Drop Spin Fade: Gestural, Game-like Sound Control in 3D

Chris O’Shea sends along his latest project, a collaboration with sound designer and composer Owen Lloyd called Drop Spin Fade. Part of the Future of Sound tour, Drop Spin Fade allows users to position, sculpt, and play with sound in a 3D environment using gestural control. Drop Spin Fade The music/sound environment: Through a series […]

Derraindrop's Hand-Painted Video Synths and Organs

Handmade instruments aren’t so unusual in the audio and music world, but in the trickier land of videoism, they’re a relatively rare breed. These are some recent works from Derraindrop: The Rocky Top video synths (the “splattered” model is shown above) are available for sale at US$280, in beautiful handmade boxes. I’m honestly often disappointed […]

Derraindrop’s Hand-Painted Video Synths and Organs

Handmade instruments aren’t so unusual in the audio and music world, but in the trickier land of videoism, they’re a relatively rare breed. These are some recent works from Derraindrop: The Rocky Top video synths (the “splattered” model is shown above) are available for sale at US$280, in beautiful handmade boxes. I’m honestly often disappointed […]

Off to Aspen for Ben Fry's Processing Workshop

Ben Fry’s Anemone is a generative illustration created from web traffic – a web traffic creature! (I need one in material, sculptural form on my desk so I know when I need to “water” Create Digital Motion so it doesn’t wilt!) I’ll be out next week at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado, […]

Off to Aspen for Ben Fry’s Processing Workshop

Ben Fry’s Anemone is a generative illustration created from web traffic – a web traffic creature! (I need one in material, sculptural form on my desk so I know when I need to “water” Create Digital Motion so it doesn’t wilt!) I’ll be out next week at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado, […]

Morphing Faces: It's Cool Again

My significant other, who aside from working for a major art museum is an authority on good taste (or at least things that taste good, which is far more important to me), let me know this video even wins cred among art historians: You’ll recall that way back in 1991, we were all pretty blown […]

Morphing Faces: It’s Cool Again

My significant other, who aside from working for a major art museum is an authority on good taste (or at least things that taste good, which is far more important to me), let me know this video even wins cred among art historians: You’ll recall that way back in 1991, we were all pretty blown […]

Brian Eno on Painting with Light, Painting with Seeds, for 77 Million Paintings

Brian Eno, as one of the masters of generative music, naturally has some deep things to say about generative visuals. Since we’re always interested in the fusion of the two, that’s all the more interesting. Here he is, talking about his project 77 Million Paintings: I love that Eno’s ideas are always clearly expressed and […]

Brian Eno, with Wright on Spore and Generative Systems, Sound, and Paintings

It’s pretty stunning to watch Brian Eno, one the major pioneers of our time in terms of thinking about musical form, onstage with Will Wright, one of the major pioneers of our time in terms of thinking about game design. Here’s Brian Eno in conversation with Will Wright, chatting about the kind of generative systems […]

Serial Logic: New Steve Horelick Tips for Logic Pro, Including (Gasp) the Environment

Breathe deeply. Listen to Steve Horelick’s soothing voice. And you, too, can take on the Environment. Steve Horelick, the composer and Logic guru who’s produced work for HBO, ABC, PBS, Ford, Volkswagen, and IBM and was just nominated for an Emmy for his years of work on Reading Rainbow, has a new Logic Pro training […]