Ah, Motion Theory. We lover their work already. And now, in one brutal blow, they simultaneously produce: A kick-ass video for Weezer. A love letter to YouTube and Internet memes — watch through to the end. It gets denser. An instant on-screen “How much of a geek are you?” quiz. A video that should throw […]
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Live Inspiration: Latest from Mutek, Movement Music + Visual Festivals
Photo: Peter Dines for CDM. CDM’s Peter Dines and Liz McLean Knight (Liz literally on her honeymoon) are keeping us posted with the latest events from Detroit’s Movement and Montreal’s MUTEK festivals. You can keep track of their travels and live impressions on our new CDM events blog, and I look forward to some artist […]
Asus Eee As Cheap, Tiny Music PC: Guitar Rig 3, Linux Tips
The Asus Eee PC is unlikely to be your first choice of laptops for music. But it’s small, it’s cute, and it’s ridiculously cheap. Some CDM-reading computer enthusiasts are biting, as we found out in March when we asked you if you had turned the Eee PC into a music box. On the Linux side, […]
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. […]