Chromatic Adaptation

out now on Bandcamp - 
https://peterkirn.bandcamp.com/album/chromatic-adaptation

REmind me in the cherry days
MIxed up marigold petals
FAll like butter rain
SOlitude rests, olive on the tongue.
LAugh out the lapis tunes,
for TIme is an indigo tincture.
DOn't know what I'll do when you're gone,
bruises my words so purple,
REmaining in blood red remembrances there.
credits
released November 20, 2020

music on Moog Matriarch with some digital effects and strings.
Peter Kirn, November 2020.

Bandcamp

Chromatic Adaptation

Productions - Peter Kirn

Intimacy in a Fluid World [Kotä Records]

Mixes

Mix 01 for Underground Music Thailand - invited by Medium (Myroslaw Bytz) and republished here (tracklist below; pictured is downtown Manila, as there's a musical thread from there, too)

Mixed live, as always.

I was feeling an itch for frenetic dystopian futurism. I also think about some of the energy in the last longer-distance trips and missing artist friends from those journeys, so to find this combination, I mix from Japan to the Philippines to Indonesia, Taipei to LA to yes, Bangkok and Berlin. Those experimental artists compose those fragmentary narratives, with voices real, transformed, and synthetic. I hope that as electronic music evolves, we don't only listen to musical centers, but to the deeper connections we feel between one another. That includes the recent decentralized remix project from Senyawa; my contribution on L_KW is here. All this music is on Bandcamp for the digging and buying.

Check out UMT - was great to inaugurate their series with Medium:
https://umt.radio/

Unknown Signal - 地上から空中への送信機設備
Good, Bad, Baby, Horny - IVVVO
Lok (Abhi Meer Lokk Them Up Mix) - Sunju Hargun
AERO - Modulaw & Xzavier Stone
Tzimtzum - Meemo Comma
我呢世都唔會俾你 - Nerve & Betty Apple
Deleted Vapor - Xen Chron
Anti - ABADIR
Negative 7 - Drumskull
GATA DEL INFIERNO - $TRIPCLAB, BASECK
Get Up - Tenkitsune
Menuju Muara (Peter Kirn Remix) - Senyawa
anal columns - Five Star Hotel
Jeepney Drive-by (Revenge! Variation) - Tengal Soundtrack
Πρωινός καφές - Sazera
tandm w/ yuk. - glia
Ketakutan burung (Toxic Chicken remix) - Furchick
Chroma sky Kinnara : Desi La - CHROMA
Extant (feat. AOL) - Fax Gang
5 O (Official Audio) - Dasu 5 O
Emotion 1 - Reece Cox
TRIP - dolphinman journey

Underground Music Thailand - Mix

Written and produced by Peter Kirn

PETER KIRN
@peterkirn

7. CyborgEnabler - PETER KIRN

Live improvisations, totally dry / no FX no compression, with the new LXR-02 from Erica Synths and Sonic Potions. 1.2 firmware. Wrote about what I'm doing on CDM - https://cdm.link/2021/09/erica-synths-lxr-02-drum-machine-playtest-brutal-sounds-live-jams-1-2-firmware/

LXR-02 Harder and angrier

LXR-02 Speedy Techno

LXR-02 Slow Jam

Follow artist:
SC - https://soundcloud.com/peterkirn
FB - https://www.facebook.com/pkirnmusic

Abaddon Podcast 179 X Peter Kirn

A series of live jams with the new littleBits Synth Kit, a simple modular system made in collaboration with KORG using magnets to connect modules.

All recorded live with only light edits and no post-processing, directly into an iPad via Sonoma WireWorks' (very nice-sounding) GuitarJack and Sonoma StudioTrack.

In Etudes 1-3, you'll hear some variations on a two-oscillator synth with (MS-20) filter, envelope, and delay. (Etude #3 makes use of the noise source for modulation.)

Etude 4 is an example of a frequency modulation setup.

Etude 5 uses the random oscillator for percussion.

These use the step sequencer, occasionally triggered from the keyboard.

CC-licensed, so please feel free to download and sample! (I'll be sampling them into some songs.) Just send a note if you make something, as I'd love to hear it!

littleBits Synth Kit Etude #1

Into Darkness No. 3 (Negative Disco: Industrial Fever)

All Trance Must - Die

Playing around improvising with Arturia V Collection while doing a review - Piano V3 with its new engine, plus effects.

Piano V3 Sketch

First go with soundbrain, testing a new Intel build. Madness. Added to the brain - some sounds from Betty Apple.

More info - (and we're keeping track as they squash some cross-platform issues!)

https://cdm.link/2022/09/free-sample-mashing-with-samplebrain-by-aphex-twin-and-dave-griffiths/

soundbrain mangling

Name your price on Bandcamp https://flashrec.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-future-pulse
Label: FLASH Recordings - FLASH331 www.flash-rec.com
Mastered by www.riemannmastering.com

Future Pulse is the new compilation format on Florian Meindl's FLASH Recordings which features mainly artists who appear on the label for the first time.
The vibe is a diverse and a future orientated mixture of fast minimalistic Techno as well as broken beats and Psy influenced styles.

Peter Kirn - Fixed Action Patterns

@peterkirn
PETER KIRN is an electronic musician, DJ, and journalist, with releases on Detroit Underground, Industrial Complexx, Wunderblock Records, Kotä Records, TRAPEZ, and his own Establishment. 

He runs the daily site CDM.link in addition to current regular contributions to Resident Advisor, plus working on Inspire the Music: 50 Years of Roland History from Bjooks. He's a regular fixture on Europe's underground club and experimental circuit and has collaborated with CTM Festival (with MusicMakers Hacklab), MUTEK, and others. His show Post is now running on Refuge Worldwide.

Peter Kirn -Rich B*****Aura

2011 single. Pianos and nostalgia and some cassette tape business. Made entirely with Propellerhead Reason and (the original) MeeBlip. Time to share this one with my SoundCloud followers, then, even if it's a bit out of band of what I normally do.

Rewind Pop (Free Download, CC license)

A big cup of noodles - testing out the Roland AIRA SYSTEM-1's model of the classic SH-101. Hands-on and review at CDM.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/07/heres-sh-101-reborn-aira-plug-sounds/

Started with the init preset - of course. ;)


SH-101 PLUG-OUT / Roland AIRA SYSTEM-1 Noodling!

Into Darkness No. 4 (a Whole New Terror)

The Doomscrollers

Some first sounds out of the new PO-12 pocket synths. More to come... Incredible $59 synths; can't wait to make some proper music with them. (The sequencing features are surprisingly powerful!)

Plus two live jams with rhythm.

Live Teenage Engineering PO-12 Rhythm Jam

Repost from Refuge Worldwide - with track listing. I mixed together audio found via an archive of an archive of an early 2000s e-zine edited by Shankar Barua, the Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts. The original archive comes via Laurie Spiegel for EMF. It's a beautiful picture of the Indian electronic composition (and media art) scene at the time:

KJ Singh - montage of compositions (including a jingle for a tire store)
Shankar Barua - Jauntila ("jaunty")
Amit Sharma
Vipin Mishra - review of KORG Triton
Vipin Mishra - World Dance
[unknown, various - soundtrack for "Making of Sculptors Studio"]
Ashim Ghosh
Asshar and Envision - Cooking Session
Bacchus Barua - Ghostly
Michael Robinson - Kirvani
Arjun Sen - interview excerpt
Arjun Sen - India Remixed, feat. Roshni
Dr. Raghuthaman Opeh
[Unknown - "pop2" from IDEA 2]
[Unknown - "moroc" from IDEA 4]
Sandy Bose - "RAVE"
New Dehli - Sab kuch toone
Arjun Sen - Journey
[unknown, various - soundtrack for documentary of In the Company of 5 Saints - Jaideep Mehrotra]

POST - Indian Documentary Of Electronic Arts Special - P Kirn - 06 Aug 2024

The amazing Ana Yan joined in live for this portion of INTERZONE afterparty, underground queer party in Berlin.

Here's that live portion. @anayan.cr -https://www.instagram.com/anayan.cr/

P KIRN Vs ANA YAN Afterzone 0824

Full set for the @interzone afterhours, August 2024 Berlin
posting full playlist shortly

Afterzone mix - Aug 2024

5 October 2025 for Refuge Worldwide:
An interview with Hussein Kazoun, co-founder of the Nation Station community kitchen in Beirut, about the situation with ongoing forced displacement and Israeli airstrikes. (The interview is briefly interrupted by the sound of a bomb.) 

Latest info and ways to give on their Instagram account - https://www.instagram.com/nationstation__/

Interview: Hussein Kazoun, Nation Station community kitchen, Beirut

Reposted from @refugeworldwide (with edits)
Music for Lebanon and all those forcibly displaced there (Syrian, Palestinian, North African, and beyond), plus an interview with Hussein Kazoun of community kitchen Nation Station.

Track listing:

Sleepspent - Reprise
Charbel Haber and Fadi Tabbal - Couvre-feu
elyse tabet - 4 A.M.
Sandy Chamoun - HAWALTOU
Anthony Sahyoun - Minhadalskekin / من حدّ السكاكين
Rust - Fi Makan
Rust - Kawkab
Rust - Diaspora
Youmna Saba - Tareeq طريق
Jad Atoui - Leaves Must Fall - feat Hassan Chehouri (Piano)
Fairouz - Kamat Mariyam
Random Walkers - Transmutations (Rise 1969 Remix)
Yara Asmar - from gardens in the city we keep alive

POST- For Lebanon - P Kirn - 05 Oct 2024

Robert Lippok (raster noton) and Peter Kirn play a live set, on the 4DSOUND spatial audio system during Amsterdam Dance Event, October 2014. 

Working with single-cycle instruments, snippets of sound, and keyboard instruments, we play a collaborative improvisation inspired by the architecture of Arno Brandlhuber.

Recorded by Frank Bretschneider http://www.frankbretschneider.de  - thanks for the recording! (As this is a binaural recording, you'll need to listen through headphones, not speakers, in order to perceive spatialization. This gives a rough approximation of the impact of the 4DSOUND system - perhaps best understood as a different, stereo spatial experience.) 

Photo: Georg Schroll.

Robert Lippok / Peter Kirn live in Amsterdam on 4DSOUND

I used an AI voice generator to imagine the inner voice of Mikey Shulman as spoken by Anakin Skywalker. In this case, the robotic speaking style is... well, in character! 

Original source:
https://x.com/mpatti/status/1878147029764911131

"It's not really enjoyable to make music" -Anakin Skywalker

Playing with the new KORG minilogue - first sound design experiments, messing with cross modulation and sequences and different voice modes. Full review on CDM http://createdigitalmusic.com

Possessed by minilogue

minilogue reveries (various sound experiments)

Messing about with this nice free drum kit from the wonderful LEGOWELT. Inspiration. And love those dirty Amiga floppy sounds.

Download: https://awolfe.home.xs4all.nl

Story: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2016/02/legowelt-turned-amiga-floppy-samples-into-a-free-drum-kit/

Sample - LEGOWELT Smackos AMIGA 909 drum kit

An exploration of the sounds of space exploration - made here on Earth. ESA's ESTEC facility is where spacecraft are prepared for travel.

Here are sounds recorded of prototypes of ESA's upcoming ExoMars rover, made in the Planetary Robotics Lab. This includes sounds as we would actually hear them (albeit in Earth atmosphere), as the rover prototype tests its wheels and disembarks from the lander mock-up and traverses some simulated Martian gravel.

It also includes some electro-magnetic radiation, converted to audible sound. 

In addition, I've included sounds of the popping of nitrogen valves from the Materials & Electrical Components Laboratory, involved in a materials test.

The microphones used for this recording are specially made by Slovakia's Jonáš Gruska (LOM Label). Audible spectrum recordings are made with Uši; EMF recordings with Elektrosluch.

These were produced in November 2016 as part of a collaboration with the European Space Agency and TEDxESA. They're CC for a reason - we hope you'll remix and reuse them!

Credit: Peter Kirn/CDM/ESA CC BY-SA

ESTEC - Nitrogen Valves

An exploration of the sounds of space exploration - made here on Earth. ESA's ESTEC facility is where spacecraft are prepared for travel.

Here are sounds recorded of prototypes of ESA's upcoming ExoMars rover, made in the Planetary Robotics Lab. This includes sounds as we would actually hear them (albeit in Earth atmosphere), as the rover prototype tests its wheels and disembarks from the lander mock-up and traverses some simulated Martian gravel.

It also includes some electro-magnetic radiation, converted to audible sound. 

In addition, I've included sounds of the popping of nitrogen valves from the Materials & Electrical Components Laboratory, involved in a materials test.

The microphones used for this recording are specially made by Slovakia's Jonáš Gruska (LOM Label). Audible spectrum recordings are made with Uši; EMF recordings with Elektrosluch.

These were produced in November 2016 as part of a collaboration with the European Space Agency and TEDxESA. They're CC for a reason - we hope you'll remix and reuse them!

ESTEC - EMF Recording Of Mars Rover Camera

ESTEC - Mars Rover Disembarking From Lander

ESTEC - EMF Recording Of Mars Rover

ESTEC - Mars Rover Traversing Gravel

ESTEC - Test Of Prototype Mars Rover Wheels

>> @peterkirn
>> @jamaicasuk

Imaski is a new self titled debut-EP of a new project from the Berlin based multimedia artist and producer Peter Kirn. With Imaski he has  set out to explore the eclectic and futuristic side of contemporary dance music and electronic pop. 

The release features the very trippy and spaced out "Sisters" and it's evil twin in shape of a heavy and dark remix provided by fellow Berliner, DJ and producer Jamaica Suk, which we have the honor to premiere today. Producers of hypnotic big room techno, take note! 


HMWL Premiere: Imaski - Sisters (Jamaica Suk remix) [Establishment Records]

Live experimental/industrial/techno set from Pornceptual's Drone Floor ("K-Hole Floor"), Alte Münze Berlin.

Improvised live, recorded from the feed.

Drawing in part from my Alchemic Harm side project.

P Kirn, Live at Pornceptual Berlin, 10 June 2017

Experimental track produced with sounds created in Mammut, free FFT software from Norway.

Inspired in part by an acephalgic migraine I experienced recently / scintillating scotoma (an optical distortion in perception which - in this case happily was not followed by the headache)

Wrote about the tool, too (early 21st century software!):

http://cdm.link/2018/02/mammut-free-software-completely-insane-things-sounds/

Acephalgic

Intimacy in a Fluid World is an ode to posthuman love and displacement, unfolding in nonlinear, cyclic form. The title borrows from an essay by futurist and transhumanist
Work In Progress Iranian-American F. M. Esfandiary (aka FM-2030 / Fereidoun M. Esfandiar), in his call for new social relations and "mobilia". Solo ambient sounds produce a landscape of unease, fragile unbecomings as metamorphosis to some new possibility.
   
In meticulous, organic sound designs and recordings crafted over a span of several years, the LP ruminates on fragmentary emotions. The album is a self-portrait in alternative states of emotional being in the midst of future crises, interspersed with lyrical episodes and gender-twisted vocals.

Peter Kirn — Intimacy In A Fluid World

Peter Kirn — The Collapse Of The Hoard

Peter Kirn — I Sang To Myself My Alien Other

Peter Kirn — Human Mutations

Peter Kirn — Incantation For Imprinting

After a cosmic trip, just released on Wunderblock Records as "Objectors EP", Peter Kirn now presents for our Podcast his vision of a modern techno DJ set, fresh, groovy and psychedelic.

Tracklist:

1. N1L - Ipecac - N1L
2. Insolate - Obscure Object Of Desire (JoeFarr Remix) - User Experience
3. Dave Tarrida - Hunter - Tripalium Corp
4. VSK - Multiverse - 47
5. Lester Fitzpatrick vs Mark Beltrami - Played On The System - Chicago Jaxx
6. Stanislav Tolkachev - February - Illegal Alien
7. Kyoka - Link - трип
8. Bipolar - Mood Swing - Float Records
9. Glaskin - Ratunek - Yael Trip
10. FBK - Blinking Lights - Anode Records
11. Developer - Dream Awake - Developer Archive
12. Casual Treatment - Caught Again (Takaaki Itoh Remix) - 09 Recordings
13. Thanos Hana - Big Wheel - TH ± Tar Hallow
14. Vincent - Citros - Anode Records
15. Razbibriga - Pressure - Promena
16. Danny Skripp - Depaysement - Wunderbock Records
17. Lost Algorithm & OCD - Planet Destroyed - Fabrik
18. Thanos Hana - Stabbing - TH ± Tar Hallow
19. MRD - Superwoman feat. Sticky Ocky - ARTS
20. Furtive - Nematocyte - Format Recordings
21. Peter Kirn - The Collapse Of The Hoard - Kotä Records

***
Artwork by Pavel Khusainov.

SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast via iTunes:
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#PeterKirn #Wunderblock #Podcast #techno #moderntechno #scifitechno #underground #djset

Wunderblock Podcast 088 [WP088]

[WP088] Peter Kirn - Wunderblock Podcast 088

Chilled/eclectic. Made in fall for Renata Nakonechnikova for a show of hers in Moscow... between southern and northern sides of the globe.

Recorded live in Traktor DJ (in Manila, on the go...)

All tracks available on Buy Music Club - please support these artists!
https://buymusic.club/list/peter-kirn-dreams-of-hemispheres-mix

Araceae - "The Natural World"
M;;R - "For The Future"
Vladislav Delay - "One"
Clarice Jensen - "The Organ That Made You Bleed"
OPX7 - "A Colony Always Works for the Gyne"
Doc Sleep - "Nim"
Interlaken - "Side B"
Chaircrusher - "Grandma Moses"
Ken Ishii - "Twitched" (Gayle San Remix)
Ankaa - "Tabouli"
Submerse - "Truth"
meeting by chance - "Inside Out"
MYK DERILL - "Facial Features"
Gurun Gurun - "Tsuki ni te" (ft. Cokiyu)
affable noise - "fluctuation of feeling"
Maribel Tafur - "In Wi"
Air Liquide - "If There Was No Gravity" 
Dr. Nojoke - "Static Shock"
Ryuichi Sakamoto - "solari"
Cornelius - "Brazil"



(only one missing - "solari" by Ryuichi Sakamoto is out on Commmons, https://www.commmons.com/index.html )

Dreams of hemispheres mix

@peterkirn

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Peter Kirn - Eingangshalle

Read the review/extensive interview on Disquiet:
http://disquiet.com/2013/05/01/peter-kirn-music-for-dance-2013/

Download a lossless copy (Creative Commons licensed, pay what you like)
http://pkirn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-dance

Music for Dance
P. KIRN

MUSIC FOR DANCE is a compilation of music I produced for choreographers, 2002-2011. I've recomposed these materials into a continuous musical soundscape. It's a new narrative that's independent of the original works, but inspired by the connection to these collaborators. 

I realize looking back at this work that it represents a chapter in my life, living in Manhattan and working in computer sounds in live, improvisatory contexts, challenged and transformed by the experience of space and time found in the modern dance scene there. Now, looking back on those nine years in New York City takes on a special meaning.

I want in particular to recognize the long-term collaborative relationships I had with two choreographers and fellow Sarah Lawrence College alumni, Kathy Westwater and Christopher Williams. The sound materials here come largely from work for Kathy Westwater, especially her Dark Matter series, along with works completed with Christopher Williams, Elise Knudson, and Pauliina Ailennoinen. The sounds are synthesized or heavily digitally processed, with only momentary incursions of sampled and found sound, including a brief interludes of my own vocals and processed flute/vocal sounds recorded with the talented Margaret Lancaster.

Venues included Dance Theater Workshop, 92nd Street Y, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Joyce SoHo, and others. Thanks to John Yannelli, Sarah Rudner, Dan Hurlin, and Emily Devine of the Sarah Lawrence Dance program.

In memory of Viola Farber, who helped launch me on this journey.

Completed: 2011
Peter Kirn, Berlin 2013

Music for Kathy Westwater, Christopher Williams, and Elise Knudson
Photos: Peter Kirn
Design: Anette K. Hansen

Music for Dance

Chromatic Adaptation

REmind me in the cherry days
MIxed up marigold petals
FAll like butter rain
SOlitude rests, olive on the tongue.
LAugh out the lapis tunes,
for TIme is an indigo tincture.
DOn't know what I'll do when you're gone,
bruises my words so purple,
REmaining in blood red remembrances there.
credits
released November 20, 2020

music on Moog Matriarch with some digital effects and strings.
Peter Kirn, November 2020.

PETER KIRN

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