Transform any binary file into sound and MIDI, right in your browser, free

01000011 01101111 01101111 01101100 00100001! Binary Synth runs in your browser, and translates any binary file from its zeros and ones into audio synthesis and MIDI messages. The code is available under an MIT license, too, if you want to play with it.

Alpaca interweaves code and pattern, from music to textile to dance

The history of computation is connected to textiles. And in everything from choreographic gestures to weaving, one event makes patterns sing in music and materials and bodies. Across Sheffield, Berlin, Barcelona, Linz, and online, the latest Alpaca Conference is entering its second weekend, following an in-person festival the first weekend.

Peter Kirn - September 18, 2025

TouchDesigner has a free meetup today on kinetic installations

London’s Music Hackspace has kicked off a series of free TouchDesigner meetups – and anyone can join from anywhere online. Today’s episode is on at 5 pm London time (check that world clock!), featuring kinetic installations.

Peter Kirn - February 18, 2025

NTS-3 is kaoss pad as kit, complete with SDK – plus updated NTS-1

Peter Kirn - January 19, 2024

You can play rave classic game wipEout in the browser – for now

Peter Kirn - August 29, 2023

PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP

Peter Kirn - February 21, 2023

Chantlings, an app where animated forest creatures sing along with you, is a marvel of design

Peter Kirn - August 25, 2022

Make your own MIDI-to-CV adapter in a skull, with a 3D printer and CircuitPython

Peter Kirn - August 10, 2022

Atari, at 50, leaves a legacy of electronic imagination in visuals and sound

Peter Kirn - June 29, 2022

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