Quick: you’re building a massively parallel, powerful supercomputer cluster! What computer will you use as a node? Why, the hugely-powerful Commodore 64, of course, silly! And then you’ll write music for your sixteen Commodore machines: The Vintage Computer Festival has selected Commodore 64 Orchestra to be the first to [sic] the historic Commodore 64 Parallel […]

SCART doesn’t seem to be utilized widely in Australia. I’m not sure about the rest of the world, but in Europe it’s the king of interconnects. Maybe that’s the reason that Spreadshirt don’t ship to Australia (or the US), they think that because our cultures haven’t embraced SCART we just won’t get their cool iconography. […]

I haven’t seen the World of Warcraft South Park yet, but I did manage to catch the recent stopmotion/claymation episode of My Name is Earl before I left Australia. DV.com has an interview with the production leads for the segment, containing plenty of background, logistical information on how a special episode like this takes place, […]

I haven’t seen the World of Warcraft South Park yet, but I did manage to catch the recent stopmotion/claymation episode of My Name is Earl before I left Australia. DV.com has an interview with the production leads for the segment, containing plenty of background, logistical information on how a special episode like this takes place, […]

Greetings from Vietnam! Yes, the rumours are true, I have taken a holiday. However, the initial phase of do as much stuff as possible even if it kills us hardcore travelling has passed, and I’m now in the cool, relaxed, clean and incidentally wifi-infested Hanoi. I’ve caught up on my bloglines subscriptions and wow, lots […]

The Web is becoming a more and more powerful archive for film-making that you might not otherwise see. In addition to sites like the Internet Archive / Prelinger Archives, you can now catch up on more recent film, video, and sound history, ca. the 70s and 80s, and works with a decidedly more experimental tilt: […]

DIY hardware isn’t just for abstract and noise musicians any more: visualists are getting in on the act. While on the subject of glitchy visuals from bent gaming hardware, GetLoFi reports this week on several new DIY projects to delight the eyes. The EX PMX is a homemade analog video synth that … does … […]

Thought every twist on Tchaikovsky had been exhausted in holiday seasons past? Think again: San Francisco-based composer Flip Baber (aka johnnyrandom, pictured) writes to tell us about a compositional challenge that made him turn bike parts into instruments: I was recently approached by award winning advertising agency, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners to do a composition […]