Visualists, here’s the info on the GPU in the new Macs, Surface Books

The audiovisual performance is very much alive as a medium. I’m just coming off two festivals full of inspiring, stunning live visuals (alongside installations and virtual reality artworks). (One was MUTEK Mexico, the other the AV-centric Lunch Meat in Prague.) Live visuals are the definition of an edge case, to be sure – artists appropriating […]

Flocking Forms of Strings, in New Visual Performance Set to Ligeti's Music

Partituira – Ligeti – {Excerpts} from Abstract Birds on Vimeo. In the visual etude “Partitura-Ligeti,” dense constructions of abstract three-dimensional shapes fold in on one another, as if the lines of the score’s staff have become living muscular tissue, materializing into an architecture of musical form that quivers and bends. Shapes and particles flock like […]

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2012

Flocking Forms of Strings, in New Visual Performance Set to Ligeti’s Music

Partituira – Ligeti – {Excerpts} from Abstract Birds on Vimeo. In the visual etude “Partitura-Ligeti,” dense constructions of abstract three-dimensional shapes fold in on one another, as if the lines of the score’s staff have become living muscular tissue, materializing into an architecture of musical form that quivers and bends. Shapes and particles flock like […]

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2012

With New vvvv Beta, Texture Sharing on Windows; Syphon Envy, No More?

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2012

ArKaos Video Mapping is Coming to Mac and Windows; Exclusive Hands-on Video, Images

Peter Kirn - March 26, 2012

Black Friday: Free Synths+Effects from Cakewalk, Plus Steep Discounts

Peter Kirn - November 27, 2009

Google O3D: Mind-Blowing Open-Source 3D API in the Browser with JavaScript + OpenGL, DirectX

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2009

Full-screen Vista + Processing 0156 + Java 6u10 Fix

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2008

Neon VJ App Goes Open Source, Gets New Lease on Life, Makes Demo Mayhem

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2008

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