fugwhump has uploaded a fantastic free kit of drum sounds, built with a Eurorack modular synth. It’s licensed as Creative Commons, so you can use it free. ccMixter even includes features for linking your own work (remixes, podcasts, videos, webpages, albums), in case you do decide to use it. It’s nice, fat, raw sounding stuff. […]

In addition to Halloween-themed music mixes to entertain you this weekend, sounds and images from experimental to trance are echoing through the Internets this week. We’ve got the details on Create Digital Motion. For visualists and a range of out-there-leaning audiovisual and sonic acts, France and the rest of Europe have a festival streaming online: […]

It’s campy horror sounds, remixed into digital music — the perfect way to celebrate the holiday! From our friend TRASH_AUDIO’s Surachai, who’s on the compilation: We have teamed up with Cock Rock Disco to compile a horrific compilation of the very best campy 80’s horror movies ever made, remixed by some of the greatest digital […]

Happy Halloween, everybody. It’s the one day out of the year when the rest of the planet enjoys spooky sounds as much as we do, well, all year long. Solid State Logic (SSL) is celebrating with a free plug-in for Mac and Windows (VST / AU). Registration is required, but otherwise, no strings attached. They […]

If you’re not in to fluorescing trance, then perhaps the Cinesthesy Festival may be more your speed. Starting now and extending through Saturday is a mammoth lineup of fantastic AV acts from France and across Europe. Live video chat by Ustream Featuring French VJ blogger extraordinaire Le Collagiste (playing at the time of this posting), […]

Noise.io – the iPhone Synthesizer from ToyoBunko on Vimeo. Noise.io became available on the iTunes App Store this week, with a “pro” app US$9.99. I’m not going to say too much about it, instead focusing on getting a review done over the weekend. (I still wish there were an easy way to capture video output […]

It seems that live streaming gigs have really taken off recently. Either that or we’re just paying more attention since the fantastic NetLag show. Either way, there’s a bevvy of live streaming performances ready to entertain you this weekend. Taking the stage tonight at 11:30PM EST (check the time) from the USA is 6-piece AV […]

shift v.2, audiovisual installation at Museet for Samtidskunst from hc gilje on Vimeo. HC Gilje sends along Shift, an “audiovisual landscape that combines multichannel sequencing, audio generated by video, and mapping/masking projection onto physical objects.” In short, big blocks become a sonic, visual sequencer through digital audio and projection. It’s really evocative to me, and […]

One of the wonderful things about control data is that there’s no saying you only have to interface with software and digital worlds: you can connect directly to the real world, too. Digitally-sequenced music can use acoustically-generated sound. 20th Century technology, meet 19th Century technology. CDM reader Gareth Edwards writes to let us know about […]

The uber-hip Monome controller is some of the new hotness to grow out of OpenSoundControl support. Photo: George P. Macklin, aka Granular Matter. You hear plenty of chatter about the powers of OpenSoundControl, the open, high-res, network-savvy control protocol for music and visuals. But standards are no good without implementation — and some implementations just […]