Here’s How Clever Hacks Turned Sushi Into a Music Sequencer, with Just Blaze and Tokimonsta

If you’ve ever ordered sushi from one of those rotating belts, you’ll love this musical hack that takes it to an entirely new place. For Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) Tokyo, Native Instruments engineers teamed up with Just Blaze and Tokimonsta to turn a sushi restaurant into a live electronic remix instrument. And these aren’t […]

A Giant LEGO Construction Makes Music with Maschine, Made by NI’s Devs

LEGOs and rapid, hacked construction have led to the development of hardware sold to musicians; Push and Maschine each saw hacked-together versions as prototypes before the more-polished versions we see today. So, why not use some of those toys and hacks to make something you can actually use, right now? Apparently what happens when you […]

- May 18, 2014

See Like a Bug on Acid: Visual Smash Ups, From Cameras, Simpsons + Family Guy, YouTube

Visual Smash Up from Parag K Mital on Vimeo. What happens when you distort a video with a video? It’s what artist and coder Parag K Mital calls a “visual smash up,” which he says “takes existing content and mashes it up to create new content.” Huh? Well, have a look above for an example […]

Peter Kirn - September 20, 2012

Visual Music: SketchSynth Lets You Draw an Interface with Marker and Paper, A Brief Drawn-Music History

Peter Kirn - May 17, 2012

Interview: Anton Marini on Visual Expression, Exploring Glitch, Open Community

Kyle McDonald - May 10, 2011

Sol Installation Probes Solar Energy, Uses Rapid Processing Prototyping

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2010

Unlogo Uses Computer Vision to Erase Logos from Your World

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2010

Augmented Projection with Magician Marco Tempest, Big in Japan

Peter Kirn - May 18, 2010

A Plotter Draws Pictures of Guests, Through the Magic of Computer Vision

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2010

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