why is everyone obsessed with audio hardware now?
How Big Tech Co-opted DIY – and how to Fight Back | The Quietus
As technology has developed in the last twenty years, it has brought with it a sense of enablement. Over time, access to nearly everything has become simpler, and as such, the message from Silicon Valley and its offshoots was that you can do it all. I have worked in the music industry since the late […]
Our Longing for Inconvenience
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?
10 Cent Microcontroller Makes Music
Compared to the old 8-bit Arduinos, it’s incredible how cheap modern microcontrollers like the ESP32 have become. But there are even cheaper options out there if you don’t need that kin…
A dispatch from the dawn of the electronic music age | Aeon Videos
These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it
Michael Tsai - Blog - Alan Kay on the iPhone
If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar. That’s the simple long and the short of it.
Audiovisual Identity Database - The Motion Graphics Museum
Explore Audiovisual Branding Explore Informational Bumpers Explore Technical Ephemera
Bad Gear - I tried my best to HATE IT
Tangara - ESP32-powered music player with a battery, an enclosure, a color screen, and a touchwheel
The Whole Industry Is Doing This. Sony's Just Doing It Loudest. · Ewan’s Blog
The Whole Industry Is Doing This. Sony's Just Doing It Loudest. — Ewan’s Blog
Jeff Mills Drifts Into the Cosmos
AI is the latest of a long succession of tools trying to make things easier for us, and it’s always been there, and it’s always affected the music. Maybe we didn’t fear as much, but musicians just have to be more creative and to be more elusive.
Should we design for iffy internet? | Hacker News
All of a sudden one day, I was cut off from all my music, by the creators of the iPod!
The Computer for the 21st Century
Specialized elements of hardware and software, connected by wires, radio waves and infrared, will be so ubiquitous that no one will notice their presence
Art of Noise
A multi-sensory exploration of how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years.
People don't buy who they are. They buy who they want to become.
Why the most successful brands build against a muse, not a demographic
Instrumental interaction: an interaction model for designing post-WIMP user interfaces
Although the power of personal computers has increased 1000-fold over the past 20 years, user interfaces remain essentially the same. Innovations in HCI research, particularly novel interaction techniques, are rarely incorporated into products. In this ...
Physicality: the new age of UI
There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
