Watch a full-length electronic documentary from the 90s, and more free videos

America’s on-again, off-again love affair with electronic music – often, with idioms it helped create – is endlessly full of unexpected twists and turns. But all this bears examining. For some, it’s a journey back to the music that first inspired them. For others, it’s a chance to learn, perhaps, how where music has been […]

The Player Piano with Drums and Gunshots: An Oddity of the Silent Film Era [Videos]

If you want wild, futuristic, and inventive, some of the craziest inventions come from the past. The Photoplayer makes today’s music tech look positively dull. Joe Rinaudo has made a business of bringing back antiques, but his 1926 Photoplayer may top the list. Built to add dynamic soundtracks for silent films, the machine is an […]

- April 2, 2014

Dance, Mapping, Face-Stimulation, and Other Wonders: Daito Manabe's Greatest Hits

Apply this stimulation directly to your retinas. Our friends at YouTube “curator” Network Awesome have assembled some of the best work of Daito Manabe, the Japanese visual and physical computing genius who consistently finds delightful new expressive uses for technology. And by assembling some stunning documentation, they’ve produced a playlist of excellence that can guide […]

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2014

Dance, Mapping, Face-Stimulation, and Other Wonders: Daito Manabe’s Greatest Hits

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2014

John Cage at 100: A Celebration in Words, Listening, and Prepared Piano iPhones

Peter Kirn - September 5, 2012

120 MB Picks Up Where MTV Experimental Vids Left Off [Berlin Launch Party + CDM, Videos]

Peter Kirn - June 27, 2012

Love Letters to Chroma Key: Network Awesome Kicks Off Four-Week Series on the Green Screen

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2012

Remembering Adam Yauch, and the Videos You Probably Haven’t Seen That Should Make You Smile

Peter Kirn - May 11, 2012

Network Awesome Electronic Music Week: Way More Electronic Music Videos Than You Can Handle

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2012

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