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    Collaborative Performance with Node for Max

    by Darwin Grosse on
    Oct 27, 2020 9:15 PM


    Mark Fell and Rian Treanor talk about their work in collaborative performance processes - and their use in various working environments - in this three-way ...

    Book Review: Between the Tracks: Musicians on Selected Electronic Music

    by Gregory Taylor on
    Oct 27, 2020 8:40 PM


    Miller Puckette and Kerry Hagan’s edited volume “Between the Tracks” is an interesting and useful way to imagine a very different kind of book than the usual listing of canonical electronic music works.

    An Interview with jr: Smartphones and Beyond

    by dan derks on
    Oct 13, 2020 6:30 PM


    There's magic in using a tool that someone else made to address a very specific artistic need, that grows exponentially the closer you get to the artist. Looking closer, you can appreciate both the approach and personality of the idea's manifestation as a usable tool. I ended up getting to know jr -- the brilliant, approachable, and endlessly motivated creator of a suite of devices called smartphones, which bring modular synth-style "patch programming" to Live.

    Secret Max Tricks: An Homage to the Did You Know? Series

    by Tom Hall, Gregory Taylor on
    Sep 15, 2020 7:45 PM


    The Did You Know? video series is and remains one of the most brilliant collections in existence of what some folks call “secret Max tricks”.

    Visiones Sonoras 16 Preview

    by Darwin Grosse on
    Sep 1, 2020 5:20 PM


    A preview of an upcoming virtual festival that provides an exciting opportunity to engage with a vital and energized audience, and to experience a remarkable wealth of visual and sonic ...

    Book Review: Pink Noises - Women On Electronic Music and Sound

    by Gregory Taylor on
    Aug 18, 2020 9:40 PM


    After creating the website Pinknoise.com -- devoted to promoting the work of women in electronic music via interviews, information, and resources -- Tara Rodgers created another agent of change, the book Pink Noises.

    How I Spent My Summer Staycation: Frequency Domain Processing in Max/MSP

    by Gregory Taylor on
    Aug 4, 2020 9:25 PM


    Summer often offers a little downtime to step back, acquire a little new wisdom, and spend some time learning a few new tricks to take with you as the seasons start to change. We're going to spend a little time looking at an area of audio processing in Max many beginning users find as interesting as it can be daunting: frequency domain ...

    Package Arrival: The jk.lpx Abstractions for Max/MSP

    by Gregory Taylor on
    Aug 4, 2020 5:30 PM


    We’re pleased to announce the release of Jeff Kaiser's jk.lpx package of Max abstractions made with for interacting with Novation's Launchpad X controller within the Max ...

    An Interview with Kamau Patton

    by Christopher Reid Martin on
    Jul 21, 2020 8:30 PM


    Kamau Patton’s interdisciplinary work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites.

    An Interview with George Lewis and Damon Holzborn, Part 2

    by Gregory Taylor on
    Jul 21, 2020 5:20 PM


    The second half of an amiable and free-ranging interview with George Lewis, Damon Holzborn and special guest Joel Ryan delves into Voyager’s origins.