Atari, at 50, leaves a legacy of electronic imagination in visuals and sound

It’s official: video games, or certainly their leading icon Atari, have crossed the half-century landmark. But maybe that’s why the aesthetics of some of Atari’s earliest greats now sound newly fresh – not only retro, but as something elemental no deep in music, art, and culture.

2manybuttons is a Perfect Parody of Live Laptop Controllerism

You’ve seen plenty of EDM and DJ parodies, snarky Facebook images poking fun at people who can’t use turntables, what have you. But let me just level with you: this video could basically be a parody of CDM … of me. I… Well, I can’t really say much more. Just watch. (Another way you can […]

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2015

With MIDI, A Simple iOS Piano Roll App Gets More Useful: Auxy Update

From a design standpoint, it was beautiful. Auxy already demonstrated that a stripped-down app could provide an elegant way to simply produce musical patterns. Using a clean, piano roll-style graphical interface, it was finally a demonstration that you could make a music app for editing notes that felt native to a touch environment. There was […]

Peter Kirn - February 3, 2015

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