Looom for iOS makes animating like playing a musical instrument, now with major update

It’s exactly how musicians would want to think about animation. Time loops, free or bpm-synced, and you explore visual rhythm through lines, shapes, colors, and improvisatory gestural doodles. Looom is a total gem of an app – and this summer’s update transforms it into a serious and approachable pro tool.

Free book traces the revolutionary link of graphic to sound, in Xenakis, UPIC, and legacy

Electronic sound is in theory a limitless blank canvas. Iannis Xenakis and his work imagine what image of sound could fill that page – and leaves a legacy that’s still radical today.

Peter Kirn - April 17, 2020

fluXpad is an insanely immediate music drawing tool for iPad

Make an interface simpler, and you might push your musical expression further. That’s the realization you have using fluXpad, a new drawing app. It’s not that it’s a dumbed-down rendition of other tools. It’s that doodling with sounds is a totally different experience than the point-and-click fine editing you might be used to.

Peter Kirn - September 6, 2016

Robots, Mimicking Bees, Cover a Room in a Drawn, Unbroken Line

Peter Kirn - January 14, 2013

Light + Shadow Meet Drawing in Sougwen's Chiaroscuro; Music Meets Design with Ghostly [Videos]

Peter Kirn - October 5, 2012

Light + Shadow Meet Drawing in Sougwen’s Chiaroscuro; Music Meets Design with Ghostly [Videos]

Peter Kirn - October 5, 2012

Skateboard + Lit Sparklers + Computer Vision = Flaming Light Drawing

Peter Kirn - August 31, 2012

With ‘This Exquisite Forest,’ Animations That Evolve, Collaboratively

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2012

With 'This Exquisite Forest,' Animations That Evolve, Collaboratively

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2012

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