Vectors are getting their own festival: lasers and oscilloscopes, go!

It’s definitely an underground subculture of audiovisual media, but lovers of graphics made with vintage displays, analog oscilloscopes, and lasers are getting their own fall festival to share performances and techniques.

Creative software can now configure itself for control, with OSC

Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of manually assigning every knob and parameter, software was smart enough to configure itself? Now, visual software and OSC are making that possible.

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2018

What culture, ritual will be like in the age of AI, as imagined by a Hacklab

Machine learning is presented variously as nightmare and panacea, gold rush and dystopia. But a group of artists hacking away at CTM Festival earlier this year did something else with it: they humanized it.

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

Patchstorage is a friendly site packed with free visual and music patches

Peter Kirn - June 7, 2018

Inside the livecoding algorave movement, and what it says about music

Peter Kirn - May 29, 2018

8BitMixtapeNEO is a glitchy hackable synth the size of a cassette tape

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2018

Open music gear: Bastl Instruments schematics on GitHub

Peter Kirn - April 3, 2018

This custom TR-09 controller is also a great starting point for DIYers

Peter Kirn - March 16, 2018

Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120

Peter Kirn - February 22, 2018

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