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From STEIM’s Artistic Director: Why STEIM Matters, and Thanks
From the STEIM Concert Blog, which gives some sense of who has been playing STEIM. Takuro Maizuta Lippit, aka dj sniff, writes in thanks for the international outpouring of support for the STEIM music...
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Join in on Crazy Video Projects in LA, Worldwide: Stuntman Jump, High Noon...
Machine Project is the wonderful gallery / multimedia educational center and maker of happenings in Los Angeles. They’re on a roll with Big Ideas this month, so I thought I’d pass them along — aside...
View ArticleAre Economic Concerns Likely to Impact Your Music Tech Purchases?
Politics and economics are well beyond the scope of this site and ridiculously far out of my area of expertise. But at what point does economic confidence start to impact music technology? That’s a...
View ArticleBleeping Good Fun: Videos from Handmade Music; Your Part of the World
It’s easy – and partly appropriate – to appreciate the bleeps and blips of homemade and bent circuits as noise-making insanity. But as Peter Edwards (casperelectronics) and E-Squared walked us through...
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Ask the Readers: Best Visualist Cities
Tokyo, home to the audiovisual scene and birthplace of Motion Dive, must be at least one candidate. Photo: Joi Ito. It’s time for a little geographical smackdown. Opening my inbox today, I found this...
View ArticleSonification: Thermonuclear Testing, Made into Music, 1945-1998
Visualization often wins out over sonification when it comes to making data clear. But sound has one key advantage: it can make time and scale apparent, by tapping directly into our perception of...
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What Visual Software Readers Use: Some Clear Favorites, Plenty of Diversity,...
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...
View ArticleProjection Mapping Comes to Mongolia
Look out, flat 4:3 and 16:9 rectangles. Projection mapping – the simple but potentially-expressive technique of using projected light on more complex three-dimensional surfaces – appears to be here to...
View ArticleMobile Projection Becomes Activists’ Tool in NYC Occupy Wall Street Protests
Democracy Now! has a feature on the use of mobile projection in Occupy Wall Street. Projections here are simple: factoids are blown up to big-building size, highlighting economic inequities. But the...
View ArticleJoin in on Crazy Video Projects in LA, Worldwide: Stuntman Jump, High Noon...
Machine Project is the wonderful gallery / multimedia educational center and maker of happenings in Los Angeles. They’re on a roll with Big Ideas this month, so I thought I’d pass them along — aside...
View ArticleAre Economic Concerns Likely to Impact Your Music Tech Purchases?
Politics and economics are well beyond the scope of this site and ridiculously far out of my area of expertise. But at what point does economic confidence start to impact music technology? That’s a...
View ArticleBleeping Good Fun: Videos from Handmade Music; Your Part of the World
It’s easy – and partly appropriate – to appreciate the bleeps and blips of homemade and bent circuits as noise-making insanity. But as Peter Edwards (casperelectronics) and E-Squared walked us through...
View ArticleAsk the Readers: Best Visualist Cities
Tokyo, home to the audiovisual scene and birthplace of Motion Dive, must be at least one candidate. Photo: Joi Ito. It’s time for a little geographical smackdown. Opening my inbox today, I found this...
View ArticleSonification: Thermonuclear Testing, Made into Music, 1945-1998
Visualization often wins out over sonification when it comes to making data clear. But sound has one key advantage: it can make time and scale apparent, by tapping directly into our perception of...
View ArticleWhat Visual Software Readers Use: Some Clear Favorites, Plenty of Diversity,...
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...
View ArticleProjection Mapping Comes to Mongolia
Look out, flat 4:3 and 16:9 rectangles. Projection mapping – the simple but potentially-expressive technique of using projected light on more complex three-dimensional surfaces – appears to be here to...
View ArticleMobile Projection Becomes Activists’ Tool in NYC Occupy Wall Street Protests
Democracy Now! has a feature on the use of mobile projection in Occupy Wall Street. Projections here are simple: factoids are blown up to big-building size, highlighting economic inequities. But the...
View ArticleListen to ambient sound from around the world, recorded with a 4’33” app
To anyone who says there are too many music makers in the world, maybe you aren't aware of how much sound is in the world. Crowd-sourced iPhone recordings and the ghost of John Cage are here to set you...
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