-06-16 15:23:26 UTC

Iranian music scene to world: civilians are under attack
I've been back and forth with friends in the last days. The message has been clear: don't be silent, and don't let the media ignore death and destruction in Iran. Round-up with resources, what artists are saying, and eyewitness reports.
https://cdm.link/iranian-music-scene-to-world-civilians-are-under-attack/
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2025-04-23 15:19:57 UTC

"Funk was a genre of sonic color, a genre that crossed oceans, a genre rooted in radical joy and inclusivity. We Want The Funk! makes clear that Black art is not just expression — it’s liberation."
- Black Enterprise review. Full documentary is online:
https://cdm.link/funk-music-history-documentary/
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2025-04-09 10:51:43 UTC

Free and #opensource @ardourdaw check in - what's been cooking in 8.x, what's coming in 9 revealed, and some excellent tutorials and features. (Voice-activated recording anyone?) Mac/Windows/Linux:
https://cdm.link/ardour-9-is-coming-and-8-is-great/
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2025-01-07 14:05:59 UTC

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Yep, that's my bread and butter. Oh I wonder what the actual origin of the phrase bread and butter i

2024-12-02 13:31:19 UTC

Mood Machine, Liz Pelly’s book on Spotify, will be a must-read - here's why, with tons of links to her past work. https://cdm.link/mood-machine-liz-pelly/
Can't wait to read this one, and we should all be talking about how to build alternative approaches.
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2024-10-31 12:59:20 UTC

In Beirut and abroad, critical aid for Lebanon: music, events, interview with community kitchen Nation Station. Updates, events to catch, how to give. https://cdm.link/in-beirut-and-abroad-critical-aid-for-lebanon-music-events-interview/
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2024-10-28 00:22:31 UTC

20 years of posting on CDM. This was before Twitter, before YouTube (even independent YouTube), before Google Reader, while Facebook was still TheFacebook.
The point is - time to think about *after* all those things, too. So hello, Mastodon.
https://cdm.link/20-years-of-cdm-posts/
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2024-09-29 14:42:35 UTC

Vienna area esp. - there's still time to apply to the open call for our performance lab at Sonic Territories! Unique access to fabrication and performance/movement space - see these creations by co-host Uli. Ends tonight Sunday... https://www.sonic-territories.at/festival2024/open-call/
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2024-08-28 09:59:49 UTC

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heh, I think now you're back in the 90s. Ah so you did all of this in uxn? This looks fantastic...

2024-08-27 19:39:13 UTC

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okay I swooned! that's beautiful... even if I'm afraid that now early 2000s nostalgia is a thing, because ... yikes

2024-04-21 18:36:42 UTC

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That seems an excellent question - I'd guess the metrics I'd look to would be Bitwig and Ardour (Paul Davis), covering the proprietary and open use cases pretty well.