Hannes Pasqualini is an illustrator, comic artist, and musician/noisemaker in Italy. He bought one my my Beep-its a few months back and wrote me today to describe the modifications he’s made to it. Inspired by Gijs Gieskes’ Fan Synth, Hannes added a speed-controlled fan in front of the light sensor to modulate the [...]

I’ve finished a new run of Beep-it Deluxe and have some available for purchase through my Etsy site. Thanks to everyone for the interest and support.

Big news in the past two weeks- after some fierce competition and harrowing interviews, I have been named as Scale Well’s first grant recipient.
Scale Well is a Chicago-based consortium of entreprenuers who’ve all pitched in to start a fund for helping small businesses level-up. The organization was just founded a few months ago, but [...]

Lately I’ve been working to learn my way around Processing, a free open-souce visual programming language. There’s a lot of great documentation and people always adding new libraries to it that do a lot of the heavy lifting for complex functions.
Also, a lot of people post their code online, so if you want to [...]

Here’s a little something I scripted yesterday in Processing. I’m working my way through the book Programming Interactivity. So far, so good. Next I want to start working on realtime processing of the image from a webcam.

Crystal Lattice from Michael Una on Vimeo.

I, along with several others “in the know,” have contributed to a recommended shopping list for that A/V geek in your life, which can be found here at createdigitalmusic.com.
Whether your budget is $15 or $15,000 (some people went a little crazy with the wish lists), you will most certainly find something to inspire a most [...]