The folks at cables.gl have evidently been busy, as they’ve got eye-searing new demos to share. And if you wish that were your next music video, you’re in luck, as they posted some tutorials on advanced topics for beginners, too. Best of all, everything is free, and runs right in your browser.
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Liz Pelly’s Spotify book reveals how company uses ghost content
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Inside the Dune 2 score with Osmose and Hans Zimmer
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Berna is now on Windows, too, so your Mac or PC can be a historical experimental sound lab
Now your Windows PC can also enter the exciting world of sound synthesis of the 1950s. Here’s news on Berna3 for Windows, plus some tutorial content to get you up to speed.
Looking for a future for techno? Jlin’s “Embryo” is pure fire
How much percussion and rhythmic thought can fit in under four minutes? A lot, when it’s in the hands of Gary, Indiana’s own Jlin. It’s soon to be in some human percussionist hands, too.
Tehran Contemporary Sounds’ futuristic music is here – listen to these 15 tracks for a taste
Tehran has one of the world’s most futuristic, alive electronic scenes. It just sometimes exists in and out of Iran. It floats into other places, sometimes unexpectedly underground in the city, sometimes flung around the globe through connections between artists and the impressions they make on the rest of us.
Read this story of how the original Xbox startup sound was created
20 years ago next month, Microsoft’s Xbox console debuted – and there’s a story behind how it got its unique boot sound sequence. Call it this century’s first chip music composition / sonic branding feat.
Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro news: 8K, object tracking, spatial audio, and still free updates
Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, and Logic Pro all got major updates today, too, to go alongside those new Macs. Logic gets the Spatial Audio tools we’ve been waiting for (and they look fantastic). Just as notable, the pricing stays the same – free updates, buy once, no subscriptions.
Apple gets the Pro back in MacBook Pro with more power – and ports and keys
Maybe the most noticeable feeling in Apple’s latest product unveiling – that sense that a Mac notebook launch brings real excitement again. “I sense something. A presence I’ve not felt since…” This is available to order now and ship next week, so I think some of your credit cards beat me to even writing this […]
An evocative album draws from Ukrainian sci-fi, in Cluster Lizard’s “Star Corsair”
Truly imaginative electronic music can let you screen science fiction in your mind’s eye. Dive into Cluster Lizard’s LP, close your eyes, and let their sounds be a score to legendary Ukrainian author, philosopher, and dissident Oles’ Berdnyk.
Streaming Saturday: Catch flash crash, full of live coding stars, and Scanner on Bandcamp
Staying in today and wish the electronic music could come to you? It’s your lucky day.
NAP, a free, high-performance data-driven visual and audio platform, is now slicker than ever
Secret sauce? Hardly. It’s more like a hot sauce competition with everyone sharing recipes. Naivi’a NAP Framework, if you missed it, is an open-source, high-octane toolset for digital artists that’s ready to plug into your data, any protocol (OSC, MIDI, Artnet, serial, Web), and push graphics to the edge. And it keeps getting better.