New Film Scoring Site; Mac mini, PC Sampler Farms for Samples

The music technology blogosophere continues to expand, now with an excellent new site dedicated to film scoring. The site also has a bonus: its name begins with the word “Create”, which means it can join CDM’s unofficial “Create [Stuff]” network! Create Film Scores Jerome Leroy, an L.A.-based music systems technician, is editing the new site. […]

Weekend Physical Computing DIY: Strip an Inkjet Printer for Parts

Since receiving my Arduino I’ve found myself looking at technology a little differently. As your post-production skills increase you tend to watch videos thinking: “I could do that”, or “I could do that if someone gave me lots of money and got out of my way”. In my post-Arduino life I now look at technology and […]

Bear McCreary: Rocking the Electric Violin on Battlestar Galactica

Film/TV composers have a particular interest here on CDM in that they tend to think creatively about style, instrumentation, and sound in their work and have to meld one technology (music) with another (film). It’s Friday night, so having resisted this long, I can no longer avoid mentioning Galactica. Composer Bear McCreary, who has scored […]

Museum of Techno Halloween Special: You Try to Explain MIDI Drunk

In a release that is sure to be as treasured a part of the computer musician’s Halloween as “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” is to normal people, the electronic music world’s most insane “instructors” are at it again. Hilarity results: Museum of Techno Halloween Special: MIDI Control [Novation Xiosynth ad site] Be careful, as […]

Deep-Geeking in Norway: Arduino, DIY High Speed Cameras and More Videos from Piksel06

From CDMo reader and forum member Grigori: Piksel 06 (thats in Norway) has just been and gone and they have left tons of great info and resouces for people to check out.. http://www.piksel.no/piksel06/talks.html http://bekstation.bek.no/piksel/piksel06/video/arduino.ogg Just scroll down through heap of stuff on talks.html page and pick your faves. I highly recomend tosee the stuff by Thomas Vriet and […]

Superstar VJs: DJ Mag Readers Pick World's Top 20 Visualists of 2006

Peter Says: VJs in the mainstream? It’s happening, as VJs pick up gigs at huge headline events, tour with big-name acts, and even receive recognition from MTV. (You know, music television, remember them? They’re the folks that created the term VJ, only it meant something entirely different, and now they show neither music nor visuals, […]

Superstar VJs: DJ Mag Readers Pick World’s Top 20 Visualists of 2006

Peter Says: VJs in the mainstream? It’s happening, as VJs pick up gigs at huge headline events, tour with big-name acts, and even receive recognition from MTV. (You know, music television, remember them? They’re the folks that created the term VJ, only it meant something entirely different, and now they show neither music nor visuals, […]

2xHD (Hard Drive, High Definition) and 240FPS: Sony HDR-SR1 Camera Review

CamcorderInfo have posted a review on the new Sony HRD-SR1 tapeless HD camcorder. It records AVCHD (MPEG-4/H.264 based) format to an internal 30GB drive, which will apparently give you 4 hours of recording. Sounds great! I’m completely sick of buying, labelling and especially rewinding tapes – it feels so ridiculous – and while the computer based capture options are […]

Adobe Soundbooth Beta: Export Markers for Flash; Sound Editing for Visualists

Adobe keeps churning out apps and betas; the latest is a new lightweight audio editor called Soundbooth. I’ve done a detailed look at the beta for Create Digital Music, but here’s why visualists should be excited. First, of course, Adobe is building the app to try to court the Photoshop and Flash crowd to audio […]