Kids Making Music: Interactive Music Box Draws Experience from Games

Ten minutes. Four or five kids (or adults). Make a song. Go. That’s the idea behind the Youth Music Box, developed by Silent Studios and Chris O’Shea. (Our friend Chris you may recall from various interactive projects and the blog pixelsumo; he sends this project our way.) The software is build in openFrameworks, the C++-based […]

Disembodied Heads Meet Serato: Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo. Marvin Suggs and his Amazing Muppaphone was just way, way ahead of his time. But if you haven’t already seen it making the rounds, you owe yourself a little video watching break to check out Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs, Inc., an audiovisual dreamscape in which disembodied heads […]

Apple Logic Studio 9 Review for Macworld; What Stands Out

Flex Time is likely to be the feature that will have the biggest impact on users, by making audio more malleable. Logic has been a big box of sound toys for some time, but I think what decides whether you really build a working relationship with software like Logic is whether you like editing in […]

Mac OS X 10.6: Quartz Composer 4.0 Hands-On Review, New Features

Ed.: Many of Snow Leopard’s improvements – new, under-the-hood enhancements for 64-bit and multithreading – don’t impact visual creation right away. But significant changes to Quartz Composer could be the most useful, most immediate reasons to look at the latest version of Apple’s OS. Resident Mac guru Anton Marini looks at those changes for CDM. […]

Weekend Inspiration: "Artificial Paradise, Inc" Short Film, Onedotzero Festival Approaches

JpFrenay writes: I wanted to send you my new experimental shortfilm “Artificial Paradise,inc”. It’s has already been selected for this year’s onedotzero festival in the WOW+FLUTTER 09 section. It’s also featuring in the Autodesk Siggraph 09 showreel. ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, Inc from Jp Frenay on Vimeo. Spectacular stuff! For those in or around the UK, onedotzero […]

Weekend Inspiration: “Artificial Paradise, Inc” Short Film, Onedotzero Festival Approaches

JpFrenay writes: I wanted to send you my new experimental shortfilm “Artificial Paradise,inc”. It’s has already been selected for this year’s onedotzero festival in the WOW+FLUTTER 09 section. It’s also featuring in the Autodesk Siggraph 09 showreel. ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, Inc from Jp Frenay on Vimeo. Spectacular stuff! For those in or around the UK, onedotzero […]

Simple Snow Leopard Advice: Wait, and Claim Disk Space with Monolingual

We return to our normal, non-Snow Leopard-specific coverage next week. You can continue to follow https://cdm.link/snowleopard for updates. In the meantime, I offer this editorial. I’m going to make this as straightforward as possible: I recommend running the current Mac OS X 10.5 over other versions of the operating system, including 10.6 launched today. The […]

Snow Leopard: MOTU Confirms 10.6 Drivers; Working on 64-bit Support?

MOTU did not respond to CDM’s inquiry regarding Mac OS X 10.6 – but they have just posted the most interesting update I’ve seen yet. They have drivers ready for their hardware today, and (nearly) full compatibility for their entire product line. They also suggest that 64-bit support is in the works for their applications, […]

Snow Leopard Watch: Ableton, Propellerhead Respond

Okay, that’s technically not a snow leopard, but I came pretty close, right? Photo (CC) Mark Kenny. For the latest on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), be sure to check out our full round-up. It’ll be regularly updated through the coming days. We have updates from Propellerhead and Ableton. Basically, the message is what […]

PS3 Eye Camera Drivers Updated for Windows: Fixes, Performance, Options, Awesomeness

Whoo! That’s three cat/leopard/dog photos in a roll! And now… I’ll stop. Photo (CC) csullens, who I hope doesn’t object – do you need model clearance for felines? What counts as really big news in my special technology world is, I’ll admit, a little different than everyone else. But it’s tough to really convey the […]