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littleBits Synth Kit Will Add USB Audio, CV, and MIDI; See Snap-Together Modular Live in NYC
littleBits has already won over some synth enthusiasts with snap-together modules you can combine via magnets, and a collaboration with KORG. But until now, the open source gizmos have been largely a world unto themselves. You could route audio in and out, but that’s it; any expansion was dependent on buying more littleBits modules. Over […]
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In Percussive Harmonies, A Record of a Year of Travel – Literally, on a Record [MeeBlip + Location Data]
Photos courtesy the artist. We have data in pictures, we have data in Facebook posts – why not data as music? In the latest data sonification project, the record of travel becomes an oddly-beautiful set of percussive harmonies. And it’s a “record” in every sense: artist and composer Brian House not only composes the data […]
Peter Kirn - August 8, 2012
Music Music tech
Proposal: A Markup Language for Turntable Scratch Performance; Open Call
Scratching, captured. Photo (CC-BY-SA) karl sinfield / sindesign. Add this to the Internet of Things: imagine data recording scratching and scratch performances. Technologists Jamie Wilkinson, Michael Auger, and Kyle McDonald propose a new way of storing scratch moves as data. They’re not just working in traditional ways, either: they’re hacking turntables and optical mice and […]
Peter Kirn - January 17, 2012
Music Music tech
DIY 3D Volumetric Displays + Kinect, Insane GIF Animation Mash-Ups, in Opening at NYC's Eyebeam
Peter Kirn - December 26, 2011
Archive Motion Music tech
DIY 3D Volumetric Displays + Kinect, Insane GIF Animation Mash-Ups, in Opening at NYC’s Eyebeam
Peter Kirn - December 26, 2011
Archive Motion Music tech
Matching Visuals to Music: Round-up of Inspiration, Eyebeam Call Due Today
Peter Kirn - May 21, 2010
Archive Motion Music tech
YouDisco: Stream 8 YouTube Videos onto a Virtual Disco Ball
Peter Kirn - June 3, 2009
Archive Motion Music tech
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