Rax, the clever audio effect and instrument host for Mac, got a major update last year with performance rigs, custom visualizer support, and a slick UI designed by plasq. It’s an ideal tool for loading up some instruments and effects and playing on your Mac, especially if you want software that gets out of your […]

A quick call to our New York readers: for various reasons, I’d like to know in advance some particular “featured projects” for the September 27 Handmade Music held by CDM + Etsy + Make. If you’re available and have something you can show, please contact me immediately.

Because hipsters love Theremin-y crutches. Okay, music fans: reach the very vanguard of geekiness, and you can become an entirely new demographic — the Nerdster. Or so says direct marketing guru Lauren Bell for DMNews, who much to my surprise reviewed the most recent CDM + Etsy + Make “Handmade Music night in Brooklyn”: Last […]

The crafting and DIY worlds are oddly divided, as are, too often, music making and hand-making other stuff. And with these divides comes a rather pronounced gender divide, as well. At the Maker Faire, the gender balance — while not fully split — was more than a little noticeable in the Craft and Make areas […]

Olly Farshi from Defunktion.net writes to share their interview with Toshio Iwai and a performance via podcast. I’m not sure that I agree with Olly that the TENORI-ON has generated a “hurricane of hype” (maybe more like a rain shower of enthusiasm), but they’ve got a terrific interview. Mr. Iwai talks about how the relationship […]

Updated: Okay, maybe I’m flying off the handle on this one, after all. iLounge reported incompatibilities with the new iPod video output capability. They put it this way: Without disclosing the change to customers, Apple has locked the TV Out feature of the iPod classic and video-capable iPod nano, preventing users from outputting iPod content […]

Updated: Okay, maybe I’m flying off the handle on this one, after all. iLounge reported incompatibilities with the new iPod video output capability. They put it this way: Without disclosing the change to customers, Apple has locked the TV Out feature of the iPod classic and video-capable iPod nano, preventing users from outputting iPod content […]

iLounge is reporting that the new iPods released wednesday require some sort of authentication/DRM chip for video output cables to work. Apparently, existing video output solutions from 3rd parties that work with the 5G/5.5G video iPod do not work on the Nano and the Classic (the iPod Touch is not currently shipping – but assumed […]

Electronic musicians, gamers, and fans of the Asian Underground movement will be pleased to hear that noted composer/producer Nitin Sawhney has composed the soundtrack for the anticipated PS3 title ‘Heavenly Sword’. Sawhney is best known for his Mercury Prize-winning album ‘Beyond Skin’, his production of the Cirque du Soleil soundtrack for ‘Varekei’, and his recent […]

Game and film composer Gary Kibler is back from Tuesday’s TENORI-ON launch event with words and images reflecting upon this new instrument. (See comments for lots more discussion, of course!) And for some reason, he’s been playing with his mashed potatoes… -Ed. See also: Yamaha TENORI-ON Launch: Photos, Videos, Interviews, Demos, Details, and a Music […]