The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials

The acoustic principles are the same as wind instruments (and pipe organs). But there’s something eerily beautiful about wind organs – and they’re easy enough to make. bassling from Australia sends in this how-to from Australia, to get you started. There, of course, it’s fall, meaning this could be viewed in the “spooky Halloween” territory […]

Mammoth Beat Organ is a giant crazy mechanical music machine

What if music were made mechanically, with giant wheels and bellows and valves? The Mammoth Beat Organ makes that happen, using parts from toilets, a hearse, and a treadmill.

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2018

Watch Myriam Bleau’s beautiful work with glass and discs

The beautiful thing about performance life in the post-digital age is that it opens up what musical practice itself can be. It means an AV artist might draw as much on the tradition of painting or sculpture as on music. It might blur the boundaries in such a way that it’s hard to say which […]

Peter Kirn - November 7, 2016

Making a light sculpture a musical instrument, played with Animoog on iPad

Peter Kirn - August 15, 2015

A Building-Sized Net as Canvas, Overlaid with Light Paintings from Mobile Phones

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2014

Submerged Turntables, Art Phonographs Underwater, and Life After Records

- February 17, 2014

City of Light: A Sparkly, Geometric Wonderland at Barneys, by Joanie Lemercier, All-Star Team

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2014

A Tangled Sculpture of Lightbulbs, Stage to Elaborate Synchronized AV Performance

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2013

From Song to 3D Model to Augmented App: Visualizing Oneohtrix Point Never

Peter Kirn - December 12, 2013

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