Drink up — just not too much, or your playing could wind up a tad … jittery. Photo (CC-BY) Lali Masriera). Let’s get together and play music. The Morning Music & Coffee Consumption series, an informal gathering of artists, aims to do just that. The assumption about digital music production may be very different – […]
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Terrific Tablet Wireframes in Adobe Proto, as Adobe Touch Picture Comes Together on iOS, Android
Wireframe tools are all the rage, but you have to take particular note of the design work done by Adobe Proto – partly because they’re an industry heavyweight, but also because the app itself is generally cool. (Why Adobe then insists on dry presentations of cool apps, I have no idea. Anyone want to do […]
Watch: Pairing Innovative Live Visuals with Music, Pittsburgh's VIA Festival Couples Off Artists
You’ll know live visualism has arrived when visualists regularly “headline” the way music does. But if you’re tired of waiting, look no further than Western Pennsylvania, where Pittsburgh’s spectacular Via Festival this week is doing it right. See what they’re doing for a great example of what’s possible when visualists and musicians meet — and, […]
Watch: Pairing Innovative Live Visuals with Music, Pittsburgh’s VIA Festival Couples Off Artists
You’ll know live visualism has arrived when visualists regularly “headline” the way music does. But if you’re tired of waiting, look no further than Western Pennsylvania, where Pittsburgh’s spectacular Via Festival this week is doing it right. See what they’re doing for a great example of what’s possible when visualists and musicians meet — and, […]
Insane: A Full-Sized Panzer Tank, Made a Modern Mobile Music Station and Art with Treads
“Panzer” is beyond any mobile studio you’ve ever seen. It’s basically a tank with speakers and a cockpit containing beat-making gear. (Mackie mixer, Roland sampler, Akai MPC, Korg KAOSS, as near as I can see, plus … the machinery to drive the tank.) From the description: Minidumper, Holz, Stahl, Kunstharz, Glasfaser, Audioequipment, Sound 2011 And […]
A Killer Performance Grid in Renoise Shows Off This Hackable Music Tool
If you just want to fire up Renoise, the modern tracker/music production app, and not worry about the fact that its innards are hackable, you can. But for a reason why you might at least want to explore customization of this music tool, give the video above a look. It starts sleepy and slow … […]
Face Sequencers, Sonic Databases, Automatic Dub Remixes, More Montreal Music Hackday Hacks
Hard at work at Music Hack Day Montréal. Ed.: Hacking Web databases to search sounds, remixing tools to automatically create dub tunes, cameras to sequence and analyze images in new ways, Montréal hackers have been busy. Trevor Knight writes from the event with full coverage from Canada, latest outpost of this global music coding phenomenon: […]
Thomas Kurzhals (KARAT) Bleeds on a Moog; Music Before the Berlin Wall’s Fall
You’ve seen a musician or two, no doubt, jamming away on a Moog synthesizer. But German band KARAT’s keyboardist Thomas Kurzhals really tears into it. Chris Stack, formerly of Moog and now producing the Experimental Synth series we cover with some regularity, shot this video interview / performance set, and tells us: I don’t think […]
Musical Robots from Refuse, Pyrotechnic Dancers, and More Czech Wizardry: Stanley Povoda
The very word “robot” comes from a Czech author, Karel Čapek and his 1920 sci fi theater work R.U.R.. In terms that resonate today, class, economics, and freedom play into that narrative, as Čapek introduced not only a word but the modern concept of android. So, it’s fitting that the Czech Republic would be the […]
Motion Candy: A Dull Road Trip Becomes Elegant, Subtle Short Cinema in 'Sisters'
The beauty of the visualist movement is sometimes, amidst spectacle, you get little gems of creative ideas. Those could, in turn, become the imaginative original products used in live visual sets. And for those who can appreciate such work, even an everyday moment can become creative fodder. Florian Dobler managed to fight the boredom of […]