Who says laptop artist can’t connect? Decibel 2010: 12 Planet. Photo (CC-BY) VeryBadLady / Heather. Ed. Seattle’s Decibel Festival is, as one commenter put it, a convergence of music straight out of many of our music collections. Musician, producer, and journalist Primus Luta (David Dobson) is on the scene to bring us a vicarious experience […]

Photo (CC-BY) Kristian D.. Pick up a pen and draw a sketch. There, that was easy – however crude, you can get out an idea. Sketching with paper is still the fastest way for most of us to imagine something. But between that immediacy and the end result, you need prototypes. The Processing language has […]

Here’s a truly creative application for 3D printing technology: make elegant, cloud-like letters in foam that drifts off into the blue. It’s suggestive of the kinds of creative use of printing from the digital to the physical that may lie ahead. Thanks to Matt Ganucheau for the link, which, judging from YouTube views, has been […]

Multitouch remains a terrific way to control live visuals — but improved response and accuracy would be welcome, if new hardware delivers as promised, as well as finer control via stylus input for drawing applications. On Create Digital Music today, I point to some interesting news regard Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet. This could be the […]

Party like it’s 1991 – your browser’s invited. A full-blown music production tool has been directly ported from the desktop to the browser using Flash, modeled with a tracker-style interface for fast, precise music editing. (In fact, a tracker, thanks to speedy entry from a QWERTY keyboard, seems to me an ideal interface for browser […]

Speaking of Android and mobile, when it comes to reliable multi-touch on inexpensive devices, iOS has really been the only game in town. As I’ve noted previously, competing requires a usable multi-touch chipset. It seems one such chipset is making its way to a shipping product. Matt Gallant points us to our friends at Engadget: […]

It’s a week of mobile geekery and music as I travel to Stockholm. I’m speaking at the Android Only developer conference; I’m excited that there’s discussion not only of Android development per se, but also networking, the open-source CouchDB database (which itself has some promise for music projects), cross-platform development in JavaScript and dynamic languages, […]

Few synths in memory have created the amount of pre-launch buzz that the Teenage Engineering OP-1 has. Looking like a futuristic, luxury spiritual successor to the Casio VL in its compact brick form factor, the OP-1 combines computer-like synthesis features with a unique approach to virtual tape sampling and step sequencing, all viewed on its […]

Synaesthesia from We're So Digital on Vimeo. More cross-sensory work, this time employing paint, cameras, and sound, as artists continue to explore the threads that connect media. Synaesthesia is an interactive performance/installation exploring alternative digital music interfaces and the relationship between colour and sound, creating a relational experience between the artists, users and the audience. […]

Synaesthesia from We're So Digital on Vimeo. More cross-sensory work, this time employing paint, cameras, and sound, as artists continue to explore the threads that connect media. Synaesthesia is an interactive performance/installation exploring alternative digital music interfaces and the relationship between colour and sound, creating a relational experience between the artists, users and the audience. […]