Max Mathews and 50 Years of Computer Music “Fifty years ago, in 1957, at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Max Mathews demonstrated that the digital computer can be used as a fantastic new musical instrument. He created a revolutionary software platform destined to form the basis of all contemporary digital musical systems. His audacious ideas were driven […]

I’m boarding a Greyhound bus for Boston and the Ideas in Motion weekend of Boston Cyberarts, two packed days of events on dance, motion, interactive technology, artificial intelligence, and augmented bodies: Boston Cyberarts Festival 2007 – Ideas in Motion: The Body’s Limit If you’re in Boston, stop by and see us! I’ve been preparing two […]

Next week in Brooklyn I’ll be collaborating again with MAKE:Magazine, Etsy, and Popular Science. This month’s theme: paper. Paper Projects Night [makezine.com] Even if you’re not in the New York area, if you’ve got a paper-based music project of some kind — instruments (working) made out of paper, interactive paper sculpture, whatever, drop me a […]

Pictures of cats and blogging are a cliche — but that cliche happens to be true. And it extends down the long tail (ahem, so to speak) to our little niches. Yes, there really is a blog dedicated to pictures of cats and synths. Not weirded out yet? Via Matrixsynth earlier this month (and evidently […]

In 1983, Panasonic presented a bold future of videography, one in which cameras adjusted exposure and focus all by themselves, and we would sling portable VCRs over our arm to film ourselves doing interpretive jazz dance as the sun set over the Pacific. We would have terrific legs and short shorts, and dance with the […]

HD4NDS’ Mike has been working at the RED booth at NAB, and has a post filled with exclusive stuff, including a short film Peter Jackson shot with the cameras, new RED products coming, and photos with production versions of the camera. Check it out! [tags]RED, cameras, NAB, HD4NDS, HDV, HD[/tags]

The tour with Bobby Flynn is hotting up now. Over the weekend we had two shows: In Brisbane and the Gold Coast, which meant that I spent about 8 hours of my weekend setting up and tearing down my rig, aligning projectors and screens, running cables, and running around. The tour map currently displays 16 […]

Game Mod was a workshop by Steph Thirion in Barcelona last month. The idea: take code for a simple game of Breakout, rendered in Processing, and mess it up so it looks like art. The surprise: participants weren’t programmers, and they got results in minutes rather than long hours. Game Mod [Project page, descriptions, code, […]

1080p, 3 CCDs, a couple of inches in size, and 2.3 ounces? Yep, you heard that right: Iconix Products The ICONIX HD-RH1 is a tiny HD camera, with output in SDI, DVI-D, or analog BNC, up to 1080p resolution, and apparently serious performance for “POV” applications. In fairness, only the head is this tiny; you […]

Looking for new projection surfaces, but too tired to get out of bed? Wait a minute — we may be onto something: Now, admittedly, the IKEA installation doesn’t realize the full potential of this idea. (Hey, corporate clients … you know how it is.) I think bed projection is an idea worth stealing. How adding […]