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The BMM Colour Palette, an Open Hardware Case Study
Welcome to the fourth and last episode in our series on open source modules. This time we’re taking a look at how an open source project can grow beyond what the original maker had envisioned, to the point of becoming something quite different. Let me introduce: the Colour Palette! You’ve probably spotted it somewhere on the [...]
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Open Modules for Open Minds Pt.3
<a href="http://www.horizontalpitch.com/2015/10/open-modules-for-open-minds-pt-3/" title="Open Modules for Open Minds Pt.3"><img class="alignnone wp-image-1363 size-medium" src="http://www.horizontalpitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/braids-edit-700x424.jpg" alt="braids-edit" width="700" height="424" /></a> Virtuous circles and [...]
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Open Modules for Open Minds Pt.2
In the first part of Open Modules for Open Minds we have read about the reasons behind choosing an open source license, through interviews with Mutable Instruments, Monome, QuBit Electronix, Befaco, Rebel Technology, HackMe and Music Thing Modular. We’ll now look into how this licensing scheme and the related business model has [...]
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Open Modules for Open Minds
<a href="http://www.horizontalpitch.com/2015/09/1271/"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1275" src="http://www.horizontalpitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/tmp-bg-700x370.jpg" alt="tmp-bg" width="700" height="370" /></a> Open Software and Hardware in the Modular World
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From Monotron to Infinity
Life is full of coincidences. One day this album pops up in my Bandcamp feed. It’s an album called at the place, by an artist called infinite digits. Something seems familiar about the name, but for the moment I don’t give it much thought and just listen. The music catches my attention. It’s melodic and […]
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Chosen Waves 016: midcentury modular – arp of contemplation
arps is the first album by Raleigh-based John Mitchell, aka midcentury modular. His work has been influenced by some of the known acts from the modular world, mostly: Matthias Puech with his A Year Of Time and Emily Sprague’s Water Memory. Still, he has his own voice and focus when it comes to composition and […]
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Alternate Firmwares Addendum
We’ve already seen some alternate firmwares in the article Open Modules for Open Minds Pt.3, but in the meantime I was able to discover even more. Some of them are open source, some of them aren’t and some others are even reverse-engineered attempts to extend a module’s functionality. This is a quick update, just [...]
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Blinking Lights 005: Fuzzy Loops
Some things old and new. As mentioned in one of the previous Blinking Lights posts I do like to swap albums with other artists. So far, all these trades have brought me into possession of some wonderful albums, which perhaps I would otherwise never have found out about. I’m happy to say that the trend […]
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My relationship with eurorack
We’re really happy to present you this first guest post on Horizontalpitch by Claude Aldous. Claude creates a very interesting print-only fanzine called Deft Esoterica. If you’re into exploratory, experimental sounds, I urge you to check it out here: deftesoterica.bandcamp.com. Together with his partner Ola he plays in an [...]
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Modular Spaces Pt.3: Work/Music Balance
It’s been quite a while since the last Modular Spaces installment, but we’re back with a very special one. I’m calling this “work/music” balance, and it’s a topic that touches me personally quite a bit. As somebody who works in design for the music (instruments) industry, but also dabbles in the [...]
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