With its touchscreen input, compact size, internal Nintendo-style synth, and wireless Internet connection, the Nintendo DS has a lot of appeal for music use. The challenge is how to hook it up to a computer. TheRain has a hardware hack called DSMIDI: with a little soldering and hacking, you can connect the DS to a […]

Our own Jaymis has left CDMotion for a couple of weeks for something called a “vacation”, but he’s left a terrific gallery of images from the Elements 7 / King Unique event in Brisbane. In an intimate club venue, Jaymis fired up his full live performance VJ setup, complete with Behringer controllers and Resolume video; […]

It’s visual inspiration time: Enough with getting depressed about culture and the future. I’m convinced we’re on the brink of a new Renaissance, and thanks to the power of the Web, you don’t just have to go to one place (Florence, Paris, New York) — you begin to realize the multi-talented visionaries are everywhere you […]

It’s visual inspiration time: Enough with getting depressed about culture and the future. I’m convinced we’re on the brink of a new Renaissance, and thanks to the power of the Web, you don’t just have to go to one place (Florence, Paris, New York) — you begin to realize the multi-talented visionaries are everywhere you […]

It’s not hard to imagine a world in which customized game tools become simple 3D environments for producing truly original visuals — work that looks unrelated to the game engines that power it. The fact that 3D engines are designed for real-time operation makes them even more appealing for live visuals and VJ work. Artists […]

Man cannot live by synthesizers alone. No, really; even I’m not that dedicated. I keep something to nosh on while I work; don’t you? So, while this time last year I was celebrating the keytar (thanks for the reminder, matrixsynth), here we’ll go off-topic and say that good food and time with family and friends […]