Music
Detroit’s “The Scene” dance show, 1980s: Juan Atkins and Halloween
Boiler Room? TikTok? They’ve got nothing on Detroit’s “The Scene,” the city’s own dance music show of the 70s and 80s on Black-owned WGPR-TV. And if you need a little groove in dark days, let’s turn the clock back to Halloween and Model 500 techno.
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Movements to music, as Instruments of Things goes live on Kickstarter with sensor system
Next-generation wireless and motion-sensing technologies – they’re in your smartphone already, but they’re finally coming in usable form to your music rig. And that means new possibilities for using movement as an input.
Peter Kirn - September 20, 2021
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$5 iMaschine App Grows Up, with iPad Support, New Features – And Entertains Amazing Kids
iMaschine was always an intriguing drum machine, with uncommonly-simple on-the-go audio sampling and a workflow that lets you bring drumkits back into Maschine on desktop. But it was hampered by limitations: you couldn’t set loop points properly, and there was no version for the iPad. iMaschine 1.1 doesn’t give you everything you’d ever want, but […]
Dance Technology: Proximity, with VDMX, Quartz Composer, OpenFrameworks, Syphon
Peter Kirn - February 27, 2012
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Beams of Light Meet Bodies, in Kinect-Powered Dance and Audiovisual Work
Peter Kirn - July 26, 2011
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Human Bodies the Subject of Percussive Video Composition, in New Dance Video
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2011
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