A massive free crash course in visual powerhouse TouchDesigner, including RTX goodies

The Interactive & Immersive HQ has launched a beginner series focused on making expressive media with TouchDesigner. It’s a chance to focus on all the power of that tool while getting over the intimidation. Oh, yeah – and they even cover the latest-and-greatest magic of NVIDIA’s RTX platform. Put that new GPU to work.

Playtronica’s Orbita explores sequences on physical, kinetic turntable, launching soon

Inspired by objects like wall clocks and reel-to-reel tape machines, Orbita is a sequencer whose interaction is physical and kinetic, via small discs placed on a turntable. The twist is, it’s not just a design demo – you’ll be able to buy one yourself.

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2021

Worlds as instruments, as artists collaborate in VR using modular metaverse Patch

This summer, across four continents and eight time zones, artists have gone beyond just playing in virtual reality. They’ve been making their own new instruments and worlds there.

Peter Kirn - August 19, 2021

The Guthman competition is looking for futuristic instruments – and you can apply

Peter Kirn - September 2, 2020

Apollo 13 is playing out live, now, in a story told in newly-restored sound

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2020

Begone, webcams: Dixon will premiere an album in gorgeous 3D mixed reality, today

Peter Kirn - April 3, 2020

Learn synthesis basics in your browser, free, with Ableton

Peter Kirn - June 26, 2019

An exploration of silence, in a new exhibition in Switzerland

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2018

SPIRALALALA transforms a spiral staircase into a vocal vortex

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2018

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