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`react-music` — Make beats with React!

The past few days Ken Wheeler has been tweeting some sneak peeks of what he’s been up to, after having heard that Akai was discontinuing its standalone hardware MPC drum machine offering: I did what any geek that writes React code all day long would do: I wrote a library so that I can make […]

Piano + Glacier =

Performance by pianist Ludovico Einaudi on the Arctic Ocean, organised by Greenpeace: Through his music, acclaimed Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi has added his voice to those of eight million people from across the world demanding protection for the Arctic. Einaudi performed one of his own compositions on a floating platform in the middle […]

McDonald’s McTrax: Play the Placemat

McTrax, The McDonald’s placemat that turns into a full music production station! By the use of conductive ink on a piece of paper you can connect your smartphone to our placemat via Bluetooth. Cool!

Young Fathers – Dead

Yesterday I went to see alt-J together with @joggink at Vorst Nationaal. Whilst chatting up before and after the – truth be told – not that great concert (singing off key from the start, ORLY?) one of the topics, of course, was music. During that talk I mentioned one of the, to me, musical revelations […]

Little Dragon – Underbart

Went to see a show of Little Dragon last week. It was awesome.

Crossbeat – Uprising

CROSSBEAT (Ghent, Belgium) is a musical collaboration between Sherien Holail, Frederik Van Melle and Dries Merre. Their music emphasizes deep hypnotizing basslines and vivid percussion, accompanied by atmospheric synthesizers as well as analogue instruments. Quite digging this one! The EP featuring this track is recommended. Crossbeat →

Yaybahar

Yaybahar is an electric-free, totally acoustic instrument designed by Gorkem Sen. The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via the coiled springs to the frame drums. These vibrations are turned into sound by the membranes which echo back and forth on the coiled springs. This results in an unique listening experience with an hypnotic surround […]

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