Music Stories
Interview: Michael Vincent Waller connects concert music and hip-hop
From La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela to Valee and Gangsta Boo, Michael Vincent Waller talks to us about collaboration, mixing, and connecting the dots between modern Classical/new concert music and hip-hop.
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RNBO 1.3.0, now a powerful RasPi raw MIDI tool – plus, chats with Max artists
Cycling ’74 quietly released an update for RNBO, their tool for patching sound for web, plug-ins, and hardware. Here’s a look at what’s new, plus their lovely Office Hours series with artists like Jessica Ekomane and Suren Senevirante (My Panda Shall Fly).
Peter Kirn - May 18, 2024
DIY + Unusual Music tech Tech
Watch Videosync visuals in Ableton Live, plus Beam for lighting, Max
If you missed it earlier this fall, Tarik Barri has a great walkthrough of Videosync, the live visual software integrated with Ableton Live on the Mac. Bonus – from the same dev, Beam lets you perform live with lighting, and we can see that in action, too – plus there’s an early-bird edition just for Max.
RNBO (“rainbow”): Start in Max’s UI, deliver to plug-ins, Web browsers, hardware, any OS
Peter Kirn - November 1, 2022
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Tech Web
Cycling ’74 asked artists to make a collaborative Max drum kit – and shared the patches
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2022
Music tech Software Tech
Bespoke visual noise is the next domain for Robert Henke – so let’s revisit Perlin, anyway
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2022
DIY + Unusual Motion Tech
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