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

LXR-02 Turbo Industrial

A live jam made with the MOD Devices Dwarf effects hardware - using only a single custom patch on the Arturia MicroBrute as an input, and heavy use of Shiro and other effects. A little sonic reverie while I'm working on a review of the brilliant Dwarf for CDM:

Namaka - Dwarf

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

All Trance Must - Die

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

I got carried away and decided to orchestrate this meme as an extended ambient piece. Plasmonic, Spitfire LABS Synth Strings, Noise Engineering Desmodus, Hybrid Reverb, Roland Cloud JUPITER-4, Arturia Delay TAPE-201, Polyverse COMET, Orchestral Tools Felt Piano. I blame https://twitter.com/lighghtmusic

b.c.b.

Live set from the (unexpected) final weekend of the Belgrade club Drugstore (motto: "underground is an understatement"). Recorded straight from the board, so as dirty as the set was. ;)

MeeBlip anode
KORG volca beats, monotron delay
Arturia BeatStep
Maschine
Ableton Live 
Session Keys

All improvised live, plus a couple of mixes of unreleased, forthcoming NERKKIRN, because... everything here is wrong.

Live techno set - Drugstore, Belgrade (RS) - 04.04.14 P. KIRN

Live in Amsterdam, an improvised solo piano / sampled piano set with iPad (the excellent Samplr) and some light iPhone effects (WretchUp, which I co-developed with Mouse on Mars), plus visuals in Processing. 

All the sounds come from the live performance on the piano. Improvised very much on the spot when my laptop died during sound check.

More on that app:
http://www.samplr.net

From the STEIM Summer Party, curated by Jan Werner, with Jan, Kathy Alberici, and myself. On the anniversary of the date we lost Michel Waisvisz, the pioneering electronic musician (The Hands, Cracklebox).

Recorded live at STEIM (additional sound mixed direct).

More on STEIM:
http://steim.org

Solo STEIM - P. Kirn, processed piano, 18 June 2014

Pandemonium Architecture

Unease

Mass Action (Denizens Remix)

Mass Action (Silenzo Remix)

Mass Action

Logic Of Excess

Live solo piano in a living room in Riga, recorded from the audience. At Kaņepes Kultūras centrs, Rīga - the wind you hear toward the end is the open windows as we let in some cool air on this rainy August night.

All improvised, nearly all sampled on the spot. Piano plus some custom software (Pure Data) and iPad atop the music stand (Samplr). 

Part of a shared bill opened by Platons Buravickis and Jelena Glazova, also mixing electronics and piano.

Live performance mastered/light effects via UAD

Photo: Jelena Glazova.
http://www.jelena-glazova.com
https://soundcloud.com/jelenaglazova

Live in Riga - piano and electronics solo

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

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

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)

Music video premiere on FAME Magazine (UK): http://www.famemagazine.co.uk/2016/06/24/video-premiere-imaski-dont-think-of-me/

Imaski is the self-titled debut of a new project from Peter Kirn - flirtatious, techno-tinged hyperreal pop. 

The release is accompanied by both the saturated colors of filmmaker Anna Maria Olech's videos, and remixes by Jamaica Suk (L.A.G., Face to Face) and Moderna (Ghostly International).

Music: Peter Kirn. 
Video/photography: AnnaMaria Olech. 
Design: Marijn Degenaar. 
Mastering: Cem Oral.
Vocals ("Don't think of me," "Hyperloop"): Laura Helm.

Imaski

Download

Imaski: Don't think of me

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

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

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

New Brvtalism 308 up now - https://soundcloud.com/thebrvtalistxx/new-brvtalism-no-308-peter-kirn?si=dd668b103f80496886c28565597088d6

PETER KIRN fuels his love of techno and dancefloors with a deep background in experimental music and machines. He's released his own music on Detroit Underground, Snork Enterprises, Instruments of Discipline, and his imprint Establishment, as well as engaging collaborations from architecture and spatial sound to modern dance. As an organizer of open collaborative performance labs, he's worked with CTM, MUTEK.mx, STUK, and Nusasonic/WSK festivals. He writes and speaks about music making and creative technologies, including running the daily site CDM (cdm.link) and co-producing the MeeBlip synthesizer hardware line.

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