DIY + Unusual Tech
The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials
The acoustic principles are the same as wind instruments (and pipe organs). But there’s something eerily beautiful about wind organs – and they’re easy enough to make. bassling from Australia sends in this how-to from Australia, to get you started. There, of course, it’s fall, meaning this could be viewed in the “spooky Halloween” territory […]
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Holodeck DJ: I played techno on an XR stage – here’s what it was like
There are cameras. There’s video and 3D. What happens when you create a futuristic mixed reality space that combines them, live? I headed to a cavernous northern New Jersey warehouse to find out.
42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller might be just the vision we need right now
Electronic creativity has always embraced futurism – not uncritical futurism, but visionary imagination that leads out of apocalypse and dystopia. So there’s no time like the present for someone like Buckminster Fuller.
Someone built a strangely accurate Berghain in Minecraft
Peter Kirn - June 4, 2019
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SPIRALALALA transforms a spiral staircase into a vocal vortex
Peter Kirn - October 29, 2018
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Radical electronics on a grand scale: Berlin Atonal in its fifth reboot year
Peter Kirn - August 10, 2017
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Inside Zeno van den Broek’s raw immersive AV architectures
Peter Kirn - January 18, 2017
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