Latest TouchDesigner visual tool streams for free, integrates with Ableton Live, and a lot more

While you’re staring at your walls, maybe it’s the perfect time to realize the kind of trippy visuals that happen in your dreams. That ranges from beginner-friendly Ableton and streaming integration to advanced physics.

Watch Elsa Garmire’s pioneering laser show from 1972 – futuristic and expressive even now

Forget that cheesy Pink Floyd stuff from the planetarium. Scientist Elsa Garmire used optic chops to make lasers into a real instrument – and her work holds up today.

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2020

Visualize pitch like John Coltrane with this mystical image

Some musicians see Islamic mysticism; some the metaphysics of Einstein. But whether spiritual, theoretical, or both, even one John Coltrane pitch wheel is full of musical inspiration.

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2019

Put some physics in your MIDI with this iOS Audio Unit

Ashley Elsdon - August 2, 2018

Sail to Samos with vintage BBC to find Pythagorean tunings

Peter Kirn - July 27, 2016

Your unconscious meat body plays this online drum machine

Peter Kirn - May 9, 2016

A major breakthrough in physics is heard, not seen

Peter Kirn - February 16, 2016

These Students Put Out Fires with The Power of Bass

Peter Kirn - March 31, 2015

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