Oh. Snap. Soundsnap, that is — a community site with tens of thousands of free sound samples, ready to use in your project. People can be annoying. I imagine some of you really don’t like people much, and I hear you. If you do like people, though, and whole communities of them, you may have […]

Greetings, programs! Pablo Valbuena’s “augmented sculptures” are gorgeous … and, yes, do recall a certain ground-breaking Disney sci fi film. It’s been a long time coming, but projection is slowly making its way out of the single, flat rectangle that so often constrains it. (Not that we don’t love single, flat rectangles, of course.) The […]

Greetings, programs! Pablo Valbuena’s “augmented sculptures” are gorgeous … and, yes, do recall a certain ground-breaking Disney sci fi film. It’s been a long time coming, but projection is slowly making its way out of the single, flat rectangle that so often constrains it. (Not that we don’t love single, flat rectangles, of course.) The […]

Reed Ghazala, popularly accepted as the Father of Circuit Bending, writes us with his latest creation: Long coming, here’s a finalized version of my Magnetic Patch Bay on the Fractal Oscillator prototype that I published last spring/winter (2007). [It’s] a Yamaha PSS-6, circuit-bent, and with my magnetic patch bay added on the rear panel. The […]

Making interfaces more transparent … literally, in this clever shot by Steve Roe. Touch and multi-touch interfaces are getting lots of attention, but they pose one major problem: there’s no tactile feedback. Those supposedly “primitive” buttons and knobs and such start to look a lot better when you realize your fingers are used to touching […]

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 […]