Gianpaolo and Sara from sounDesign ran a panel/workshop last weekend at the Enterferenze New Art Festival, and asked some of us around the world to contribute. The topic was “Design o’ the times” based on the concept of time design.
I have been wanting to create a time-lapse phonography piece for some time now, so I [...]

Sound designers, web designers, programmers, writers, googlers, and youtubers sit for hours on end by a computer. As a result, most of us suffer from bad posture!
After getting really fed up with my bad posture, I thought I would write some software to remind me to sit up straight. My application Posture Man [...]

One of my favorite blogs on sound design has just turned one! Happy birthday Designing Sound. Thank you Miguel Isaza and Jake Riehle for all your hard work.  I hope there will be many more to come!
As a little gift, here’s virtual birthday cake I built in Max/MSP, it’s chocolate. All you have to do [...]

When I started using SoundHack, I saw one could add an .aiff header to a non-sound file thus turning any piece of digital information into a sound file. So I tried once, got very excited and proceeded to quickly forgetting about it. In the Cycling ‘74 forum someone posted a question about just that and [...]

A set of very exciting projects has come my way. I’m in South Africa for a few months recording and designing sound effects for three feature films. I’ve temporarily left New York (hopefully I will find my way back there soon) and its harsh winter for South Africa and its beautiful summer.
bye bye boom boom

Before boarding [...]

Here’s an interesting project that Gabriel G aka AlphaCore is doing. He is coding live using the Ruby programming language to create MIDI events, which are then played through Tweet A Sound.

If you are interested in this kind of stuff, Gabriel has shared his work on the live Ruby music system:
The 3 required files [...]

I got my new computer, and I’m up and running again! I’m so happy. It’s still going to be a little while until I can catch up with everything. So in the meantime, I will share an old project from last March.
In the beginning of the year, I really got into Andy Farnell’s book on [...]

I am so excited! I can hardly contain myself. As I’m typing this, I’m downloading the Max for Live public beta.
You can download it here. Hurray!

Since Arduino 17, many people have been having issues with getting Arduino and Max/MSP communicating. Hans-Christopher Steiner posted a comment in the tutorial How to Set up Arduino and Max/MSP saying that he has released an update, which should sort some bugs out.
Here’s what Hans-Christopher wrote:
The StandardFirmata in 0017 turned out to be kind of [...]

The irony of this social sound design quest is that I have become as unsocial as it gets. I have been spending a lot of time sitting in front of the computer by myself working on a new piece of software that is almost completed. This software is called Sound Doodle. It is somewhat along [...]