What do you play? Berklee adds electronic digital instrument program

Musicians have majored in trumpets and voice, conducting and reeds. Now, they can choose the “electronic digital instrument” at Berklee College of Music, as music education works to redefine itself in the post-digital age.

On the Eve of New 808 Film, Techno’s Roots Matter More Than Ever [Videos]

If rock music had the Gibson Les Paul and Fender Stratocaster, hip hop and dance music have the TR-808. And if its sound seems sometimes overly familiar, even that is in some sense a hat-tip (pardon the pun) to its enduring ubiquity. Now, the Roland TR-808 gets its own full-length documentary, told primarily through the […]

Peter Kirn - March 11, 2015

In Boston, a VJ Competition, and a Glimpse Inside the Live Visual Scene

Along with New York, Boston was really my introduction to what was happening in live visuals and VJing. So, I already took interest when a couple of friends sent word of a VJ competition in Boston. Then, of course, things in that city turned very strange indeed. The festival “Together,” scheduled in May, couldn’t have […]

Peter Kirn - April 17, 2013

From Wires: Keith Fullerton Whitman’s Modular Music, Conversation with CDM, 12 Hours of Music

- April 16, 2013

3D VJ: Video Features Audiovisuals in Three Dimensions at Thunderdome

Peter Kirn - November 19, 2009

Visualist Profiles, monome Visuals, and a Processing Workshop + Audiovisual Lounge in Boston

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2009

Next Projection Frontier, Going 3D? Head Tracking, Stereoscopy

Peter Kirn - September 10, 2009

The $7 Motion Graphics Conference Heads to Boston

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2009

Learning Processing Hands-on Workshop in Cambridge, MA

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2009

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