My first day off in forever and what do I do? Work. Yup. Wrote an article this morning, and am about to clean the house. Meanwhile, I’m thinking about things to knit. This sweater, or the stuff in my Ravelry queue… something, anything ...
Lauren by J2theD2theV
Here is one of the gals, Lauren, working in the shop. We are a busy crew lately. The debut of Mutopia is how many days away? Actually don’t tell us we are hard at work and any distraction like dates and times will j...
Beautiful organic spooky robotic art. THIS is what we’re talking about!
Last month, I was lucky enough to head to a gathering of music and visual artists at the studio of artist Duncan Laurie in Jamestown, Rhode Island, accompanied by performances in Providence and Boston. Among the cast: Richard Devine, Josh Kay (Pho...
Ableton Live controllers are suddenly everywhere, in commercial products and DIY creations. But an in-progress prototype being designed by Serbia-based creator Sasa Djuric, found on the CDM Flickr pool, goes the extra distance to integrate more ef...
Sure that dance sequence with actress Jennifer Beals at the end of Flashdance is awesome, but somehow it seems even more inspiring when a Bob Fett toy shows off the same dance moves. Too bad his jetpack gets in the way of his dance scholarship! Ch...
Sleestack Velvet Painting by Velezquez of Tijuanafrom Velvetpaintings.com
The middle child of audio technology, neither as hip as vinyl or as modern as the MP3, the cassette lives on in a massive online shrine called the C-90 Project. Odds are, if you’ve ever seen a blank cassette, it’s stored in here or soon will be. W...
July 26, 2008
1pm
Steven Gentner (http://www.roborealm.com/) - will be speaking about a robot project built using RoboRealm, a powerful free computer vision based application for use in machine vision, image analysis, and image processing systems....
Building and Using a Reaktor Grain Delay in Kore 2 from Create Digital Media on Vimeo.
Let’s cut straight to the reason we use this stuff: we want crazy-sounding delays we can play with. Reaktor guru Peter Dines shows just how you’d build such a t...
Our week of concealment concludes this Saturday with two events curated by Hanna Rose Shell, Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Anderson.
Saturday July 5th from 2-5pm we are having a Ghillie Suit building workshop. Ghillie suits are a type of camouflage clo...
Something very funny has happened in the world of music controllers. It started with the rising popularity of Ableton Live, along with the likes of Reaktor and Max/MSP, as musicians started creating more dynamic, rich live performances with comput...
We’ve been eagerly awaiting the LinnDrum II since it was called the BoomChik. We called the non-functional prototype one of the best products of this January’s NAMM – reasoning being that, based on what we heard from showgoers, a silent LinnDrum s...
Darth Vader Girlfriend"Come on Vader, pull yourself together! What?!"
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The Monome is small and elegant, but there’s something to be said for traditional instrumental controllers like a keyboard. So why not combine them? David Phipps of the electronic jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9 did just that, and sends CDM th...