What’s on Your Holiday Wish List – Beyond the Usual Suspects? (Open Thread)

Disco Christmas! Photo (CC-BY) paparutzi. Yes, it’s that gift-y time of year again, which naturally means among lovers of music technology, thoughts turn to gear wishes and dreams of new hardware. We’ve asked in the past what readers want in their stockings and presents – and, just as interestingly, what they’d give to others. And […]

Reader Mail: Another Demo of the Analog Drum Machine, Tempest

Can’t get enough of the upcoming drum machine, Tempest, by Roger Linn and Dave Smith? Reader Josh Decker sends in this video by Josh’s friend Rob Baker, aka Redivider, tearing up the machine as a performance instrument. Also, follow the comment thread on our previous post for some follow-up from Dave Smith Instruments to reader […]

Peter Kirn - September 7, 2011

What Visual Software Readers Use: Some Clear Favorites, Plenty of Diversity, in Census Results

Two clear frontrunner apps, among a number of superb, popular choices, are pictured here. At top, Resolume Avenue in action, in a photo (CC-BY-SA) Colombia-based artist Otto Nassar. At bottom, Deborah Johnson looks on as Modul8 glows onscreen, in a photo by Jaymis Loveday for CDM. (See that interview on her work with Sufjan Stevens […]

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2011

Teenage Engineering OP-1: Hands-on Video, Thoughts from One Beta User

- June 14, 2011

Fill 2011 with 2010’s Best Music, as Chosen by Readers; 106 Listener Favorite Choices

- January 20, 2011

Looking for the Overlooked: What Was Your Favorite Music of 2010?

- December 28, 2010

Get Counted: CDM Platform Census 2010

- August 2, 2010

Can Mobile Projection Get You in Trouble? How Do You Plan?

Peter Kirn - November 11, 2009

Ask the Readers: Best Visualist Cities

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2009

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