Eric Singer, creator of musical robots and maestro of LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, has unveiled a new wireless sensor-to-MIDI interface. It’s quite a bit pricier than the non-wireless MIDI models at US$495, but the payoff is a complete kit for wireless performance that promises to be resistant to both latency and […]

Mike is predicting that Warner’s backing of Blu-ray spells the end for HD-DVD. I’m not necessarily sure I’d want Sony to “win”, I strongly dislike their history of introducing media formats that nobody needs, and their track record on DRM is heinous. However I agree that it would be great if something would win, so […]

Any CDM readers who live in Chicago should check this out- it’s a weeklong festival exploring/celebrating sound design, motion graphics, and the overlapping regions occupied by both. In addition to the week’s worth of discussions and skillsharing classes, there will be two “showcase” nights, Saturday Jan. 19th and Sunday Jan. 20th. For those interested, I […]

i drank the kool-aid has posted a little guide which linked to Momo’s last QC tutorial, “Lighting 3D Cubes and Moving them with Audio Input“. Unleash Your Inner Creativity (and Programmer) with Quartz Composer is a very quick and simple overview which covers loading an image, scaling it and moving it around, but this is […]

Ed.: DVJing sometimes seems more a dream of hardware manufacturers than something in the real world — until you get a talented DVJ going. We’re a bit late on posting this as it got lost in the shuffle of drafts, but well worth checking out, anyway. -PK Jonny Wilson from Eclectic Method has got his […]

Open-source darling of the PC VJ world, OpenTZT is calling out for developers. Our plea is going out to any Coders out there that would be interested on working on the OTZT codebase, or if anyone knows of anyone that might. I’m hoping to be able to reward anyone that takes the challenge on both […]

It’s happening. Slowly, slowly, VJ as term that means “host of silly music video show” is being supplanted by VJ as “master of live visual performance at a club or other venue.” In the meantime, though, we get to enjoy unintentionally hilarious images, like this one, found at music video cable network Fuse. Okay, hilarious […]

You liked Gary Kibler’s all-Korg KAOSSilator album just a little too much, and his bandwidth is gone. So, if you’ve had any trouble getting at the music, we’ve got a brand new link on ReverbNation. But that raises another question. As it happens, CDM community member FauxAudio was just asking about hosting music files on […]

Yuri’s Night 2007 makes your head go all Sputink-y. Credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. Synths and space: they go together like chocolate and your mouth, like Sun Ra and aliens. So, it was with a heavy heart that I had to report the electronic awesomeness of Yuri’s Night, the party in celebration of space […]

In my excitement over the addition of OpenSoundControl (which could just as easily be called OpenVisualControl) to VDMX5, several commenters noted I wasn’t giving props to all the apps that do support OSC. There’s Isadora, for one, a favorite among dancers and VJs (and our friend Momo the Monster), and semi-hidden support in Modul8. Cyberpatrolunit […]