People continue to pump out eye candy using the free Java-based tool Processing. This week’s example: a test of a new surfaces library for Processing: Go check out examples and download the library on the Processing boards. Via the German-language blog eskimoblood. And yes, this resembles more than a passing resemblance to Autechre’s Grantz Graf. […]

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Apple Mac Pro announcement, Digidesign has announced today they expect to release an Intel Mac-compatible version of Pro Tools HD 7.2 in September. Pro Tools LE and M-Powered are already available as Universal binaries for use with Intel Macs. The HD version lagged behind the lower-end releases because it […]

TyphoonLabs Shader Designer is a free IDE for creating your own vertex and pixel/fragment shaders, the magical code snippets that process 3D geometries, textures, and even images and video on your GPU. I’ve been fiddling around with it a bit on Windows as I work on learning OpenGL’s shading language, GLSL, and it seems quite […]

Cycling ’74 has posted a fascinating set of videos of artists talking about how they use Max/MSP/Jitter. (Thanks, Kevin!) Jamie Lidell talks about approaching Max as a vocalist and being a “one-man funk tornado.” It’s interesting to me that Max/MSP has made the transition with him from his classic IDM style to funk — solid […]

In our last episode, I was assembling my fantastic new portable Shuttle PC in glorious comic book form. I got as far as booting Ubuntu Linux off a CD, but obviously I wouldn’t want to stop there. Next steps: getting the onboard NVIDIA RAID working, and making a lean, livable Windows XP install I won’t […]

One major carrot Microsoft is holding out to convince people to upgrade to Vista some time next year is the broadly-overhauled DirectX 10. I’m skeptical about many of the new features in Vista, but I have to say, DirectX 10 is tempting, at least based on what we know now. Details are somewhat sketchy, but […]

Geek couture takes another giant leap forward: via the excellent bending blog Get Lofi, we learn someone has started selling t-shirts with Max/MSP patches and circuit-bent Speak-and-Spells: such a turn on: unlikely apparel Just US$9.99, too, and shipping internationally. If you get one, send us a photo of you in it, please. I do enjoy […]

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 […]