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More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

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Mats Thiersch Wins Concours de Genève's Conducting Edition

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The 2026 Concours de Genève 's Conducting Edition has just concluded, after the three finalists conducted the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in works by Bartók, Mahler, Prokofiev, Strauss, and…

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