About: Peter Kirn is a composer, digital musician, visualist, and technologist. He's the creator of the online music and visual tech blogs/communities Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion. He has contributed coverage of music and visual technology to multiple issues of MAKE, and authored Real World Digital Audio, a book on music creation for Peachpit Press. His work has been featured this year at venues like the Photographic Gallery NYC, the Museum of Modern Art's Family Day, the Boston Cyberarts Festival, and CUNY's Science and Arts series. He's currently teaching computer music at Brooklyn College.
Sensor Control of Music and Visuals
Sock monkeys as DJ tools? Wii controllers as musical instruments? Animations generated wirelessly through distance sensors? Learn to produce sound and visuals with readily available sensor-to-computer kits.
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Blog Posts
Journal: The Mind Meld Audiovisual Retreat in New England
--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,...
A Dreamy Prototype for Ableton Live Control Finally Mimics UI
--Ableton Live controllers are suddenly everywhere, in commercial products and DIY creations. But an in-progress prototype being designed by Serbia-b...
Project C-90: Insanely Huge Cassette Tape Collection Site Expands
--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 ...
kore@noisepages: Free DIY Grain Delay Reaktor Tutorial, plus Making Sense of Kore
--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 ...
MachineCollective: Open, DIY Modular Controller Platform Coming Soon
--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...
Dave Smith/Linn LinnDrum II Pre-order List Now; Specs
--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 th...
Keyboard + Monome = One Crazy DIY Instrument Hybrid by STS9’s David Phipps, Plus New Album/Tour
--The Monome is small and elegant, but there’s something to be said for traditional instrumental controllers like a keyboard. So why not combin...
Monitor Your Audio Drives for Trouble via SMART, Free (Windows/Mac/Linux)
--We live and die by hard drives for music. There’s no substitute for redundancy and backups (hey, you could be Matthew Dear and have a drive stolen ...
Handmade Music Returns: DIY Music Tech in Brooklyn 7/8, Video
--Create Digital Music Night at ETSY LABS from Etsy on Vimeo. Handmade marketplace Etsy.com, DIY "mook"/blog Make, and createdigitalmusic.co...
Exclusive: Free (Cardstock) Minimoog Model Offer Extended
--If you missed getting a free Minimoog model with the purchase of landmark ambient album Gas0095 from label Microscopics and still want it, we’...
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Peter, had a blast sunday night. Was great to meet you and talk music nerd language.
Hey, thanks Peter, we had lots of fun. I'm sorry I didn't make it to the gigs in SF over the weekend. Actually I was at Edinburgh Castle on Saturday, but I think the music was over by the time I got there. I will be at NIME along with a few other CCRMA folks, and hope to catch up then.
Anybody who uses sock monkeys in music (or in any other medium) is a friend o' mine!
