Peter Kirn
I'm a writer, composer, visualist and technologist. I run the sites Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion, and work on the open MeeBlip synth. I live in Berlin, Germany.
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Buy"It’s a beautiful recording, opening with snippets of broken whispers amid poised tones, and proceeding, true to its montage sensibility, through percussive experimentation, plectrum psychedelia, ominous drones, and otherworldly stasis." -Marc Weidenbaum, Disquiet Read the full interview from the San Francisco-based ambient/electronica site Disquiet: DANCE CAN’T BE STORED http://disquiet.com/2013/05/01/peter-kirn-music-for-dance-2013 MUSIC FOR DANCE is a compilation of music I produced for choreographers, 2002-2011. I've recomposed these materials into a continuous musical soundscape. It's a new narrative that's independent of the original works, but inspired by the connection to these collaborators. I realize looking back at this work that it represents a chapter in my life, living in Manhattan and working in computer sounds in live, improvisatory contexts, challenged and transformed by the experience of space and time found in the modern dance scene there. Now, looking back on those nine years in New York City takes on a special meaning. I want in particular to recognize the long-term collaborative relationships I had with two choreographers and fellow Sarah Lawrence College alumni, Kathy Westwater and Christopher Williams. The sound materials here come largely from work for Kathy Westwater, especially her Dark Matter series, along with works completed with Christopher Williams, Elise Knudson, and Pauliina Ailennoinen. The sounds are synthesized or heavily digitally processed, with only momentary incursions of sampled and found sound, including a brief interludes of my own vocals and processed flute/vocal sounds recorded with the talented Margaret Lancaster. Venues included Dance Theater Workshop, 92nd Street Y, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Joyce SoHo, and others. Thanks to John Yannelli, Sarah Rudner, Dan Hurlin, and Emily Devine of the Sarah Lawrence Dance program. In memory of Viola Farber, who helped launch me on this journey.-
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BuyThe End of Train Device (ETD) is the small metal box, equipped with a flashing light, now seen on the last car of a train where once there was a caboose. I grew up with a love of railroads, the sound of freight trains echoing in the middle of the Kentucky nights. I watched the last gasps of the old-fashioned caboose as the ETD caught on in the 80s, alongside the personal computer. The ETD represents both the loss of something romantic and the transformation into something new, a flashing box that marks the unimaginable flow behind our world. They trace telemetry, the connective tissue of brake lines that binds a long freight train into a single organism, as they make their way along the tangible circuits of our civilization. They are, in a sense, cyborg conductor and brakeman, but also the mind of the machine. They chirp away on radio frequencies, sending a signal that communicates the status of the moving train. PETER KIRN is a New York-based musician and visualist, known for running the sites createdigitalmusic.com and createdigitalmotion.com. More at http://flavors.me/peterkirn Artwork: Richard Bailey (proem) Mastering Engineer: Danny Wyatt Download the album for a high-quality PDF insert with proem's artwork and P.KIRN's photography. Sign up for my mailing list to stay in touch on events.-
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- Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Create Digital Media, GmbHMusic | Berlin Area, Germany, DESummary
Musician, digital media artist, and technology expert with experience in making media technology accessible to broad audiences as a consultant, writer, teacher. Interested in producing dynamic, interactive sound and motion content and continuing to help others learn to make the most of advanced, real-time media for music and visuals.
Specialties: Content development, production, training and education, consulting, technology documentation, video trainingExperience- Jan 2012 - PresentFounder and Editor-in-Chief / Create Digital Media, GmbH
Publisher of
http://createdigitalmusic.com
http://createdigitalmotion.comAnd manufacturer of the MeeBlip synthesizer
- Nov 2004 - PresentPresident and Editor / Create Digital Media, Ltd.
Creator of createdigitalmusic.com (named one of PC World's 100 favorite blogs of 2007 and a Feedster Top 25 blog for 2005), createdigitalmotion.com, and a growing community of bleeding edge tech creatives
- Jan 2004 - PresentContributing Editor / Keyboard Magazine
Regular contributor on feature music editorial content and music technology reviews and tutorials
- Jan 2001 - PresentTechnology author / Freelance
Regular contributor Make Magazine, Macworld Magazine, Computer Music Magazine (UK), others
Author, Real World Digital Audio, comprehensive guide to making music with computers (Peachpit Press, 2005)
- Sept 2000 - PresentComposer/Media Artist / Freelance
As a composer and digital artist across a wide variety of media, I create and perform music, interactive visuals, and performance visuals. I'm a composer with experience in writing for varied instrumentations and vocal and chamber music as well as electronic media, a live electronic musician, and a live visualist / VJ. I've been commissioned to produce original music and visuals for performers like pianist Kathleen Supove and members of Lionheart and Anonymous 4, and choreographers Christopher Williams and Kathy Westwater. I also regularly combine my work with master classes at institutions like Connecticut College and West Chester University. My work has been presented internationally and televised in Canada and Europe.
- 2009 - Aug 2011Adjunct Faculty, Creative Computing and Interactive Music / Parsons School of Art, Media, and Technology
Taught courses in Creative Computing and Design and Sound, using Processing and Arduino (and for the sound course, which I originated, Pd). Planned curricula in Processing and Arduino for the six or so sections of introductory design coursework.
- 2008 - 2011Android, Linux, desktop multimedia contributor / Freelance open source development
- 2008 - 2008Adjunct Faculty / Massachusetts College of Art
Taught coursework in Processing and design.
- Sept 2006 - May 2007Adjunct Faculty / CUNY Brooklyn College
Teaching Computer Music I and II; advanced multimedia software programming, synthesis, effects processing, and interactive performance techniques with Max/MSP/Jitter software
- Sept 2003 - May 2005Adjunct Faculty / Hunter College
Taught Undergraduate Music Theory I (counterpoint, analysis, basic tonal harmony), keyboard skills and musicianship, and Computer Music (basic instruction in music technology)
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2000 - 2013City University of New York Graduate CenterPhD in Music Composition
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1996 - 2000Sarah Lawrence CollegeBA in Music
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Honors:Feedster.com Top 30 Feeds of 2005: Create Digital Music Presidential Lecture Series, CUNY Medgar Evers College Honorable Mention, Brian Israel Prize for New Music (as composer) Theodore Presser Music Fellowship (as composer)
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Interests:Computer music, VJing, live interactive sound and visual performance, interactive software programming, custom multimedia development Flash/Flex development, Java/Processing.org development, Max/MSP/Jitter
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Tweets
- Extraordinary mix by Electric Indigo. Techno, a broader definition: http://t.co/tKuGX0QVfm
- @wblut They replaced an often-crappy renderer (the fault of odd legacy Java APIs) with a better one.
- @wblut ? Not sure what you mean.
- What folks don't know about Processing is, with OpenGL, GPU, it can be *fast*. 2.0 approaches. http://t.co/FNj35ugmUv
- @julienbayle Nice! Think your publisher would be game for us running an excerpt?
- RT @goodmtn: Tape Op 95 available now over at Good Mountain! @tapeopmag #tapeop... http://t.co/iDmGExXgQs
- @spazecraft Thanks, man. Peace to NYC from across the ocean...
- @kristinmiltner Wow, thanks! Nice to hear.
- The hell with Eurovision. I've got Karneval der Kulturen on Radio Eins, Xcode, and midnight chili cooking.
- Actually, kind of like 80% Eurovision and about 20% Google I/O. Draw your own conclusions.
- This is epic. Truly 100% of my Twitter feed is Eurovision.
- @IntegraLive Have a look at FUDI, the internal messaging protocol. Would be great to build on this; working on that.
- @IntegraLive @digimusictrends @musictechfest @palmsounds Never mind, read the first message. ;) Brilliant!
- @IntegraLive @digimusictrends @musictechfest @palmsounds Ah, yes, that'd do it. And you're doing that now, or still on OSC?
- @digimusictrends @integralive @musictechfest @PalmSounds Interesting … Flex + Pd, huh? (guess native libpd won't work in Flex)
- @daringfireball What does "open always wins" even mean in regards to Hangout? Kinda hoping Hangout's closed nature loses, frankly.
- @millejano Thanks! (What's Rinjehört mean? ;)
- Any parameter, clip, envelope -> visuals. Yeah, @Ableton fans have been waiting for this. http://t.co/FfLX9moVh4
- @neilclavin yeah, hit me up -- following you now so I get DMs ;)
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Tracks
- (00:00)Full-length album.
SoundCloud premiere site: http://endoftra.in
Artwork by Richard Bailey (proem)
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Map
- SONAR 132013-06-13 - 2013-06-18
- Mapping Festival2013-05-09 - 2013-05-12
- Wroclaw, Poland, May 20132013-05-03 - 2013-05-05
- Return from Messe2013-04-11 - 2013-04-12
- Paris + IRCAM/IanniX/Presences Electroniques2013-04-05 - 2013-04-09
- Belgrade, Serbia, March 20132013-03-20 - 2013-03-24
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Checkins
- Create Digital Media, GmbHMainzerstr 58 EG
- PiccalillyWeserstr. 7-8
- Passenger EspressoOppelner Str. 46
- KanalPlanufer
- Create Digital Media, GmbHMainzerstr 58 EG
- Medienhaus BerlinWeisenweg 5-7
- Salon zur wilden RenateAlt-Stralau 70
- Kiessee KiekebuschRotberger Dorfstraße
- S+U NeuköllnKarl-Marx-Str.
- NeuköllnNeukölln
- Kreuzberg PavillonNaunynstraße 53
- Open Design CityPrinzessinnenstr. 19-20
- Kaiser'sWrangelstraße 53
- eliza - Café & LieblingsstückeSorauer Straße 6
- New Deli YogaFalckensteinstr. 37
- Berliner SparkasseWarschauer Str. 55
- Görlitzer ParkGörlitzer Str.
- TiERWeserstr. 42
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Repositories
- Sketches of visual interfaces and visualizations for music, built with libpd/ Pushed Aug 22, 12
- The official jQuery user interface library.2294 forks / 7366 watchers / Pushed May 22, 13
- A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line94 forks / 1330 watchers / Pushed May 22, 13
- Implementation of Collection+JSON media type5 forks / 25 watchers / Pushed May 22, 13
- OpenFrameworks is a cross platform open source toolkit for creative coding in C++.4 forks / 16 watchers / Pushed May 07, 13
- A Java audio library, designed to be used with Processing.20 forks / 110 watchers / Pushed May 06, 13
- An Android application for managing your todo.txt file stored in Dropbox.212 forks / 631 watchers / Pushed May 06, 13
- 11 watchers / Pushed Mar 03, 13
- Collection of hacks and demos showing capability of HTML5 apps959 forks / 2639 watchers / Pushed Jan 13, 13
- A Csound Library for Processing. This project is now being maintained at the following fork:3 forks / 14 watchers / Pushed Jan 05, 13
- An interactive, web-based, multi-user, 3D application, based on KataJS and Sirikata.10 forks / 53 watchers / Pushed May 12, 12
- Git repository for the official reCAPTCHA Plugin for WordPress21 forks / 35 watchers / Pushed Feb 23, 12
- tilt-sensitive audio loop player, firmware and hardware, designed for fol chen1 fork / 8 watchers / Pushed Dec 08, 11
- Pitch-Correction App for Android, automatically tune your voice!14 forks / 55 watchers / Pushed Oct 09, 11
- A GUI plugin to put Training Wheels for people starting out with Pd3 watchers / Pushed Jan 19, 11
- bonjour-enabled serial router using open sound control1 fork / 11 watchers / Pushed Apr 25, 10
