Mark Henry Phillips has spent twenty years making music for a living. Light Box is his ten-part investigation into what AI is doing to the industry from the inside.
LumaDeck — Live Visual Instrument for DJs
The live visual instrument for DJs and performers. Play the light.
The Lightbulb Computer: Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing
The Lightbulb Computer: Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing
Impulse Tracker by Ovi Demetrian Jr
On a quiet night in the year 1996, 20-year old Alan is in his small apartment, about to make an important life decision. His thoughts are torn between the electronic music he makes with his computer and starting a career path with a computer software company.
Sendspin: Music in every room. Art on every screen. Lights on the beat.
The open standard for synchronized music, art, controls, and lights across your home. From the Open Home Foundation.
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook : Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution
A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most comprehensive guide to set lighting available. It provides a unique combination of practical detail with a big-picture understanding of lighting, technology, safety, and professionalism, essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting. The fifth edition delves into every aspect of lighting and features vastly expanded sections on controlling LED lights, color science, lighting control systems, wireless systems, Ethernet-based control systems, battery power, and modern set protocol for productions small and large. With a generous number of original images, the book illustrates the use of soft light, the effect of lighting angles, and how the gaffer and DP build an effective lighting plan around the blocking of the actors. This encyclopedic volume of technical knowhow is tempered with years of practical experience and a much-needed sense of humor.This is the ideal text for professional lighting technicians across film and television including lighting directors, gaffers, DOPs, and rigging crews, as well as film and television production students studying lighting, camera techniques, film production, and cinematography.It includes a revamped companion website with supplementary resources, forms, checklists, and images.
Science that Compounds: The Need for A New Substrate for Research in the Age of AI
This paper is a perspective from Lightcone Research, an open-source initiative building tooling for scientific research in the age of agentic AI.
Art of Noise
A multi-sensory exploration of how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years.
Digital feeds, malnourished students — Phantom Power
Today we’re doing one of our occasional episodes where host Mack Hagood talks about a new essay he’s written for our newsletter “Feed Logic and the Failure to Thrive” Mack writes that students and professors are struggling, both academically and spiritually. He tries to diagnose the issue he felt in his classrooms this year and the role technology may play in it. For new listeners, Mack is a writer and researcher who studies sound, technology, and culture. He is the author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control, a book on noise-canceling headphones, white noise, tinnitus, and the ways people use sound to manage modern life. He is currently writing a new book for Penguin Press, and he also hosts this podcast Phantom Power, where he interviews artists, scholars, musicians, and sound designers about the invisible power of sound in everyday life. Besides all that, Mack is a university professor and that’s what his most recent essay is about. Click here to read the newsletter for free. Cited Media: Film:Mary…
On AI in Hip-Hop
Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse unpacks the visual aesthetics and murky ethics of AI-enhanced rap videos.
An Interview with Robert Frank - "If An Artist Doesn't Take Risks, Then It's Not Worth It." (2007)
An Exclusive Interview with Robert Frank, Robert Frank’s Studio, New York, July 22, 2007
[Interview] Snow J of Cheerful Music dives into the cross cultural intersection of AI and music – EARMILK
In conversation with Earmilk, Snow. J explores how AI has restructured the foundation of music culture, striking a balance between AI and human-made music as well as Cheerful Music's distinct approach to engaging AI technology in music making and marketing.
Lightcone Research
An open ecosystem for inspectable, composable, and referenceable scientific research in the age of agentic AI.
Cakewalk
Fueled by over 30 years in the relentless pursuit of innovation, we build the most intuitive, next-generation music production tools that empower all creators to push creative boundaries.
