This tabletop game inspired by Oasis is somehow not terrible
The brothers Gallagher have unwittingly birthed a charmer.
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Videogames and electronic music: still the best thing
Michna and Heathered Pearls will be spinning at Two5six’s public arcade.
Think you’re bad at karaoke? Wait until you hear this computer mash-up
Who wouldn’t you want to try it?
The latest track blowing up clubs is a surprisingly heavy remix of a Zelda song
Everyone’s freaking out over this Zelda x Juicy J remix and we totally get why.
Announcing a free monthly public arcade at the Ace Hotel
What are you doing March 31?
Feel the amazing pain of creating 8-bit art
Beads: not just for bracelets.
Off-Peak splits the difference between a videogame and a mood board
Where Coltrane and Rinse Dream collide.
Electronic composer Keith Fullerton Whitman on the joys of piles of hardware
Keith Fullerton Whitman has spent decades exploring electronic utterances. He first began playing with them on his Commodore Vic20 when he was ten, but eventually moved on to study music at Berklee. By the early aughts, when software tools for creating electronic music were getting cheaper and easie
Pippin Barr made a sound system that’s only as pretty as you let it be
Pippin Barr takes on Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. The results are as noisy as you want.
Public radio’s videogame music guru Emily Reese wants you to listen up
A conversation with public radio’s most outspoken advocate for the art of videogame composition.
Vib-Ribbon is a love letter to obsolete technology
The progenitor of the music game, crystallized.
Hatsune Miku is here to destroy everything you love (and hate) about pop stardom
Pop’s uncanny valley makes her way to the States.
The calming, lovely Music of the Spheres is free now
Two years ago, Hamish Todd was diligently working on a puzzle-shooter called Music of the Spheres. Inspired in equal parts by Castlevania, Everyday Shooter, and the geometric beauties of Islamic art, the game was quiet, almost still, and, according to Todd, its reception was equally quiet. “Aside fr
Rooftop Cop investigates the "ritual manifestations" of police violence
“At what point does a cop become a threat to the subject they’re supposed to protect?”
The return of Aphex Twin, and why it matters
Richard D. James is the ghost in the machine.
Sketches from Radiohead’s Polyfauna app highlight the creative process
Say the words “Radiohead” and “new music” almost anywhere and you are bound to attract attention. Maybe even a lot of attention. So when I heard that Radiohead’s interactive wandering app, PolyFauna, from developer Universal Everything, was not only being updated but also that it had 8 new tracks th
Turn your regular PC into a visual instrument with Ojoon EP
Take a break from work and do this.
Stop what you’re doing and watch this documentary on Japanese videogame music
Nobuo Uematsu, meet FlyLo.
Human Harp lends grace to industrial spaces
Di Mainstone is an artist whose work bridges the gap between sculpture and the human body. She entwines the two, creating wearable, touchable, playable apparatuses that range from pulsing Cronenberg-style bioforms to a neck-mounted motion-based instrument that transforms its wearer into a one-woman
Bow before your new god, this interactive tree of lights
Musician/tinkerer/muse Imogen Heap has created your new idol.
Documentary on sound in videogames explores human/machine divide
Rage with the machine. Not against it. “8bit captures the tug and pull between computer and player, the interaction between an unforgiving system and your racing heart.”
What do Flying Lotus, Piet Mondrian and Frank Lloyd Wright have in common? This app.
A simple app asks a lot of questions.
Of doom metal, women, and videogames
The walls came tumbling down.
Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame is ridiculous, glorious
Rock and opera go together like baking soda and vinegar, so it goes without saying that Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame is the most glorious, ostentatious guitar-epic ever played. I don’t think I’m overstating this. I don’t think overstatement is even possible. I mean, the trailer presents one m
Harmonix featured alongside Björk and a bunch of cool electronic artists at digital art show
Videogames in museums are nothing new, but usually exhibits with games are exclusively about games and separate from the other art, as if games are relegated to the kid’s table because of the fear they’d make inappropriate fart noises in front of the grown-ups. But the Digital Revolution exhibit, o