If you’re eagerly awaiting Live 9, we now have solid dates from Ableton. The Berlin developer will release Live 9 to the public on March 5, available for immediate download. Their new Push hardware should be available shortly thereafter; from March 5, you’ll be able to preorder. CDM will have a full hands-on review of […]
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Crisp Beats from Iceland’s Magnoose, Free to Download, with Videos
Is anyone in Iceland not a musician/producer? Given the island nation has an absurdly-tiny population, there must be some explanation that so much music pours out. Well, we’re going back there again. This weekend’s selection is the lovely music of Magnoose, aka Magnus Skarp of Reykjavik. This little-known producer is putting out some really fine-quality […]
Sailing Digital Seas: Exquisite Audiovisual Etudes Made in a Free Game Engine
30 seconds or more 07 – Will I ever make it home? from Victor Morales on Vimeo. Set to the music of Norway’s Pål Asle Pettersen, Victor Morales has created surreal digital landscapes made of textures that vibrate and transform in time to sound. And he’s being quite prolific. Working primarily with Crytek’s CryENGINE game […]
Make a Pd Patch, Run it on Android, iOS, Right Away: Two Free Solutions
Now that tablets and phones have the computational power our main studio machines did just a few short years ago, there’s every reason to look to these gizmos for music. For a person patching in Pure Data (Pd), the free graphical sound environment, it means you can liberate the stuff you’re making from your computer […]
Poems in Light, Sound, and Facades, in the Land of Goethe [Videos, Call for Proposals]
As we trace the spread of audiovisual culture and architectural mapping practice, here’s the latest episode. Weimar is planning the second edition of their projection=centric digital media festival Genius Loci Weimar. There, in the land of Liszt and the country of Goethe, they reimagine the city’s landscape in light and sound. The centerpiece of the […]
Interfacing Music with Light, A Musical Instrument Makes Performance Mysterious, Surprising
24 light sensitive sensors ‘lightefface’ – arduino + max/msp from kaziem on Vimeo. One of my earliest memories is of the piano. We’ve become so accustomed to this contraption, that it’s easy to lose sight of the pleasure of touching the apparatus of the keys and hearing sound. So, perhaps the endless experimentation with sensors […]
Musical Physics, Baby! A 3D AV Sequencer Box, Physics Resources for Max
The Box from Mike Todd on Vimeo. Knobs and faders, we love you on hardware. But when it comes to the unlimited possibilities of the computer, we know how to get the party on: “Add some physics bodies.” (See below; that’s really a quote.) Mike Todd, whose work we’ve seen before on CDMotion, sends us […]
Cableguys Will Modulate Everything – Now Get a Free, Powerful Pan-Shaping Plug-in
They’ll modulate you when you’re at the breakfast table / They’ll modulate you when you are young and able / But I would not feel so all alone / Everybody must get … modulated. Wow, that didn’t work at all. (Apologies,
Gestrument, Shaping Music with Kinect, Touch, and Acoustic Ensembles [Videos]
Swiping through clouds of timbre and melody, using Gestrument is an experience of a different musical animal. Jesper Nordin and Kymatica / Jonatan Liljedahl created the iPad version, available now for ten bucks. But it’s worth looking at that side by side with Gestrument for Kinect, as the same metaphors can translate across input methods. […]
Music Videos from NYC's Aurora Halal: Do Video Synths Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dripping with vividly-acidic synthetic analog textures that wash in and out of shot footage, the new music video for Maryland, USA artist Maxmillon Dunbar is a dreamy reverie of light and image. It’s a bath in color, swept up in the warm glow of the single “Loving the Drift.” Brooklyn-based, DC-born artist Aurora Halal is […]