NAP 0.5.0, free realtime visual tool, adds GPU computation, Web, RasPi support, new look

NAP, the free and open-source live visualization toolkit, has an all-new look, powerful GPU computation capabilities, a Web portal … and it even runs on a Raspberry Pi. Your next installation is calling. Let’s check it out.

Canilla’s love ballads sing from code and dismantled accordions; LP first listen here

The ruins of fractured accordions are reanimated with hybrid mechanical-digital constructions, to sing the imagined love ballads of a wounded forest. Canilla’s latest creation deserves a full listen – so let’s premiere it here together, right now.

Peter Kirn - May 13, 2021

Fantastic Voyages, a simulated Tascam Portastudio, and a voice from isolation

From his machines’ novel ideas like neural network distortion to AV installation made from DNA, Giorgio Sancristoforo is a defiant, powerful musical voice – coming to us from deep in pandemic quarantine.

David Abravanel - March 30, 2020

The Monolith is a huge synth powered by Teensy, shown at Maker Faire

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2017

Robert Henke, finding beauty in ever-iterating work with lasers

Peter Kirn - May 5, 2017

Enter the wondrous world of Walter Giers’ electronic sound art

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2017

Sony’s gestural projector could change interaction

Peter Kirn - January 10, 2017

Meet Eurorack modules with literal dirt, radiation, coded viruses

Peter Kirn - September 28, 2015

Silk is a giant string instrument that makes Bitcoin into music

Peter Kirn - September 16, 2015

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