Musicifying Data? Spam Rendered in MIDI

Here’s a brief video snippet I discovered someone took at a talk I did at this year’s South by Southwest, with interaction design pioneer Joy Mountford (formerly Yahoo, Apple). We were talking about the idea of “data as art”, which happened to coincide neatly with the Design and the Elastic Mind show at MOMA, featuring […]

Thrill Giveaway Winners Announced: 3L Demo Now Available, Plus 5 Extra "Best Comment" Winners

The response to our 3L Giveaway was amazingly extensive, and also very exciting to see the names and websites of so many visualists from around the world. So we’ve collated all of those email addresses, and with a little help from some atmospheric noise we chose the winners. Grand Prize (3L Pro License) Hiltmeyer Runners-up […]

Thrill Giveaway Winners Announced: 3L Demo Now Available, Plus 5 Extra "Best Comment" Winners

The response to our 3L Giveaway was amazingly extensive, and also very exciting to see the names and websites of so many visualists from around the world. So we’ve collated all of those email addresses, and with a little help from some atmospheric noise we chose the winners. Grand Prize (3L Pro License) Hiltmeyer Runners-up […]

Thrill Giveaway Winners Announced: 3L Demo Now Available, Plus 5 Extra “Best Comment” Winners

The response to our 3L Giveaway was amazingly extensive, and also very exciting to see the names and websites of so many visualists from around the world. So we’ve collated all of those email addresses, and with a little help from some atmospheric noise we chose the winners. Grand Prize (3L Pro License) Hiltmeyer Runners-up […]

Casio Exilim EX-F1 in the Wild: Slow-Motion Invades the Mainstream

Slow motion technology has been making huge leaps into affordability recently, and now that the Casio Exilim EX-F1 (check the review on luminous-landscape.com) is publicly available, youtube has suddenly been flooded with new high-FPS content, and I think we can safely say that slow-mo has hit the mainstream. With Sony’s CMOS cameras we’ve had affordable […]

Pre-Release of Pro Tools 7.4 for Leopard; Why Patience Could Pay Off

The good news: Digidesign has made a pre-release version of Pro Tools 7.4 (all versions — M-Powered, LE, and HD) available for Mac OS X Leopard. You’re advised not to install this on a critical system and to keep regular backups, but if you’ve got a new machine waiting for a Leopard-ready version, you can […]

LittleGPTracker Hits 1.0; Free, GP2x, Linux, Mac, Windows, Does Lots of Stuff

LGPT, shirt optional. (Just in case you long for a tracker you can play topless.) Starpause jamming, via the LGPT site. Our friend Marc (“M-.-n”) writes to let us know version 1.0 of music tracker (think alternative sequencer / music making tool) LittleGPTracker is here, with quite a lot in the way of new features. […]

Mainstream Multi-Touch is Coming, And It’ll Rock for Music

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7 When I reviewed JazzMutant’s Lemur at the end of 2005 (printed in the February 2006 Keyboard Magazine), I wondered if what we were really waiting for wasn’t a computer screen. At the time, I wrote: There’s no question that multi-touch touchscreens represent the future of computer interfaces, and the Lemur […]

Kontakt Creative Abuse and Scripting, Modular Reaktor Goodness, More On Kore@CDM

If you haven’t been following the Kore @ CDM site, we’ve been picking up some great tips from contributors Peter Dines and Eoin Rossney. This video has inspired me personally to dive a little deeper beneath the shrinkwrap on Kontakt 3, particularly with its scripting capabilities: Creative Abuse of the Kontakt Sampler Peter Dines’ tutorial […]

Comment of the Week: “I don’t want play in the club”

Photo: Home Taping Is Killing Music, (CC) andy in nyc. This is a profound comment on so many levels. I’ll let it speak for itself: Yes, you can contact with me. But, if you would want that I played on your party on cassettes, then I refuse. I do not play on cassettes any more. […]