HannesIn the wake of Bandcamp’s acquisition by Epic Games, I decided to look at which other music publishing platforms are out...
Graphic designer, illustrator and soundmangler. He makes music as kurodama and as part of the electronic music duo kvsu. Together with his wife Elizabeth he runs Papernoise, a small design studio located in northern Italy, specialised in graphic design for the world of music.
Blinking Lights 010 – Pixel Modulars
Even if this blog is mostly about making electronic music with things that you can use IRL, today’s issue of Blinking Lights is all about software modulars, which you maybe haven’t heard of yet. Most well-known software modulars, like VCV rack or Softube Modular, rely heavily on the skeumorphic representation of hardware. [...]
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Music Furniture
Recently – through a discussion on the online forum llllllll – I found out about various appearances of modular synths in adverts for Swedish furniture company Ikea. Credit go to users xmacex and Knivtid, who provided the photos and most of the intel. Now, this is interesting for various reasons. It’s a clear sign that […]
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Synth Design Podcast
I was recently inerviewed by the Synthux Academy podcast about my work as a Eurorack Frontpanel Interface Designer. If listening to me rambling for an hour about frontpanels, interface design and how we created the front-facing part of Mutable Instruments’ Beads and Hexinverter’s Minphaser, sounds intriguing to you, then [...]
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Blinking Lights 009 – Tape Fields and Boom Plants
Why Blog? Marc Weidenbaum has a good answer to that. Also I’ll try to follow his suggestion and post a bit more often. Let’s see how that goes. If you’re somebody who posts regularly on social media, but feels kind of weird about it, give the article below a read, it’s full of interesting thoughts […]
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Blinking Lights 008 – On My Behalf
Updates on my own projects have been piling up over the last few weeks. So this edition of Blinking Lights is selfishly all about me. Ambient Nuggets #4: Kurodama & Benjamin Mauch by Purlieu Recordings The biggest news is definitely this split release with Benjamin Mauch. I’m a big fan of his work, and have […]
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Sketches of Sound, the Papernoise Edition
A long time ago I made this drawing for Marc Weidenbaum’s excellend blog disquiet.com. It was for a series he was doing called “Sketches of Sound” (hence the title of this post), where he was inviting illustrators to sketch something sound-related. Every year I try to do something called “inktober”. The idea [...]
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Blinking Lights 007 – Design Detour
Émilie recently delighted us with an in-depth recount of Beads’ long and windy history. It all started about 4 years ago with the above mockup Émilie sent me. You can read the full story here: Beads an illustrated history When you work together for so long, it happens that your thought patterns start to align. […]
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MMOW, the Graphic Novel That Never Was, Pt.2
Music Makers of the World, aka MMOW was a graphic novel project, that I started ages ago, but for several reasons never completed (see Pt.1, Step Into the Time Machine: MMOW, the Graphic Novel That Never Was, Pt.1). In my original plans it should have been a mix of interviews with real-life people, and a […]
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Intimate Spaces Making-of Pt.3: The Pool
The last months have been quite busy and chaotic, so this new instalment of Making of Intimate Spaces comes with a bit of a delay. This will also be the last update on the matter here on Horizontalpitch, my notes on the remainig 3 tracks can be found on my website: kvsu.net/kurodama. My process here […]
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Blinking Lights 006 – Lovely Leftovers
This might look like a best-of-2020 list, but it’s not. It is, rather, a random – albeit carefully curated – list of the following: albums or videos I was planning to write about in 2020 but didn’t manage to; albums that don’t really fit into the concept behind horizontalpitch, but which I find too cool […]
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