DIY + Unusual Music Tech
The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk
Prince was way ahead of non-fungible tokens – with a symbol that was intended to make life a pain-in-the-a** for the record label. (Non-f***able totem?) And now Anil Dash and Limor Fried/Adafruit have brought back that image from a floppy.
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Livecoding glitch, eye-searing colors, AI poetry, and the knowledge to make it yourself for free
The latest absolutely eye-popping work made with free live-coding tool Hydra comes from artist Naoto Hieda, with sound by the duo Ekheo (Aude Langlois and Belinda Sykora) and some eerie AI poetry. If that didn’t melt your brain entirely, you can follow along with tutorials to harness the powers of Hydra, too.
Peter Kirn - November 22, 2021
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KMRU on spaces, Nairobi, and turning off Ableton Live’s grid
It’s a film about tuning into the spaces around you, but KMRU makes an argument for being more than where you’re from. And to open up possibilities, he also does the thing I expect a lot of you know you want to do but might be afraid to do – turn off the grid now and then. Even in the software known for it.
Listen to this mix of sounds and music on the theme of phase transitions of water
Peter Kirn - November 8, 2021
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