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Lilli Wessling Hart


After some independent website design work, I joined David Z. and Cycling '74 in 1998. My roles have changed over the years and I am currently Director of Communications.

http://cycling74.com

Written Articles

Our Square Footage at Amazon

A few months ago we made the decision to trim down our office size and send some physical merchandise like shirts, audio libraries...

Luminth generative music system on Kickstarter

Max user Kevin Holland and his partner just launched a new music-making project called Luminth that you should check out.

Lucid Possession Tickets on Sale

Next week, a special event will be happening in Brooklyn at Roulette. Toni Dove’s “Lucid Possession” premieres A...

Jeremy Bailey Wants to Celebrate You

Max-enthusiast and Expo ’74 presenter, Jeremy Bailey, has a message for people who contribute to Kickstarter campaigns (for ...

Let’s Meet in the UK

Code Control Festival is Europe’s biggest Max meetup. Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre in Leicester will be hosting its 3rd in...

Walking through fire at NAMM

One of my favorite places at NAMM is the arena. In the arena, you will find all kinds of lasers, smoke machines, light-up micropho...

Next up in the “Programming Guide for Artists” series

Francisco Colasanto — an Expo ’74 exhibitor and skilled Max user, teacher, and technical coordinator at CMMAS — ...

Temporarily Closed for Meetings

Thanks in advance for your patience!

Max helps light up the Bay Bridge

It’s not always easy to describe what Max does or how it works to your relatives, but now I can say “look at the Bay B...

Particles installation exciting from every angle.

Daito, Motoi, and Friends show you the results of their beautiful and fluid creation, as well as some of the structure behind it. ...

Cycling ’74 Releases Max Version 6 and the Gen Add-on

Powerful Toolset for Media Applications San Francisco, CA • October 26, 2011 — Cycling ’74 today released Version 6.0 of...

An Evening at Columbia

As a perfect end to the first day Expo ’74 2011, our friends at the Computer Music Center at Columbia University are hosting...

Expo ’74 2011 Event Schedule

Dates and times for Expo '74 events.

Convolution and Impulse Response

Alex Harker talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Introduction to note~

Thomas Resch talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Techniques for Extending Acoustic Instruments

Michael Sperone talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Live Spectral Processing in Max

Jean-François Charles talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Bach: Automated Composer’s Helper

Andrea Agostini talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Ins and Outs with Max and Arduino

Scott Fitzgerald talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Mobile Phones and Max

Nathan Bowen talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Making A Slick Max Standalone

Dan Nigrin talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Programming with Clojure in Max

Nick Rothwell talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Videogame Music Prototyping

Ben Houge talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

Max 6 and Gen Academic Pricing

Below you will find some academic pricing options for Max 6 (to be released 4th quarter 2011) and the new add-on to Max 6 called G...

Max 6 and Gen Retail Pricing

Below you will find some retail pricing options for Max 6 (to be released 4th quarter 2011) and the new add-on to Max 6 called Gen...

Announcing Max 6

I want to share some news about the next major Max upgrade, version 6, arriving this fall. For us, Max 6 is about four things: acc...

Announcing Max 6 and New Pricing

Powerful and Flexible Tools for Media

Max at NYEAF

Visit Governors Island for the New York Electronic Art Festival.

Announcing Expo ’74 2011

Join us in Brooklyn for our next Max user conference!

Using Microsoft Kinect with Max

The Max community has been bitten by the Kinect bug.

Max 5.1.7 Now Available

Version 5.1.7 includes Max, MSP, Jitter, Vizzie and support for Max for Live.

Cycling ’74 Releases Vizzie

Video Modules Free to Owners of Jitter San Francisco, CA • November 19, 2010 — Cycling ’74 today released Vizzie, a set of m...

Summer Max Workshop for High-School Students

For the first time, we are offering a three-day Max workshop only for high school students ages 15-18. It will take place at the C...

Max Workshop in Los Angeles

Our next Max workshop will be held in Los Angeles, CA, and is strictly for beginners. This workshop is specifically for new users ...

Sound On Sound Reviews Max for Live

In this review, Nick Rothwell explains Max for Live in terms of what the addition of Max offers to Live users. He also shares his ...

Software Release: Max 5.1.3

Max 5.1.3 was released on 9 February 2010. - Read the release notes - Download Max 5.1.3

EM Reviews Max for Live

In this article, Jim Aikin reviews the new add-on product to Live, developed by Ableton and Cycling ’74, with a detailed acc...

Cycling ’74 at the 2010 NAMM Show

Cycling ’74 and 85,000 of its closest friends will spend the weekend at the NAMM Show in Anaheim. We are sharing booth 6314 ...

Pluggo Technology Moves to Max for Live

Effective immediately, Cycling ’74 will discontinue sales of prebuilt Max-based audio plug-in packages. This includes Pluggo, Mo...

Jitter on the Mainstage at Coachella

On the afternoon of April 3rd, I received an email from M.I.A.'s manager asking if I'd be interested in working with them on a one...

A Look Back at Expo ’74

Last week, we put on our first conference. Now that Expo '74 is history, I've been asked to share my thoughts about the experience...

My Perspective on Integrating Max and Live

David Zicarelli gives some insight on the decision to integrate Max within Live...

Announcing Max for Live

Cycling '74 and Ableton today announced Max for Live, the integration of Cycling '74's Max/MSP environment into Ableton Live. Avai...

Announcing Expo ’74

Cycling '74 today announced that its first user conference, Expo '74, will be held in San Francisco next April. The conference wil...

CNMAT Summer School 2008

Recently, CNMAT at UC Berkeley held their annual MaxMSP/Jitter summer school classes at their beautiful Arch St. facility just off...

Email to Customers (April 24, 2008)

Hello from Cycling '74 headquarters. We have some big news. Max 5 is now available for download. We're very excited about this maj...

Cycling ’74 Releases Max/MSP Version 5

Cycling ’74 today released Version 5.0 of its Max/MSP media development tools. This version represents a new era of Max programm...

Expand Your Guitar, Vol. 1

I've teamed up with Ben Bracken for this series of simple tutorials that will get you shredding your shreds faster than you though...

Announcing Max/MSP Version 5

Cycling '74 today announced Version 5.0 of its Max/MSP media development tools. This version represents a new era of Max programmi...

Max 5: What It Is (and Isn’t)

Some of you may have heard that major changes are imminent in the Max world, and there is a lot of speculation about what those ch...

Email to Customers (June 28, 2007)

Hello from Cycling '74 headquarters. We have two quick announcements. Read more...

Email to Customers (May 21, 2007)

Hello from Cycling '74 headquarters. We have three things to tell you about. Read more...

My Wii Life…

In this article, Darwin Grosse explains how to use the Wii video-game controller to interface with Max/MSP.

Cycling ’74′s Office Relocation, Part 2

For those of you who know San Francisco, there are two things you are well aware of. One, if you ask a pair of friends walking dow...

Cycling ’74′s Office Relocation, Part 1

Growing out of and growing tired of our 379A Clementina Street location, Cycling '74 is moving its headquarters into a great new s...

Workshop in Delft

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...

Cycling ’74 Releases Cyclops for Mac Intel

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music and video software company, today released Cyclops v. 1.3 which adds Universal Binary sup...

Cycling ’74 Features Software Update For JazzMutant Lemur At AES

Cycling '74 today demonstrated the recently released version 1.5 software for JazzMutant Lemur control surface. The update is avai...

Cycling ’74 Releases Entire Line of Plug-in Products for Mac Intel

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today released Pluggo v. 3.6, Hipno v. 1.1, Mode v. 1.3 and UpMix 1.1 w...

Cycling ’74 Updates Max/MSP/Jitter for Mac Intel

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today released Max/MSP v. 4.6 and Jitter v. 1.6 which add Universal Bin...

Cycling ’74 Updates Soundflower for Mac Intel

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today released Soundflower v. 1.2 which adds Universal Binary support f...

A Video Interview with North Pitney, Installation Artist

North Pitney: Making the virtual space real.

A Video Interview with Matthew Lewis, Graphics Research Specialist

Matthew Lewis: Education through synesthetic study and play.

A Video Interview with Jamie Lidell, Musician and Performer

Jamie Lidell: Rocking the "one man human tornado".

A Video Interview with Kevin Blechdom, Musician and Performer

Kevin Blechdom: Mind expansion through Max/MSP.

A Video Interview with AGF, Musician

AGF: Falling in love with patches.

Cycling ’74 Releases UpMix

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today released UpMix, a surround processing and mixing software package...

A Video Interview with Daito Manabe, Performer

Turntablism takes on the visual dimension.

A Video Interview with Laetitia Sonami, Performer

Performance and Installation Using the Lady's Glove to build relationships.

Cycling ’74 Debuts Website Update

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today announced the launch of a revamped web presence, available at htt...

Cycling ’74 Shows Surround Processing And Up Mixing Technology

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today demonstrated UpMix, a surround processing and upmixing software p...

Cycling ’74 Previews New Software For The Lemur Multi-Touch Control Surface

NAMM • Anaheim, CA • January 19, 2006 - Cycling '74 today announced revision software 1.3 for the JazzMutant Lemur Multi-touch...

Om NAMMa Shiva (Part N where N=3)

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...

Om NAMMa Shiva (Part N where N=2)

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...

Om NAMMa Shiva (part N where N=1)

Greetings from the Los Angeles equivalent of a serious cold snap (which equates to an exceptionally nice respite from a Midwestern...

MSP Learns to Ride a Bike

The first version of MSP was released eight years ago -- December 21, 1997 to be exact. As MSP's age now represents a child old en...

MIDI and the Lemur

The JazzMutant Lemur is an incredibly versatile control surface for media applications. It allows you to create an interface match...

Cycling ’74 Announces Surround Processing And Mixing Technology

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today announced the development of UpMix, a surround processing and mix...

Cycling ’74 Releases Hipno Plug-ins

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today announced the release of Hipno 1.0, a new suite of over forty eff...

Cycling ’74 Announces Pricing and Availability for Octirama

SURROUND DYNAMIC PROCESSOR FOR TDM SYSTEMS AES • New York • October 7, 2005 - Cycling '74, a software company based in San ...

Writing Externals with Xcode 2.2

In this article we will take a step-by-step approach on how to write externals from scratch using Apple's latest developer tools. ...

A Video Interview with Matt Wright, Musical Systems Designer

"Drawing" on Ornette Coleman: synthesis control using a graphics tablet.Watch Matt's video.

A Video Interview with Ali Momeni, Composer & Researcher

Controller workshop: From do-it-yourself tablas (with sponges!) to the Lemur. Watch Ali's video.

A Video Interview with Christopher Willits, Musician

Creating the personal instrument. Watch Christopher's video.

A Video Interview with David Tinapple, Video Artist

On visual programming for visual media. Watch David's video.

A Video Interview with John deKron, Media & Video Artist

Controlling a Media Facade: The Bix Simulator and VJ software ES-X. Watch John's video.

A Video Interview with Angela Lorenz, Graphic Designer

Automated design and visuals.Watch Angela's video.

A Video Interview with Barney Haynes, Media Artist & Educator

Installation and Performance Fabricating the interfaced machine. Watch Barney's video.

The Development of Jamoma

The Jamoma Project recently released version 0.2 of its modular framework for Max, MSP, and Jitter. Despite the low version number...

Cycling ’74 Releases Major Update To Jitter

Cycling '74 today announced the release of Jitter version 1.5, a major upgrade to its video, matrix and 3D graphics objects for th...

Cycling ’74 Releases Momentary Incursions

Cycling '74, a software company based in San Francisco, today announced the release of Momentary Incursions, the fourth volume in ...

Cycling ’74 Presents Product Workshop At San Francisco Apple Store

Cycling '74 today announced a special workshop on Cycling '74 products at the San Francisco Apple Store. As part of a series Apple...

InVeSTigations (part 4)

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...

InVeSTigations (part 3)

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...

InVeSTigations (part 2)

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-...

InVeSTigations (part 1)

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-...

Cycling ’74 Announces Direct To Dealer Sales

Cycling '74, a software company based in San Francisco, today announced that on April 1st they started selling directly to dealers...

How do I turn that text stuff into a patch?

How do I turn that text stuff into a patch?

Cycling ’74 Ships Mode For Windows

Cycling '74, a software company based in San Francisco, today announced the release of Mode for Windows. This popular package of n...

The Poly Papers (part 1)

One of the more difficult things for many beginning Max/MSP users is dealing with polyphony. So I thought I'd write up a few artic...

Things I wish HAD existed (so that people could have told me about them)

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...

Things I wish people had told me, continued

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 ...

MI7 To Distribute Cycling ’74 Software In Europe

MI7, a distribution company for Media and Music Production Solutions based in Malmo, Sweden, and Cycling '74, a software company b...

Things I wish people had told me (part zero)

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

Welcome to the beginner's corner. I will be your designated beginner for the duration of this journey. At the conclusion of your j...

Cycling ’74 To Distribute Innovative Touchscreen Control Surface

Cycling '74, a San Francisco-based music software company, and the French company JazzMutant SAS today announced the signing of an...

Cycling ’74 Announces Hipno Plug-Ins

Cycling '74, a software company based in San Francisco, today announced HIPNO 1.0, a new suite of over forty effects and instrumen...

Cycling ’74 Releases Pluggo For Windows

Cycling '74, a software company based in San Francisco, today announced the release of Pluggo for Windows. This popular package of...

Cycling ’74 Announces Mode For Windows

Cycling '74, a software company based in San Francisco, today announced Mode for Windows. This popular package of native audio pro...

Cycling ’74 and Octiv Demonstrate Octirama

Cycling '74, a software company based in San Francisco and Octiv Inc., the Berkeley-based digital audio innovator, today demonstra...

Another reason why you should read the ENTIRE newspaper

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...

Something that came up….

In the course of a lengthy and wide-ranging discussion with an old friend, we wound up talking about a particular form of anxiety....

Another defense for murder down the tubes….

The news that Hostess' parent company has filed for Chapter 11 protection is disturbing...

Reasons to be radiophonically happy

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...

Current events in the Post Office queue

In a similar vein, here is a fascinating article on recent developments surrounding the interpretation of Shari'a, the Islamic leg...

Nourishing opportunities for imagination (book pointer)

This excerpt from Richard Dawkins' new book The Ancestor's Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution apparently engages with an...

Joysticks and javascript (fruit on the bottom)

I just wanted something like the joystick. Since, as Martin Luther points out, "It is easier to tear down than to build," I decide...

Political blogging and the road trip

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...

Ignorance and the sublime, mingled in a single posting

you can send any Max mxj object the viewsource message (Even if you don't have the source, the viewsource message will decompile i...

Flocking analog synthesis (more Max/Moog Modular V fun)

While I'm generally interested in generative systems, I've been toying with and thinking about flocking algorithms for the past ye...

Geek x retro x bard =

In the midst of all the shoe collections and other diverting ephemera that is the web, one occasionally finds something amazing. H...

Recording absences

Someone called me during my radio program last night and wanted to know about artists who, like Moby, had appropriated traditional...

just ducky, thanks

I was commiserating with my friend and colleague R. on the phone this week about the difficulty of laying intelligeable voice over...

_, _, burning bright/in the forests of the night

We think of demilitarized zones (no, not the computer kind, the real ones like Cypriot Green Zones, the Korean DMZ and the Romulan...

Transliterations (Oh, so *that’s* it….)

I have heard it said several times and in several places that followers of Islam prefer to be referred to as "Muslim" rather than ...

Open GL 2.0 Specification Released

The OpenGL Architecture Review Board has released the official OpenGL 2.0 specification.

Event Priority in Max (Scheduler vs. Queue)

The following article is designed to shed some light on the different priority levels of Max events...

Freaks and Geeks

we'll be covering topics such as the inner workings of MaxMSP's scheduler, event, and DSP models; programming in Javascript, Java,...

Sound and vision

I've been thinking about designers who make noise today.

Mapping your ethical data space

I'm not sure quite what prompted this, and the graphics have had to depart from standard flowcharting style, but here is an intere...

Culture spaces!

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)

"Nothing triggers latent genius like Flash" (Wally)

I should have written this first

Some of my Cycling '74 colleagues have suggested that I blog, or at least post the occasional thing here that I shamelessly foist ...

A hall of fame

During a somewhat impromptu goodwill tour of the American east, J. and I stopped off to see my brother Mark, who's currently doing...