Web based, international “unextinguishable tire fire, except in video. 40 rabbits on Nyquil who all think they can sing Country Road.” Wreck and Salvage will be going live soon with the first installment of Tricorn. Tricorn Borgnine Promotional Device from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo. The show will consist of live long-form collaborative remixing from Nelson (Netherlands), […]

The creator of the wonderful glitchDS, repeaterDS, and cellDS Nintendo homebrew music apps has turned his sights to the free and open coding-for-artists desktop tool Processing. The result: a drum machine that mutates and morphs in wonderful ways via a command-line interface. (I almost put the command line bit in the headline, but while I […]

As packed as the global calendar for digital events can be, there are certain spots where you just say, “damn, I wish I had been there” — and the Mapping Festival in Geneva, Switzerland fits on that list for us. The good news: there’s still time to mark your calendar for May in Switzerland, and […]

Jay Smith of Livid Instruments may be in the business of making controller hardware himself, but that doesn’t stop him from appreciate the knob-laden goodness of the NAMM show floor. Jay’s own gear reveals a not-so-secret love of knobs and buttons and faders, and if you’re into that sort of thing, this year’s NAMM music […]

We’ll Do it Live: How Real-Time is Changing Visuals View more presentations from peterkirn. (tags: motion graphics computer vision) Last Friday at MGFest Chicago, I gave a short talk on what real-time can mean for visuals. The crowd had a large contingent of traditional motion graphics designers – my own presentation was followed by a […]

Our friend and interactive hero Gustavo Bravetti must have been inspired by all the talk of hexagonal sequencers, because he’s come through with a brilliant prototype of a new interactive sequencer design. He writes: I just wanna share mi first very unfinished and at ultra alpha stage, hexagonal sequencer prototype! Between many things, I have […]

We get the “where do I go to learn this stuff” question a lot in the inbox. With Max for Live coming later this year, bringing the powers of Max to Ableton Live, I imagine the hunger for knowledge on that tool will be all the greater. (At the same time, I think the growing […]

Alternative titles for this post: “Progress Bars and Existentialism” “A single video encapsulates everything I have to say about the nature of time as reflected in interface design” “When the (*&$& is this damned wait cursor going to stop spinning, and why did it start spinning in the first place?” “Real-time – or its nearest […]

Photo by MOS, via The New York Times: Slideshow – Coming to P.S. 1: Cones, Domes, and Huts. Every summer, modern art museum P.S. 1 in Long Island City transforms its outdoor courtyard into an architectural institute. On the grounds on which school kids once played at recess, art lovers, folks from the neighborhood, scenesters, […]

Photo by MOS, via The New York Times: Slideshow – Coming to P.S. 1: Cones, Domes, and Huts. Every summer, modern art museum P.S. 1 in Long Island City transforms its outdoor courtyard into an architectural institute. On the grounds on which school kids once played at recess, art lovers, folks from the neighborhood, scenesters, […]