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Online Toy: D U B S E L E C T O R
Found via Dublog: D U B S E L E C T O R offers 10 flash interfaces so you can remix/perform dub tracks. Go play…
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Retro Analog Technologies in Visual Culture
I write a lot about the proliferation of digital production and its effects on concepts of creativity and aesthetic value in established music subcultures – and I have often thought that the resurgence in analog synthesis/retro music technology is connected somehow to the availability of digital production tools to the “masses”. It’s not a phenomenon…
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Remix your TV
VJamm is far more than a toy. It’s a lean mean VJ machine, a software instrument which allows you to play 16 audiovisual samples and collate them together to make your own video remixes – in essence triggering and sequencing video loops in a way analogous to audio sequencing. The software has proved popular in…
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Feed Your Gear Lust
Following a link from DJ Spooky to his remix of Saul Williams’ “Not in My Name”, I came across a nice little set of desktop images and screensavers for electronic music types at the Ninjatune downloads page, including my new favourite photo in the whole world, at left.
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loopaaa online drum sequencer
Check out this toy.
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Project Overhead Projector contd.
Of course, the OHP is an essential part of any psychedelic lightshow’s arsenal, particularly if it is 1968 and you are tripping to the moon. And the projector hasn’t been forgotten by the Retro Chic Army: just came across a little article about a couple of dudes who run something called the State Prison Light…
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NewWavePunkPowerPointArt – David Byrne Loves PowerPoint
Meanwhile, David Byrne has been Learning to Love PowerPoint, subvertively using the tools to seriously renovate the master’s house, at least art-wise: “Although I began by making fun of the medium, I soon realized I could actually create things that were beautiful. I could bend the program to my own whim and use it as…
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Project Overhead Projector (PowerPoint is Evil)
I knew it, you knew it, university students and teachers have known it for quite some time, and now the whole world knows it: PowerPoint Is Evil: Wired says so! Although the article draws some nice parallels between PowerPoint-ism and the over-beauracratized Stalinist state (see the pic) I am disappointed to find that in the…