Live coding group toplap celebrates days of live streaming, events

What began as a niche field populated mainly by code jockeys has grown into a worldwide movement of artists, many of them new to programming. Onekey group, TOPLAP, celebrates 15 years of operation with live streams and events.

TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0

Live coding environments are free, run on the cheapest hardware as well as the latest laptops, and offer new ways of thinking about music and sound that are leading a global movement. And one of the leading tools of that movement just hit a big milestone.

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

Jlin, Holly Herndon, and ‘Spawn’ find beauty in AI’s flaws

Musicians don’t just endure technology when it breaks. They embrace the broken. So it’s fitting that Holly Herndon’s team have produced a demonic spawn of machine learning algorithms – and that the results are wonderful.

Peter Kirn - December 10, 2018

The guts of Tracktion are now open source for devs to make new stuff

Peter Kirn - November 16, 2018

Watch this $30 kit turn into all these other synthesizers

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2018

Vectors are getting their own festival: lasers and oscilloscopes, go!

Peter Kirn - August 7, 2018

Creative software can now configure itself for control, with OSC

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2018

Apple to open source, cross-platform GPU tech: drop dead?

Peter Kirn - June 5, 2018

Here’s what to learn to get a jump start on the new monome thing

Peter Kirn - April 30, 2018

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