Richard Lainhart, Prolific Composer and Artist, Dies at 58; Links to His Work

Richard plays Handmade Music in 2007; full video at bottom. I’m saddened to learn of the death of Richard Lainhart, the New York-based composer and artist who has been inseparable from the experimental electronic scene for many years. I knew Richard to be a gentle and imaginative soul, an inventive technologist, someone capable of dreaming […]

A DIY iPad Audio Dock, with Instructions, from Father of Circuit Bending Reed Ghazala

What are those alien, otherworldly sounds coming out of the iPad? That’s not GarageBand. It’s what happens when Reed Ghazala, the father of circuit bending some decades ago, meets the iPad. Not that it’s his first encounter with products from Apple – he’s been approaching that company’s hardware as he does everything else, prying unexpected […]

- May 30, 2011

Flickr Find: Harmonic Patterns on a Playground

Photo (CC-BY) Jan Tik. We celebrate 3.14, PI day, with some selections of mathematics, music, and visualization… Sometimes the results resemble scores, sometimes toys, and sometimes – more rarely – real musical instruments. But part of why I love computing as a window into music is its ability to visualize music’s mathematical beauty. I happened […]

- March 14, 2011

SKTCH: Generative iPhone Drawings, Shared Among a Community of Artists

Peter Kirn - May 10, 2010

CDM and Creative Commons “Non-Commercial” Images

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2009

Motion Reels: Starcraft MSL Gaming from Korea

Peter Kirn - July 14, 2009

Images from OFFF: When Designers Make MacBook Graffiti, and Other Pictures from Portugal

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2009

Animated Mascots Describe What Advertising Means to Them, in Animata

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2009

Painting with ActionScript: Code Artwork by Patrick Gunderson

Peter Kirn - March 9, 2009

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