Type: Maker Workbench
Tags: midi sensors how-to make physical+computing visuals vj music
Sock monkeys as DJ tools? Wii controllers as musical instruments? Animations generated wirelessly through distance sensors? Learn to produce sound and visuals with readily available sensor-to-computer kits.
Peter Kirn is a composer, digital musician, visualist, and technologist. He's the creator of the online music and visual tech blogs/communities Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion. He has contributed coverage of music and visual technology to multiple issues of MAKE, and authored Real World Digital Audio, a book on music creation for Peachpit Press. His work has been featured this year at venues like the Photographic Gallery NYC, the Museum of Modern Art's Family Day, the Boston Cyberarts Festival, and CUNY's Science and Arts series. He's currently teaching computer music at Brooklyn College.