This’ll work great! (Artist rendering; final product may differ.) Bach manuscript image (CC-BY-SA) Nathan Siemers. Mock-up created by the createdigitalmusic.com Future Prediction Department… intern. Kotaku notes that Rock Band 3‘s icons tease something we’ve been awaiting a long time — keys. It’s ironic that in order to make guitars playable in games, they were effectively […]

Autechre are back, following up a set of live dates and March full length release with yet another full-length on Warp and more dates, this time beginning at the end of August in Perth, Australia and heading off to Slovakia, Poland, Japan, and Greece. Best to let you hear the new full-length track, available for […]

Whether iPhone, Android, pico projector, or whatever, we’re living in a world that’s increasingly filled with displays. Much of the focus in the visualist world has been on big — huge buildings, huge grain silos, massive projections screens, and the like. But there’s good stuff to be had in the opposite direction. Now, full disclosure: […]

Reader Franz (Franz Keller, VJFranzK) has been blissfully happy with a Tenori-On-inspired application for Apple’s iPad, and he’s committed his enthusiasm to video. I love his presentation style, a bit like a cheery authoritative voice from a vintage newsreel. From his description: Aurora by 4Pockets for iPhone, iPad etc. The newest amazing synth program to […]

protodeck first demo from Julien Bayle on Vimeo. Speaking of special Abletronic miracles out of reach of most mortals, meet the Protodeck. Inspired by Robert Henke’s legendary Monodeck, it’s an all-stops-pulled bundle of delicious overkill. The specs are — insane, really. 87 potentiometers 90 buttons 81 rgb leds 2×20 LCD 2 PIC 18F4620 (20MHz RISC […]

Since I’m in a vacation state of mind this week, here’s a diversion – though one, potentially, with deeper spiritual revelations. You’ve seen saviors in toast, but have you seen software in sausage? Michael Schieben writes: “It just was there!” Production tools are a part of life, for better or for wurst. Disclaimers: No promotional […]

This post, by definition, overlaps with the worlds of Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion, so I’m cross-posting — absolutely not one you want to miss, both because of the event in New York, and because the landscape of works here engages issues about which readers here I know are passionate. Music and visuals […]

Steve Jobs’ (or Apple’s, or some new Fake Steve Jobs who now uses Steve’s IP and email) responds to VP-8 with nothing other than a URL. So I guess I’ll do the same: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/jobs_on_vp8/ And yes, back to our regularly scheduled Create Digital Motion programming. We’ll rejoin the ongoing saga of HTML5’s video tag later. […]

Yes, I admit it’s getting better. And that could mean more choices for creative music software makers. Photo (CC-BY) Pittaya Sroilong. Android 2.2 boasts enormous boosts to performance in Java, JavaScript, and the browser, plus nice end-user features like tethering and tons of developer goodies. But developers interested in pushing the multimedia capabilities of the […]