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Someone made a Pomodoro timer for Ableton Live, so you can stay productive, take breaks
Productivity engineering has come to music production. A popular method for timeboxing is now available as a free Live add-on.
In quarantined China, concerts and clubs are going online as a safe place to meet
Even in the capital Beijing, once-crowded streets are now empty, as the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak forces people at home. The solution for live musicians: turn to streaming.
The Wall of Sound reimagines a sampler-sequencer for public space and use
In an oversized, lo-fi electronic sound instrument, the project from Warszawa, PL’s panGenerator lets the public collaborate on sonic graffiti.
The latest attempt to make digital music tangible: NFC-powered Muse Blocks
We are living in an immaterial world. Muse Blocks, tiles with embedded NFC chips, are one idea, and now team up with a popular electronic music label.
Welcome to Hell: the marvelous, mad musical instruments of Ewa Justka
Some people claim electronic music is the work of the devil. Inventor Ewa Justka creates things that could actually prove it.
Watch Elsa Garmire’s pioneering laser show from 1972 – futuristic and expressive even now
Forget that cheesy Pink Floyd stuff from the planetarium. Scientist Elsa Garmire used optic chops to make lasers into a real instrument – and her work holds up today.
Hear Jan Wagner’s intimate piano electronics, before they enter a planetarium dome
Maybe now is a perfect time for a moment of calm contemplation – premiering Jan Wagner’s “Kapitel 36” on the eve of a new album and a spatial planetarium premiere.
AI upscaling makes this Lumiere Bros film look new – and you can use the same technique
A.I.! Good gawd y’all – what is it good for? Absolutely … upscaling, actually. Some of machine learning’s powers may prove to be simple but transformative.
Samplr, the genius sampling app for iPad, is also getting a long-awaited update
Samplr, one of the best music-making apps on iOS, is getting its first update since 2014.