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Welcome to Create Digital Motion!
A new companion to Create Digital Music, Create Digital Motion will focus on producing motion graphics, video, and animation, with an emphasis on real-time creation of visuals for performance, VJing, and interactive art. Because artists increasingly span disciplines and media, CDMu and CDMo will share a single forum: createdigitalnoise.com Create Digital Music / Create Digital […]
ccCreators: New Community for Creative People to Meet, Collaborate
Going beyond the mix tape now, here’s a new community for creative types to meet up and collaborate, all while sharing work under a Creative Commons license, as created by Marco Raaphorst of Melodiefabriek: Any Creative Commons creator can join for free. So if you’re a composer, a filmmaker, a podcaster, a writer, you name […]
International Mixtape Project Sharing Tapes, CDs Worldwide
At two years old, the International Mixtape Project now features Israeli microhouse, Nova Scotia neo-soul, Bay Area hip-hop, and Congolese electro-folk, exchanged among 500 participants in 30 countries. Efforts like these fly in the face of both the recording industry’s lockdown on copying and the free-for-all digital filesharing services, neither of which, let’s face it, […]
Improved Audio Features in Windows Vista, and MS Developer Makes Music on Mac
Curious about what will change for music and audio in Windows Vista? Microsoft’s Channel9 site got up close and personal with Vista’s audio developers in an extensive video, featuring Steve Ball and Larry Osterman: Steve Ball – Learning about Audio in Windows Vista [Channel9] (thanks to our resident Windows watcher, Adrian Anders!) Vista will have […]
Watch Poeme Electronique, Landmark 1958 Animation and Electronic Score
Architecture mixed with electronics mixed with animation — we think nothing of mixing these elements now. In 1958, as Poème Electronique was unleashed on the Brussels World’s Fair, it was still experimental. The animation/installation/composition was the collaborative creation of legendary modernist architect Le Corbusier, his assistant Iannis Xenakis, who would later come to be known […]
When Laptops Go Bad: HP Does Right by Laptop Lemon
When the magic works, it’s wonderful. And when it doesn’t … Jim Aikin, whose writing you know from Electronic Musician, Keyboard, his books, and many other places he pops up, has been having a pretty bad time with a brand new HP laptop and his shared his misery on the forums. The computer in question […]
New Forums Address: Create Digital Noise
If any of you have been having trouble with the forums today (lock icons, inability to post, etc.), you may have missed that we just moved servers. Instead of hosting the forums on createdigitalmusic.com/forums/, they’ll now be at createdigitalnoise.com. The forum RSS feed stays the same, provided you’re subscribed to the correct RSS feed. This […]
Fun in the Lab: NI LabVIEW, Meet Standard Windows, Mac Audio Hardware; Cheap Academic Deal
Behold the power of the Web. Back in December, a reader from National Instruments wrote to tell me that one of their developers had adapted the digital signal processing capabilities of their LabVIEW product to synthesizing sound. In other words, you can take this high-end development platform for “testing, measurement, and control” (i.e., primarily for […]