3D’s MIDI moment: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA rally around OpenUSD

The scene format that began its life at Pixar Animation Studios is poised to become a standard for all things 3D – scenes, but also tools, data, and workflows. And yes, that could make this into 3D’s MIDI moment. It’s not that OpenUSD is anything like MIDI – it isn’t. But it has the same […]

Listen today to unparalleled musical voices: Tania León, Amy Wadge, Germaine Franco

International Women’s Day is as usual bringing attention to people who are perpetually deserving of more. This particular lineup I think is especially vital and worth tuning in today, for the breadth it covers of impact worldwide. Meet Germaine Franco, Tania León, and Melinda Newman.

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2022

Kijimi, key planet in new Star Wars flick, is named after the synthesizer

J.J. Abrams, mega-nerd – not only is the Star Wars writer/director a scifi fan, but synth fan, too. No spoilers here, but his love of a certain synthesizer comes out in Rise of Skywalker’s script.

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2019

In memory of Jean-Jacques Perrey

Peter Kirn - November 8, 2016

Hours and hours and hours of Autechre

Peter Kirn - May 20, 2016

MICKEYPHON is a terrifying giant robot head that’s also a musical instrument

Peter Kirn - January 12, 2016

Watch The Retro-Fabulous, Colorful Real-time Freakouts of Robotkid

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2013

Transforming Books, Photos in Even More Disney Research

Peter Kirn - July 24, 2013

From Disneyland to You: Q+A with Creator of Disney's Air Interaction Aireal

Peter Kirn - July 23, 2013

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