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Dan shares how he balances programming, performance, and composition.
If you follow on the Max Gen forum, you might be forgiven sometimes for thinking that the only people using gen~ are command-line-...
Contrary to what you may have heard, the 2013 NAMM show wasn’t entirely about the rise of beautifully dirtied analog in the form...
Explore many ways to try physical modeling synthesis in Max.
I’ve spent the last week or so with Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers’ new iPad app Scape, and I have to say that I’m imp...
While I generally leave the business of standing alone on stage and fingersquiggling on a smartphone touchscreen to others as a pe...
Get immersed in Jitter Physics with two weeks of daily patches.
jit.gen can handle matrices of any type, dimension, and planecount.
Get helpful and fun examples of Gen, the new Max add-on.
The jit.pix-based patches we created in our last tutorial do cool things and use patching techniques that will probably be accessi...
A two-part introduction to Gen objects in Jitter
Sequence of little patches for some audio fun.
Adding pattr Presets To Your Live Session
Here's how you use the Vizzie Kit.
In the last several tutorials I’ve written, I’ve been talking about a subject that interests me a great deal – how to add va...
A simple truth emerges from the practice of writing Max patches like the Max for Live device we’ve been working on: The traj...
Since a lot of people are interested in what the process of porting a Max patch for use in Max for Live looks like, I thought I’...
A while back, I wrote a series of four tutorials based around the idea of how you could generate and organize variety in Max patch...
An amazing artist with an amazing range of work, read the interview of Noriko Matsumoto by Greg Taylor.
I'd like to share some really simple things that have worked for me that I hope you'll find useful, or that may provide a startin...
Now that I've got a nice generative patch and a way to hear it, I thought it'd be nice to make a few improvements and extensions t...
In this interview, Hans Tammen describes his journey into 'Endangered Guitar'...
Last time out, we created the LFOur, a generative patch composed of a quartet of synchronized LFOs whose output we can use to make...
I'm personally a lot more interested in the ability to synchronize processes in Max using time values that resemble musical note v...
In the previous installments, I've tried to give you a quick hands-on feel for how radiaL operates, paying particular attention to...
We held another Max/MSP/Jitter workshop from the 27th to the 30th of March in the Dutch city of Delft (yes, as in "that color blue...
In our last installment, I tried to present some really simple and (I hope) explanatory samples of some of the easiest ways to gen...
I've been asked to write a couple of articles that discuss how I learned radiaL, and how I approach using it in a live performance...
The great news is that Fällt is back with a nicely redesigned website. The whole site is well worth a visit and a listen, but you...
In this interview, Tim Place speaks about his work as a developer and artist, charting the numerous development projects which poo...
This last week saw several Cycling '74 folks leaving behind their solitary monastic cells and journeying to the great city of N'aw...
Since we've changed the way that plug-ins are built, I realized that perhaps it'd be a good idea to find my humble little article ...
On my last night in San Francisco, I decided to check out the newly refurbished iMax theatre in the Metreon down the street from C...
My colleagues Andrew and Meg and I headed over to the new Recombinant Media Labs facility last week for a fun-filled week of Max w...
The nature of the booth traffic is visible not only in a relative dearth of exciting action demo photos on my part (I am giving th...
We’re behind the Apple booth. This is a good thing in that we are beside and right in the demo audio line of fire of the Sony bo...
Greetings from the Los Angeles equivalent of a serious cold snap (which equates to an exceptionally nice respite from a Midwestern...
David Wessel is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley where he directs the Center for New Music and Audio T...
San Francisco resident Carl Stone has composed electro-acoustic and computer music exclusively since 1972. He has been commissione...
jhno, a.k.a. John Eichenseer, is the culprit responsible for many of the plug-ins in the Pluggo collection. A musician and program...
Bob Ostertag is a music school dropout who has since performed all over the world and has collaborated with the likes of John Zorn...
Luke DuBois is a teacher at Columbia University in New York City, and a member of the famous Freight Elevator Quartet, whose "Fix ...
In this tutorial, we'll add some interesting new bells and whistles to VST hosting and take a look at how you can begin to visuall...
In this tutorial, we'll look at a new message to the vst object that lets us load plug-ins without interrupting our audio, and tak...
One quick way to start having fun with Max is to use the vst~ object to host audio plug-ins or VST instruments; you can load plug-...
How do I turn that text stuff into a patch?
When I started this series of short "advice" pieces to Max/MSP/Jitter beginners, I also decided to ask a number of my friends and ...
You, the beginner, are living in a golden age. There are three things out there in the world that didn't exist when I was a b...
We're living in a world where you enjoy a great number of possible tools you can use to realize your ideas; the "fit" between you ...
A lot of what I thought was secret knowledge wasn't--it was only a secret if you thought that nothing of any value could possibly ...
Welcome to the beginner's corner. I will be your designated beginner for the duration of this journey. At the conclusion of your j...
I have found out that the Bush Administration called off the hunt for weapons of mass destruction? It was buried on page 10, a cou...
In the course of a lengthy and wide-ranging discussion with an old friend, we wound up talking about a particular form of anxiety....
I wasn't planning on googling drug-smuggling secrets...
Here is a local favorite--a curried Zucchini soup with coconut that we found in Molly O'Neill's fantastic year-round cookbook "A W...
An amazing part of my breakfast reading was provided by a fascinating article in the New York Times Science section consisting of ...
This is the Arts and Crafts column
The radiophonic portion of my life has an annual ritual associated with it that might surprise no one; a top ten. It's that time a...
Here is a very brief outline on the Ukraine and its current situation. If you're only starting to notice all those news items, thi...
Sometimes, you're just not in the mood for hard-hitting or even chatty bloggery. In these times, perhaps recursive zoomable artwor...
I'm reading at the moment, since there's not a lot of listening I can do. An ear infection I thought I'd whipped earlier return...
I think I've recovered enough from the ICMC (and the subsequent bout with an ear infection, replacing a wrecked car, and a few of ...
Well, I'm finally back home after having survived two major-league spanking machines--the annual AES convention, and the annual In...
I know you all probably read slashdot religiously. I should, probably. However, I happened to cruise by the mention of an intervie...
Wow. That last thing was *way* too serious....
it's with some surprise that I find myself reading the third novel in Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" The System of the World, a...
I've been thinking about the Xu Bing exhibition on and off--more specifically, I've been thinking not about the large installation...
I spent a pleasant afternoon at the museum, checking out a new installation by the Chinese artist Xu Bing.
So I thought I'd mention what's been the office ambience during this hiatus. As a critic, I'm never certain about how to listen to...
So, you think that the web is just a bunch of ranting and sixties lampshades over, and over again? Well, cheer up--some kind soul ...
Naomi Klein's stock has taken a jump on my personal index today...
The news that Hostess' parent company has filed for Chapter 11 protection is disturbing...
My first introduction to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wasn't those lovely books by Douglas Adams (who I miss very much)--i...
In a similar vein, here is a fascinating article on recent developments surrounding the interpretation of Shari'a, the Islamic leg...
This excerpt from Richard Dawkins' new book The Ancestor's Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution apparently engages with an...
I just wanted something like the joystick. Since, as Martin Luther points out, "It is easier to tear down than to build," I decide...
While I enjoy the thrill of political bloggery as much as the next person, and check in with Joshua Micah Marshall and the vain, y...
you can send any Max mxj object the viewsource message (Even if you don't have the source, the viewsource message will decompile i...
While I'm generally interested in generative systems, I've been toying with and thinking about flocking algorithms for the past ye...
In the midst of all the shoe collections and other diverting ephemera that is the web, one occasionally finds something amazing. H...
Someone called me during my radio program last night and wanted to know about artists who, like Moby, had appropriated traditional...
I was commiserating with my friend and colleague R. on the phone this week about the difficulty of laying intelligeable voice over...
We think of demilitarized zones (no, not the computer kind, the real ones like Cypriot Green Zones, the Korean DMZ and the Romulan...
I have heard it said several times and in several places that followers of Islam prefer to be referred to as "Muslim" rather than ...
I've been thinking about designers who make noise today.
I'm not sure quite what prompted this, and the graphics have had to depart from standard flowcharting style, but here is an intere...
One of the blessings of love is what others bring into our life. Or rather, what others may leave lying on the coffee table for us...
"Nothing triggers latent genius like Flash" (Wally)
You been polled yet?
One might be forgiven for assuming that I was totally uninterested in a single moment of more television after the exciting specta...
For all the cheerful chatter about objects that fill the world and the pleasures (great and small) that fill our lives, the facts ...
Please ignore my previous mutterings about why I'd want to horse around with my microwave or the robovacuum--I have proof that Blu...
It's probably normal to be concerned that one is spending time and effort in the presence of important events and providing nothin...
There's a readerly equivalent to hearing that absolutely godlike bit of a pop song: the well-turned phrase that says something wit...
Every citizen who hates America is supposed to be watching the current Republican Potemkin village of a convention, whereby we are...
Beyond the embarrassing confession that I don't own a Playstation or Gamecube or even an Atari, there's the issue of me and splatt...
how the wax cylinder recording came drifting back into my life...
here is an interesting collection of how something like this looks to someone who's walking quiety around during the setup and tak...
I've just finished a "birthday book" that might interest you--especially after I tell you what I think it's maybe not about.
I've spent a little time exploring the new version of the Moog Modular V that I mentioned recently--more specifically, working on ...
One of the reasons that virtual synthesis is attractive is that the arrival of the auction/speculator's market such as eBay has ef...
I know I am supposed to be writing stuff that derives from my own unparalleled insight and wide experience...
Attn: sea world fans: do NOT read this.
I know I should have a bad case of Olympic Fever...
I wanted to visit the Philadelpha Museum of Art in order to fulfill a long-standing wish-visit their Marcel Duchamp collection and...
Summer Comfort Food
I spend part of my life doing a radio program of electronic, experimental, electroacoustic, and various other types of music on Ma...
...my questions to you come down to this: How might these serve as a place to start describing aural order or fittingness or (coug...
Some of my Cycling '74 colleagues have suggested that I blog, or at least post the occasional thing here that I shamelessly foist ...
During a somewhat impromptu goodwill tour of the American east, J. and I stopped off to see my brother Mark, who's currently doing...
