How Latvia’s Flow used open source Blender in Oscar animation win

Flow was the surprise of the Oscars: a true underground hit from Latvia’s writer/director Gints Zilbalodis. It’s beautiful, expressive, and intimate in a way that big-studio features are not. And it’s a triumph of making the tech operate on a human level, fully exploiting the free and open source Blender and its real-time render engine EEVEE.

Bandcamp unveils interactive Listening Parties

Listening Parties are a new feature on Bandcamp that do what it sounds like they do. Play your release, talk to fans, and let folks buy the album.

Peter Kirn - August 8, 2023

Music videos come to Game Boy Advance carts, in the ultra-chillwave world of Slow Magic

Video killed the radio star, then reality TV killed MTV, then social media killed the Internet. Well, it’s back, all of it. Sort of. The Game Boy Advance will save us. And that brings us back to some retro Asheville chillwave from the more innocent age of 2012.

Peter Kirn - August 18, 2022

Crank it up: A noble and elegant simulation of playing French Horn for Playdate

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2022

itch.io indie gaming distribution for musicians: free open-source Scritch player and more

Peter Kirn - March 28, 2022

From Hong Kong, broadcasts of expansive experimental and underground music

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

Streaming Saturday: Catch flash crash, full of live coding stars, and Scanner on Bandcamp

Peter Kirn - October 16, 2021

Modular synthesis gets reimagined as puzzle game with The Signal State

Peter Kirn - September 28, 2021

Fresh picks to download from Bandcamp – essentials of experimentalism and groove

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2021

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