Widgets are all the rage these days. The idea is, artists create a little miniature music player you can embed anywhere (MySpace, blogs, etc.) with their tracks. Fans buy music via the widget, and the artist gets a cut. Hometracked has an exceptional round-up of widgets with feature comparison. (It’s about time someone took the […]

Look out: it’s the return of the cartridge! We’ve seen loads of chiptune and Nintendo-based music before, but Alex Mauer has gone so far as to release an entire album on NES cartridge (and emulator, if you must). Some of you wondered what the preferred setup was for the chiptune virtuoso; for Alex, it’s evidently […]

Peter keeps pestering me to post this video, so here you go: Red Iceblock Melting Outside Timelapse. This was shot in my Pentax *ist DS, with an old, beat-up, 50mm F1.4 lens I picked up in Vietnam. The “intervalometer” in this case is even more ghetto than the electronics kit I put together a year […]

I could personally produce really elegant, beautiful web code … if I made origami out of it, like so. Simon Pow on Flickr suggests what to do with your code errors. We’ve got some big ideas for the future of Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion, and we need your help. Everything you like […]

In my computing life I’m very much into segregation. Until recently I’ve worked exclusively with PCs and have always had 3-4 machines around, each installed with a certain set of tools to do a specific job: Workstation with After Effects, Photoshop, Web Development tools, Content stuff… Laptop with Mail, IM and other communication/organization stuff. Server […]

Believe it or not, you’ll stick this into the side of your computer. Bizarre but adorable, Gibson has turned their iconic 1959 Les Paul guitar into a miniaturized replica, a functioning USB 2.0 1 GB Flash Drive. It will store data. It will not make any sound. But it does have specs that you, erm, […]

Yeah, we need someone who can basically do this. Brilliant photo by Ezu, via Flickr. We’ve got some big ideas for the future of Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion, and we need your help. Everything you like here now will stay. We’re just adding some carefully-chosen features around it, overhauling the community side […]

Producer, composer, and percussionist Dennis DeSantis has a free Live Pack out for Ableton Live, in case you missed it in the Computer Music (UK) Live special. Dennis is my kind of guy: a recorded, commissioned composer with work all over the place, a player with the excellent Alarm Will Sound, whose arrangements of Autechre […]

If you liked the news that the powerful synth-sampler-sequencer-pocket music studio software Syntrax was free, here’s even more software for your Windows Mobile device. Download Squad’s Brad Linder has done a terrific round-up, complete with sound samples and screen grabs: Making music with Windows Mobile – Mobile Minute Some, like Pocket Stompbox and a Theremin, […]