In a 1995 ICMC paper, Todd Winkler wrote: If Leon Theremin were alive today, he would be amused by the corporate giants racing to discover the “killer app” that will bring interactive electronic images and sound to the masses. He had given musicians a seventy year lead to develop concepts and content exploring motion and [...]
Read more →David Zicarelli has posted an interesting note about a new collaboration between Cycling ’74 and Ableton. Ableton Live is one of the most popular and easy to use to use live electronics software tools, and Max/MSP is one of the most powerful and flexible, so this sounds very interesting.
Read more →After being convinced by Tim, I have started using TextMate for text editing things. Right now I am mostly interested in its many nice LaTeX features, and the best so far is that it will create the necessary code when dropping and image into the text. You can’t believe how much time and effort this [...]
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Came across a great website with lots of references to the work of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 – 1904), a pioneer in early photography. I particularly like his chronophotographies.
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There are very few items that make me happy every time I use them, but my Sandisk SD memory card is one of them. I have had it for around a year, and it seems to be some of the most ingenious industrial design during the last years. It makes cables unnecessary, as I simple [...]
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