Luke Lacey (Create digital music)

Student:
(Luke Lacey 09005785)

Chosen blog:
Create digital music (http://createdigitalmusic.com/)

Chosen post:
Subcycle: Multitouch sound crunching with gestures, 3D waveforms (http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/15/subcycle-multitouch-sound-crunching-with-gestures-3d-waveforms/)

The blog I have chosen for my assignment is create digital music. This blog is based solely on everything and anything to do with digital and experimental music the blog was made by Peter Kirn.

Peter Kirn is a composer/musician, media artist, educator, and technology writer based in New York City who is currently a PHD student at the City University in New York graduate centre. He is the author of real world digital audio from peechpit press, a comprehensive book on producing music with computers and digital technology. His own music and digital art has been displayed in many places such as the U.S., Korea, Canada, France, and Bulgaria. He often collaborates with dance and other media art forms, including working with famous choreographer Christopher Williams on the Bessie Award-winning Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins. As well as this he writes for popular magazines like Macworld, Make, Keyboard.

I really enjoyed following this blog as there was constantly new interesting and fun digital instruments and technologies being posted on the blog and there was a great variety of topics and discussions. Some of the categories peter had on his blog were:

News :
Where he would talk about all the latest news to do with all aspects of digital media.

Reviews:
Where peter would review the latest releases of digital instruments and software so that buyers can first weigh up the pro’s and con’s of the item buy veiwing the review.

Hardware:
Where he takes a hands on look at all the newest hardware from keyboards to sound cards that are on the market.

Software :where the latest software is announced and reviewed

In general there are about 2 to 3 posts per day on the blog and all of them are very interesting and enjoyable to read.
The target audience was mainly people who have strong interest in digital music but also digital art and other art forms. The user does not have to be too familiar with blogs as the blog has a very user friendly interface and is laid out very well.The language used on the blog was generals very casual and again very user friendly

My chosen post is the Subcycle: Multitouch sound crunching with gestures, 3D waveforms it is simply amazing technology it isa touch screen that gives you the capability to twist and morph waveforms from a track. Three-dimensional forms morph and vibrate using visuals programmed in Processing, making shapes and spaces that really begin to “look” like sound. The post features a video demo of the instrument being played which makes this post all the more enjoyable and the feedback from viewers was great. This post was heavily discussed and admired by viewers and was in my opinion the most ground breaking post i came across in my time of following this blog.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?s=Subcycle

The layout of the page is excellent the ads, website links and subscription icons were in a confined space alone the right hand side of the page , the top of the page is taking up by images and links to different pages of the blog while the newest posts were all down the middle and left of the page with embedded images and video’s accompanying them. The video’s are a great idea with this blog as almost every post has a video of the instrument or technology with it so you can see the item in action.


My comments:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/21/going-mobile-velocity-sensitive-touch-pads-on-an-iphone-igog-says-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-986609

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/28/performing-audiovisualists-visionsonic-festival-france-streaming-live-29th-31st-october/comment-page-1/#comment-986607

http://kotaku.com/5391734/new-star-trek-online-screens-fresh-off-the-replicator/gallery/

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/19/the-sonic-manipulator-bizarre-wearable-musical-inventions-stolen-from-space-aliens/