Alfred Duarte brings us another beautiful “wiimote instrument.” This one is built using Sony’s gesture controller, but the basic gestural control remains the same. In fact, this particular instrument bears a striking resemblance to gestural instruments from the 1980s, in the way that the distance between the two controllers acts as a sound parameter. [...]

Brian Viglione just posted a pair of videos showing off the drum kit he created for use in Trent Reznor’s Ghosts album. Apparently, the pair wanted to see what sort of rhythm section they could create from scratch in a single day.

I showed up at Trent’s house for the first day of recording and [...]

It’s always fun to hear a musician use a unique sound source. Diego Stocco has managed to create a bevy of interesting sounds from a tree in his yard.

In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day [...]

Earlier this year, we looked at how to read and write wav files in C++ and VB.Net, and C/C++ is really the natural choice for this kind of file IO (for a number of reasons that we won’t go into here). Nonetheless, not everyone uses C or C++ for computer music software. Increasingly, [...]