Roger O’Donnell helms his Moog at the Apple Store. Photo: Lee Sherman. Sometimes limitations can lead to the purest forms of self-expression. That’s what Roger O’Donnell found. After years of access to unlimited resources with The Cure, he decided to record an entire album, “The Truth In Me,” with but a single Moog Voyager synth. […]

In cased you missed it in comments, music-with-bikes resources continue to pour in. If you haven’t found yourself inspired to make music with bikes yet, this should do the trick. If you’re thinking of doing this yourself, here are some great thoughts on using the bike as a music controller: Discussion: Bicycle as a Max/MSP […]

I have another 2 days in Hanoi before returning to Australia. I was hoping to find an electronics market to pick up some gear to use in physical computing projects, but so far my asking around and googling hasn’t located anything. Can any Vietnam-based CDM readers help me out? In other news: I’m currently working […]

DVXUser has a concise, easy to understand explanation of colour sampling methods in digital video, with diagrams! You’ve seen the numbers: 4:2:0, 4:4:4, 3:1:1, 3:1.5:1.5, 4:1:1, 4:2:2… What does it all mean? And how does it affect your video? What’s better, what’s worse, and when does it matter? What those numbers are referring to is […]

Previously mentioned After Effects turbocharger Gridiron Nucleo Pro has been discounted from $495 to $395. Still a little steep for the indie, but considerably less a little steep, which is nice.

I have another 2 days in Hanoi before returning to Australia. I was hoping to find an electronics market to pick up some gear to use in physical computing projects, but so far my asking around and googling hasn’t located anything. Can any Vietnam-based CDM readers help me out?

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, […]