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 […]
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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 […]
Boot Camp Won't Support S-Video, VGA Video Output on Windows
Suddenly, that dual-booting Mac isn’t looking like such a value: Boot Camp Beta 1.1: VGA adapters, Mini-DVI adapters are not supported Reader Robotkid notes S-Video won’t work, either. So, in review, if you want to boot your new MacBook into Windows XP, all will be fine — unless you happen to need to connect video […]
Boot Camp Won’t Support S-Video, VGA Video Output on Windows
Suddenly, that dual-booting Mac isn’t looking like such a value: Boot Camp Beta 1.1: VGA adapters, Mini-DVI adapters are not supported Reader Robotkid notes S-Video won’t work, either. So, in review, if you want to boot your new MacBook into Windows XP, all will be fine — unless you happen to need to connect video […]