If there’s one thing I’ve learned since coming on board to help Peter with CDM it’s this: The kids love a portable recorder. The Edirol R09 and Zoom H2/H4 articles are among our most popular ever. Now Korg are supplementing their existing multi-track digital recorders with the 20GB, pocketable MR-1 (US$899 MSRP), and the 40GB, […]

I was about to post about Daniel Shiffman’s new MPE (Most Pixels Ever) Library, when what should appear in my Processing Blogs subscription, but an extended video showing more of the ITP lab, and The Shiff (first ever rockstar processing nickname? I hope so) himself talking about the project. Preface: If you love Processing – […]

I was about to post about Daniel Shiffman’s new MPE (Most Pixels Ever) Library, when what should appear in my Processing Blogs subscription, but an extended video showing more of the ITP lab, and The Shiff (first ever rockstar processing nickname? I hope so) himself talking about the project. Preface: If you love Processing – […]

I was about to post about Daniel Shiffman’s new MPE (Most Pixels Ever) Library, when what should appear in my Processing Blogs subscription, but an extended video showing more of the ITP lab, and The Shiff (first ever rockstar processing nickname? I hope so) himself talking about the project. Preface: If you love Processing – […]

8-bit music has definitely caught the attention of the mainstream. GameSpy has a good five-way interview with part of the group behind the new album of Kraftwerk covers, 8-bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk. 8-Bit Operators: It’s More Fun to Console They miss my friend Kim Haeyoung (Bubblyfish), who made one of my favorite tracks […]

I’m off to Hawaii for a week, where I will not be testing any field recorders, as our friend at O’Reilly Digital Media did. I will instead try to absorb the atmosphere and let it influence music. I’ll let you know how that goes. In the meantime, both CDMs are in the capable hands of […]

Amon Tobin has launched a new website, full of floating sea creatures and a Star Trek:TNG-style Flash interface. (Via friend-of-Create Digital Motion Eternal Gaze.) The good news here is, if you dig in the Media section, you’ll hear some gorgeous new clips from his new album Foley Room, due out March 6. It seems Amon […]

The Week of Deep Apple Electronic Music Patent Mysteries continues! Behold as Apple submits a patent for — as near as observers can tell — detuning oscillators with common beats. Let’s switch to synthesis 101 for a second. Detune two oscillators, and destructive interference between them will create beats. Apple’s patent claim: “The present invention […]