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Newsletter #98: Spend some time in sensorland and check out a trigger that...
This week, Cycling ’74 sits down to talk with a violinist/Maxer and reveals the trigger object’s secret identities. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or subscribe now!
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Book Review: Universal Principles of Design
Several years ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of teaching a beginner’s Max workshop at the Technical University of Delft. It was an amazing week – not least because it was the first time I’d...
View ArticleAdvanced Max: FFTs, Part 3
In the third in our series on using the FFT in Max, spend 45 minutes learning how to visualize the FFT processing you’re working with, and further explore the use of various window types in ways that...
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Newsletter #99: Sharpen your design skills and learn to visualize your FFT...
This week, Cycling ’74 has a book to help you think like a designer and shows you how to visualize FFT processing. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or subscribe now!
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Artist Focus: Mariannah Amster and Frank Ragano
Today I’m sitting down with Mariannah Amster and Frank Ragano of Parallel Studios, the creators and curators of the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For fifteen years I’ve had the...
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On The Road: The Voltage Connect Conference
A few months ago, I got a note from Michael Bierylo, the chair of the Electronic Production and Design (EPD) Department at Berklee College of Music. They were planning a conference, and was wondering...
View ArticleNewsletter #100: Get a peek behind a festival curtain and a front row seat.
This week, Cycling ’74 chats with the Currents New Media festival founders and checks out the first Voltage Connect conference. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or subscribe now!
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Content You Need: The Ease Package
We want to add a little more life to your transitions. You’ve probably made a habit of using line, bline, or line~ to handle all of your smooth value changes. While this is very handy, these linear...
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Max For Live Sightings (Tag-Team Edition)
This month’s look at Max for Live devices has turned out to be an exercise in synchronicity – nosing around on sites like maxforlive.com and checking our Projects gallery for interesting MFL devices...
View ArticleNewsletter #101: Add Some Ease To Your Patching Life And Discover A Good...
This week, Cycling ’74 runs down the new Ease package features and checks out Max for Live devices for the highly strung. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or subscribe now!
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Hardware/Software Overview: The Speakerphone
A couple of weeks ago, I filed my first EU “On The Road” report by cycling across town to visit the Audioease world headquarters to check out the where, who, and how of things. Predictably, the piece...
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Artist Focus: China Blue
China Blue’s work lives in that space where art and science overlap, and commutes to less obvious destinations from there – the Eiffel Tower, the canals of Venice, NASA’s Vertical Gun chamber, and the...
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Advanced Max: FFTs, Part 4
Now that we’ve got the basics for understanding FFT processing in Max, let’s pull it all together and make something wonderful. This week’s 42-minute video pulls pieces together from previous...
View ArticleNewsletter #102: Fire up the speakerphone and put on your thinking cap (the...
This week, Cycling ’74 checks out a software source of inspiration and chats with an artist providing insight into our brain’s activity. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or subscribe now!
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A Few Minutes with Tom Hall
Photo: Suzy Poling Even if you’ve never met him, you know my Cycling ’74 colleague and friend Tom Hall; It was his dulcet Tasmanian voice that urged you on through your first Max for Live...
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