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Roundware: Connecting Spaces, People, and Sensory Experiences
By Kira Grunenberg This past weekend, on a single floor of the Microsoft New England Research and Development Labs, the Music Tech Fest, Boston edition, crammed in three full and continuous days of presentations, demos, questions and answers. One of many laudable presentations from the festival was Roundware, presented by sound artist and musician Halsey Burgund.
Happy Birthday, Twitter! Oops.
Twitter, the social media site and micro-blogging platform responsible for some of the most salient advances in media and technology, as well as some of the most contemptible offenses in culture, has turned eight years old today. To celebrate, Twitter has launched #FirstTweets, which will dig up your very first Tweet from its archives (hope
London’s Music Tech Fest Comes to Boston
By Kira Grunenberg With a plethora of digital devices and music players perforating modern life, you’d think that the relationship between music and technology would be a more widely discussed topic. Despite the many startups that merge tech and music, a dedicated platform that brings together the growing, lucrative music technology sector is still quite
Inside The Moog Room at Rough Trade NYC
A disorienting blend of whirrs, beeps, hisses, sirens, and the occasional chord stab inundates the open, concrete warehouse of New York’s recently opened Rough Trade record store. In an elevated boxcar just past the building entrance, the legendary synthesizer company Moog has installed several rigs of modular synthesizers, open to the public for play, experimentation, and
Soundwave Doubles Down with Desktop Music Capture Update
By Kira Grunenberg You might wonder why a widely successful mobile-only app would expand to the stationary side of the technologic border. That’s what Soundwave has done with their most recent update, now available in the iTunes App and Google Play stores. However, the tagline for the update, “Soundwave moves to capture desktop music,” is assuredly
[Interview] Nick Klimchuk, CEO of Encore
By Carolyn Heneghan “Notice the sea of screens at concerts? Live music events are the number one usage occasion of smartphones, and yet there is no go-to concert app,” said Encore CEO Nicholas Klimchuk in a recent press release. “We’re trying to change that with Encore.” You probably noticed it at the last live show