Music Stories
In Slovakia, the rave goes on: social distancing with a taped-off grid for dancers
How do you party without putting people at risk – but without killing the reason for partying in the first place? Here’s Slovakia with a novel concept. It’s not that we haven’t had ideas for nightlife in the era of social distancing. It’s that a lot of those take something crucial away. Here in Berlin, […]
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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 […]
Responsive Kinect Dancing Goes Hip-Hop [Video, Tips]
Body mapping and dance/visual fusions are still explored only in fits and starts, compared to the extent of live music and visual performance in other media. So, it’s encouraging to see this latest experiment from dancer Christian Mio Loclair. Working with Microsoft’s Kinect, the slowly-undulating tendrils of visuals behind him create visual counterpoint for headstands […]
Peter Kirn - May 13, 2013
Archive Motion Music tech
Augmented Dancing: Kinect Maps Video Onto a Moving Body
Peter Kirn - March 22, 2011
Archive Motion Music tech
MIT Students Build USB Dance Floor in Dorm
Peter Kirn - April 13, 2005
Music tech
Make Music with Dance Dance Revolution Pads
Peter Kirn - April 13, 2005
Music tech
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