• People & Adventures


  • Controller Legos

    On my recent trip to Germany I had the chance to meet Stephan Schmitt (founder of Native Instruments) who is working with Daniel Tzschentke at the newly founded Nonlinear Labs. Some wonderful instruments will be coming from that team soon, but I found great fascination...
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  • Controllerist Feature – Julien Bayle a.k.a. Protofuse

    Our series of monthly features focuses on different controllerists from around the world that are either pushing the envelope of electronic music and live performance in some way or another, or accomplished performers with an unmistakable sound. This month we’ve done a video interview with experimental...
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  • Andrew Shum makes a Kpop mashup

    Andrew Shum first came to our attention with episode 2 of his Beat Challenged series. After making episode 3, however, he took a long break from making videos, fortunately broken with this new episode, where he expertly chops up Korean pop tracks and videos and...
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  • YAELTEX – “Unusual Media” and strange controllers

    Although most major MIDI controller manufacturers and software developers market and sell their products using primarily the English language, creativity, hacking spirit and innovation in controllerism and music technology are obviously not limited to the English-speaking world. The language barrier often prevents news of breakthroughs...
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