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Ten Albums
Lately I’ve been seeing lots of these “artist naming their 10 favourite albums” posts. I like those because there’s often something new for me to discover in them. It’s definitely not easy to boil down half a lifetime of music listenting to just 10 titles and doing so is likely a great excersise. It forces [...]
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On Resonate
In the wake of Bandcamp’s acquisition by Epic Games, I decided to look at which other music publishing platforms are out there. Not that I think that the acquisition will necessarily be bad for Bandcamp. It might be of course, it wouldn’t be the first one. But it’s a bit early to tell. Still, I […]
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Design Notes on Colour Blindness – Part 2
In Part 1, I went through some of the background that lead Émilie Gillet and I to search for solutions to improve the usability of Mutable Instruments’ modules for people with colour blindness. Let’s now see what solutions we considered, tested and eventually implemented, both to improve older modules and to design new ones. Initially, [...]
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Design Notes on Colour Blindness, Part 1
I’m definitely stating the obvious when I say that we all see colours differently. Who’s never gotten into a discussion about a certain hue being more red or more purple? More blue or more green? Mostly this is due to environmental and psychological factors, but for some people the retina will not pick up certain […]
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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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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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Intimate Spaces Making-of Pt.2: The Cavaedium
There’s an incredible sense of liberation being able to say the words: “it’s released!”. Something that has so far been a mental construct, caged in the artist’s mind, is being set free. But it’s also the mind of the artist being freed from this thought, this construct, which over time has occupied [...]
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The Modular Sound
You’ve all probably seen it by now, Behringer has jumped into the synth market and is about to release a polyphonic analogue keyboard synth. This would be a totally unrelated story, if not for one sentence by Richard Devine, who, in the first teaser video, describes this new synth with the words: “It sounds very […]
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