Live visual tool Resolume (Avenue / Arena / Wire) gets yet another bump release – this time with Dilate, Sharpen, and Kuwahara Effects plus some nice usability improvements in the interface.
Music
Kitbashing, by ABADIR and Nicolò Cervello, is AV subversion of endless algorithmic scrolling
“Kitbashing” is an AV protest, a hard-hitting burst of fresh air, as producer ABADIR and media artist Nicolò Cervello are here to break you out of endless scrolling by transcending its materials. From the fragments of our algorithmic existence comes 17 minutes of liberating sound and light.
iKeleton OSC captures skeleton data on iOS, sends via OSC – free through May 5
Developer/musician/media artist Gwangyu Lee has made an app for iPad and iPhone that captures skeleton data and sends it via OSC. It’s free this week, and includes a complete tutorial (for use with any tool) and a TouchDesigner example.
Game Boy Advance gets a new, free step sequencer, complete with p-locks
Dust off that GBA: it’s a groove box now. Stepper is a free and open source 16-step sequencer with full access to the onboard sound engine and per-trigger parameter locks, Elektron-style. (And this pairs well with Elektron gear, as the developer shows.)
Teenage Engineering’s new CM-15 field mic looks like a marvel of design
Some of Teenage Engineering’s high-end design offerings sometimes seem made for design showcases as much as actual music making. But behold the CM-15: this is a gorgeous concept in an area that rarely sees genuinely new design. If it works as advertised, it seems like a new product category.
A new documentary tells the story of Wisisi, electronic music in West Papua
In the mountains of West Papua, a new electronic sound is emerging. It’s fusing traditional sounds with jaunty synthesized beats in a rapid-fire, high-energy dancefloor brew. And just try to listen without your whole body set in motion.
Baby Audio’s new Yamaha CS01 plus FX extras is killer — shoegaze or acid
Effects maker Baby Audio debuted their first synth plug-in this week. It’s modeled on Yamaha’s CS01, the analog monosynth that came before better-known rival Roland SH-101. And packed with cute extras and effects, it’s simply irresistible.
Roland updates Jupiter, Juno plug-ins – and finally fixes their preset UI; here’s a tour
Roland updated their Roland Cloud software recreations of the JUPITER-8, JUPITER-4, and JUNO-106. That includes new UIs, and finally a usable preset manager. Here’s a look, including one terrific sound feature.
Arturia FX the latest to get the Elisabeth Homeland Ableton Live wrapper treatment, and whoa
Elisabeth Homeland’s wrappers let you use popular effects plug-ins as if they were native Ableton Live device UIs – saving you from opening floating windows. The latest collection is the most ambitious yet, with the skeuomorphic Arturia effect interfaces.
Go watch this mind-bending video with SØS Gunver Ryberg and DEFASTEN
Intertwined threads of color and timbre become a flowing, organic visual trip – like flowing through endorphin-flooded neurons. Visualist Defasten has teamed up with Danish composer SØS Gunver Ryberg in a perfect illustration of the glowing optimism of her new album, SPINE. Patrick Defasten and Gunver Ryberg talk about the project as they premiere it […]