Atari, at 50, leaves a legacy of electronic imagination in visuals and sound

It’s official: video games, or certainly their leading icon Atari, have crossed the half-century landmark. But maybe that’s why the aesthetics of some of Atari’s earliest greats now sound newly fresh – not only retro, but as something elemental no deep in music, art, and culture.

NAP 0.5.0, free realtime visual tool, adds GPU computation, Web, RasPi support, new look

NAP, the free and open-source live visualization toolkit, has an all-new look, powerful GPU computation capabilities, a Web portal … and it even runs on a Raspberry Pi. Your next installation is calling. Let’s check it out.

Peter Kirn - April 29, 2022

Musical, powerful live coding in the browser is here with Strudel – child of Tidal

Imagine a no-install, browser-based, free tool that lets you express musical ideas elegantly by typing simple code. Or for those in the know – It’s Tidal Cycles in the browser. Meet Strudel.

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2022

Tidal Club live coders are celebrating the northern hemisphere’s longest night right now

Peter Kirn - December 22, 2021

The best free tools for working with modular synthesis and music

Peter Kirn - December 7, 2021

Streaming Saturday: Catch flash crash, full of live coding stars, and Scanner on Bandcamp

Peter Kirn - October 16, 2021

SuperCollider 3.12 updates massively powerful, free sound synthesis coding environment

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2021

All the new stuff from Apple you might have missed, for advanced creative types

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2021

Watch Unreal Engine make low-latency visualizations, thanks to Arthur Barthur

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2021

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