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Peter Kirn
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Music and music technology journalist, composer and electronic artist/dj. I make cdm.link, work on the meeblip.com synth, and cover creative technologies. Foodie and activist. Lebanese-American background, came from Kentucky, now in Berlin.
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Thinking of our friends in Asheville and across the southeast US following hurricane Helene. If there's anything you need, give a shout.

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I did my best to put together a guide to relief efforts in Lebanon. It's scary because this situation is likely going to be worse by morning. But the music scene is in action doing what governments and NGOs do not. cdm.link/lebanon-resp...

Lebanon's cultural scene is responding with emergency crisis centers - CDM Create Digital Music
Lebanon's cultural scene is responding with emergency crisis centers - CDM Create Digital Music

Amid mass Israeli attacks on the people of Lebanon, musicians, artists, journalists, and cultural institutions are banding together to provide emergency mutual aid. That includes our friends at the Be...

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Sorry for the outages this week. CDM is back online, new server infrastructure, new stack, fixed certificates, and now working through lots of other overdue improvements at last. Thanks to the heroic Hallvard, who's also an awesome hardware engineer.

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Oh wow - did the most beloved Mac-centered live visual tool just make its price $99 *and* add a new Metal-native render engine? Yes, it did. This has implications for Vidvox's (cross-platform) open source tools, too. cdm.link/2024/09/vdmx6/

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Huge opportunity for folks and a great organization - help get the word out. Cavendish has worked on everything from Doctor Who to FIFA: Sync and licensing workshops online for women, trans and nonbinary people: cdm.link/2024/09/sync...

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Mmm, another keyboard with pads. And yet - the MK4 turns out to be something really special, because of the work they did on DAW integration and swapping modes. cdm.link/2024/08/nova...

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Brat summer ain't over yet. Enjoy some Charli XCX on LSDJ.

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What's great? Roar. What's the best part of Roar? Feedback. What could make it even better? The ability to play it with MIDI notes. Perfect. cdm.link/2024/07/rr-f...

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Peter Kirn
@pkirn.bsky.social
Music and music technology journalist, composer and electronic artist/dj. I make cdm.link, work on the meeblip.com synth, and cover creative technologies. Foodie and activist. Lebanese-American background, came from Kentucky, now in Berlin.
249 followers61 following129 posts