TouchDesigner POPs course gets your brain around geometry for visuals

In a world that’s definitely trying to make us dumber and more depressed, let’s grow our brains instead. Our friends over at Derivative have a free course that finally makes it easy to start working with POPs — the Point OPerators that enable all that wild 3D geometry you see in live shows and installations.

Unreal Engine 5.1 goes wild: what’s new from foliage to generated sound

In an epic year for Epic, November does it again. Unreal Fest 2022 brought a bunch of sessions on the latest from Unreal Engine, from sound to visuals. And it’s worth making sure that doesn’t fly under the radar of creative musicians, composers, and visualists, especially because there are some updates in their unique audio engine, too.

Peter Kirn - November 24, 2022

Geometric meditation – peace in Arash Azadi’s “Healing Light Through Stained Glasses”

The topic keeps coming up – how to find mental peace and remain centered even in tumultuous times. Iranian-born composer Arash Azadi is uniquely able to create those kinds of spaces in his music.

Peter Kirn - October 14, 2022

FUSE for vvvv is a visual revolution – free, always-runtime patching right on the GPU

Peter Kirn - September 23, 2021

Chocolate and peanut butter for visuals: Houdini and TouchDesigner, in a free talk today

Peter Kirn - January 21, 2021

Visualize pitch like John Coltrane with this mystical image

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2019

This music video generates landscapes from a wild alien duo’s music

Peter Kirn - May 2, 2017

Sneak peek of HYVE, a 60-note touch synthesizer

Peter Kirn - October 28, 2015

Outside dance music, systems of contemplation with Inner8, sYn

Peter Kirn - July 30, 2015