Visualist Johnny DeKam’s M-Audio-powered rig for the Thomas Dolby tour. Thomas Dolby, on Music Making Past and Future: The CDM Interview Thomas Dolby Extras: Live Performance Technical Details, Logic + Max/MSP Thomas Dolby’s recent tour was important for more than just the music, though — onboard was legendary visualist/VJ Johnny DeKam, also known as a […]

Several readers have observed this quite eloquently, but let’s summarize: laws around music are complicated, messy, and confusing. If they don’t seem that way to you, you’re either a lawyer or you haven’t done your homework. That said, without question, proposed changes to streaming music licensing fees would be devastating to Internet radio, because not […]

For those not in the know, Steve Reich is one of the major so-called “minimalist” composers of the 20th Century; some of his early works of the 1960s focused on compositions made from tape loops falling out of sync or “out of phase” with one another. This includes the seminal works “It’s Gonna Rain” and […]

Photo randomduck. At the 1985 Grammies, Thomas Dolby played alongside Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. It was the golden age of synths and keyboard-driven pop. (Yeah, I know, some of us kinda miss those days.) But Thomas Dolby is significant, as well, as one of the pioneers of the computer-driven one-man band. Almost […]

Users are reporting a number of serious problems with QuickTime 7.2; see our sister site, Create Digital Motion, for more. (Or head straight to MacFixIt, though already we’re hearing isolated reports that haven’t even hit MacFixIt yet.) Possible symptoms: difficulty with Adobe applications, Rosetta failing to work entirely (yipes!), video file problems, and more. This […]

Yesterday Apple released iTunes 7.3.1 and Quicktime 7.2. With updated h.264 transcoding, numerous bug fixes and free fullscreen support for those without Quicktime Pro. It also provides iPhone exporting options and seems to enable 640×480 captures from certain iSights which were limited to 320×240. Oh, and it breaks Rosetta. Ok, not to be overly sensational, […]

As noted in my Blackmagick Intensity review, we noticed some odd behavior with Quartz Composer introducing some very large latency from the Intensity Card. We some noted up to 45 frames of delay. It looks like this may very well be a bug with Quartz Composer, as Apple is now aware of the situation: From […]

This could be an very interesting option for VJ’s. Sony has updated the PSP line with some nice additions, slimmer (thus the PSP Slim moniker), longer battery life and decreased load times. But, we dont really care about those. What we care about is video output support: Adding a video-out port(*1) enables new PSP users […]

Photo: geodesic. Cricket sound: provided by you. Hear that? Nothing. No, it’s not silence making a political point, as with the Internet Radio Day of Silence staged last week by web radio to protest punishing new royalty rates by showing what they could cause. This is an even more disturbing silence: as the deadline for […]