DIY + Unusual Motion Software Tech
Watch Troika Ranch’s history in dance technology, then dust off your Wiimote with Isadora
Return to the days of MIDI-controlled LaserDisc players – Mark Coniglio, creator of Isadora, walks through this history of the work of Troika Ranch. It’s an incredible microcosm of where dance tech has come for – but you can do stuff today with Isadora, too, like finding a use for that Nintendo Wiimote.
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Motor Synth is brutal, electro-mechanical synth – last days of discount
Gamechanger Audio’s Motor Synth is a devastating industrial machine – with actual motors driving the sounds, all built in Latvia. Here’s everything you need to know about it, as this week is the end of its steep crowd funding discount.
KOMA’s Field Kit, connecting contacts pickups, and motors, is now reality
So much of the idea of signal and the definition of an audio “mixer” is fixed, we’ve begun to take these concepts for granted. Microphones plus line level, into some faders — that’s what a mixer is. But why does it have to be that way? By creating a new instrument around connecting to contact […]
Peter Kirn - April 7, 2017
Music Music tech
Volnovod is a robot sculpture that uses wire to make sound visually
Peter Kirn - January 25, 2017
Music Music tech
Redefining Architecture, in a Dance of Lasers
Peter Kirn - June 24, 2013
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