Artists need an audience to get feedback on their work, both positive and negative. One way to find an audience is by performing in the middle of a busy street… Read More
Getting the Word Out with Email Marketing
Photo Resistors are Useful for Theremin-Style Projects
Photo resistors (or Light Dependant Resistors), are useful for experimental projects such as a DIY theremin because they’re low cost and easy to get started with. You can use a… Read More
Live Coding: The Fusion of Art and Computer Science
Live coding is a sub-category of performance in which programmers will create live sound or video in front of an audience. It is common that the code will be displayed… Read More
Sonic Pi Let’s You Code Sound and Music
Sonic Pi is a free program that lets you make music by writing code. As the name suggests, it runs on the Raspberry Pi, but is also available for the… Read More
Amplification is How Sound Makes it to You
We are probably used to amplifiers being used to, amplify, the signal coming from something like an electric guitar or a microphone. However, they are also very important in the… Read More
Frames: How We Create Video
When diving into the video side of creative coding, a lot of principles from the early days of film still carry over to how we work digitally. In early cinema,… Read More
Make Your First Sound in Pure Data
Pure Data is an open source app that allows you to experiment with sound, video and physical media such as the Arduino. It also can run on the Raspberry Pi.… Read More
The Creative Project Planner (Free PDF Download)
Do you have a long list of projects you want to get done, but haven’t a clue how to get them crossed off your list? Well this is an issue… Read More
Use Morning Pages to Help Unblock Creativity
Something that might help you in your creative journey is adopting the practise of morning pages, which was first popularized by the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. While… Read More
Innovations in Sound: Bell Labs
If you want to find the roots of so many inventions and components in modern communications, one must look no further than Bell Laboratories, or Bell Labs. Currently owned by… Read More