Music Tech
Funk music history and Black liberation in a full-length documentary, online
Hip hop, new wave, techno, and house are inseparable from funk history – and any discussion of funk in the 1970s demands a conversation about Black liberation. Emmy winner and MacArthur Fellow Stanley Nelson and Grammy-nominated producer Nicole London have produced a full-length history.
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The amazing classic synth and experimental moments on children’s TV
Before it reverted to Internet age-blandness, American kids’ TV enjoyed a golden age of music, scored by oddball indie composers and legends alike.
Awesome Universe of Creative Coding, Explained in Five Minutes [Video]
“What’s creative coding?” At last, we have a five-minute video that, in rapid-cut wonder, explains the answer to lay people – and can be a serious dose of inspirational adrenaline to people doing it. (If designers and artists had locker rooms, watching this before tackling that next Processing tutorial might be in order.) Cover the […]
Peter Kirn - January 7, 2013
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Animated GIFs, From Ancient Internet History to Modern Digital Fashion
Peter Kirn - June 19, 2012
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loopdiver, Dance + Technology Performance by Troika Ranch, in Full-Length PBS Documentary
Peter Kirn - August 5, 2011
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PBS Open Content: Remix That Documentary, Creative Commons-Style
Peter Kirn - May 13, 2009
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