Music Software Tech
KMRU on spaces, Nairobi, and turning off Ableton Live’s grid
It’s a film about tuning into the spaces around you, but KMRU makes an argument for being more than where you’re from. And to open up possibilities, he also does the thing I expect a lot of you know you want to do but might be afraid to do – turn off the grid now and then. Even in the software known for it.
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A festival to ponder the nature of time
Now, following a century of recording and broadcast, where does musical performance go next? That challenges not just space or culture, but reimagining the place of time itself in the performance. Berlin is a fitting place to contemplate time. Once home to Albert Einstein, it helped incubate modern general relativity. At its southwest is Mendelsohn’s […]
Peter Kirn - March 18, 2016
Music Music tech
Generative Genius: Free Max for Live Patch Lets You Schedule Scenes at Any Clock Time
Bars and beats are great. But people find applications for sound and music that go beyond traditional tools. That has already made Ableton Live a popular choice for triggering audio events and the like. But even Live tends to be biased toward conventional musical time. Sound and multimedia shop Aconica rolled their own tool to […]
Open Design Thread: Progress Bars, What is the Fundamental Nature of Time?
Peter Kirn - January 30, 2009
Archive Motion Music tech
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