Fragmented textures, interactive RNBO-powered video: Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh

Composer Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, known for her concert outings, shifts to a lushly organic electronic album in flowing, humming, fragmented electronics for her debut album as a producer. And it comes with an interactive music video powered by Max and RNBO, so if you’re in the mood to VJ yourself, flying around some Gaussian splats, here’s your chance.

Harvestworks, NYC arts center founded in 1977, threatened by US funding cuts

Harvestworks, the storied arts center in NYC that has been a hub for electronic music and media since its 1977 founding, is making an urgent appeal. Cuts by the Trump administration’s National Endowment for the Arts threaten the space.

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2025

Therminator, with a curvy abstract glyph of a box with cables and a dot in the center engraved into the 3D-printed case, USB-C and jack connections

Ther’minator by Eric Singer transforms LIDAR to modular, CV

Eric Singer is back. The interactive artist and inventor helped the idea of robotics and alternative interfaces break out to wider audiences over the past decades – and now he’s gearing up to put LIDAR in your modular rig or other devices with analog CV inputs.

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