An Interview with Timothy Weaver
ArthropodaChordataConiferophyta, live cinema performance, (2013-15), Timothy Weaver This week, I have the pleasure of presenting a conversation with friend, colleague and mentor, Timothy Weaver. We...
View ArticleMy Favorite Object: jstrigger
I’m a huge fan of using Javascript in Max via the js and jsui objects. It provides a fairly comprehensive tool set for patcher scripting and more programmatic approaches to certain Max tasks, all in...
View ArticleNewsletter #90: Check out a biomedia artist and some Javascript tricks.
This week, Cycling ’74 visits with a biomedia artist about biomes and his (patching) life, and shows you some amazing tricks using the jstrigger object. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or...
View ArticleBook Review: Art and Electronic Media
Last month, I suggested some “basic bookshelf” titles intended to help newcomers to the practice of doing experimental music to get “the lay of the land” – to connect themselves to the community of...
View ArticleAdvanced Max: FFTs, Part 1
Here’s the first in a series on using the FFT in Max. Spend 26 minutes building two spectral effects processing patchers including a version of the classic Forbidden Planet example. Download the...
View ArticleNewsletter #91: Get up to speed on FFTs and add to your collection of useful...
This week, Cycling ’74 starts a series on working with FFTs, and recommends a great book on visual and installation art. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or subscribe now!
View ArticleMy Favorite Object: multislider
It’s one of those objects that can slip by you or easily be written off as just a UI object, but it’s so much more than that. I really dig multislider and obsessively so. I should probably use other...
View ArticleOpen Your Harmonic Options: the J74 Progressive MFL Device
If you are like me, it’s easy to fall into track-writing rut. When this happens for me, it’s because I find myself starting with the same old chords in the same old order – and thus everything falls...
View ArticleNewsletter #92: Get a harmonically inspired MFL device and meet the...
This week, Cycling ’74 finds harmonic inspiration and highlights a favorite object for visually oriented Maxers. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or subscribe now!
View ArticleCollab Alliance (Season One) Official Video
I made this video clip for the Collab Alliance guys. It’s all rendered in real-time and was created entirely in MaxForLive with my Spectral One and Graphik One visual devices released on Isotonik Studios.
View ArticleReview: Getting to Know the OWL Pedal
I had intended for this article to be an in-depth review, but we’re going to go with first impressions for now – I’ll get back to you with a follow up once I have gigged with it for a bit. I’m also...
View ArticleOn The Road: NAMM 2017
Thank you for checking out something that’s a little different for us: Tom Hall, Gregory Taylor and Darwin Grosse just finished up going through the NAMM convention, and are pretty exhausted. Gregory...
View ArticleNewsletter #93: Check out an open source, programmable pedal and revisit NAMM.
This week, Cycling ’74 recaps the 2017 NAMM show and its many wonders and takes a first look at the programmable OWL pedal. Read this newsletter, visit the archives, or subscribe now!
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