Category: Art

Confronting existential dread through DIY musical instruments

[ad_1] All right, so calling these “musical instruments” isn’t particularly helpful. They are instruments in that they can be used to make music in the broadest sense of the word. A Day That Will Never Happen Again is basically a drum machine. Here You Are, You Are Here is a synthesizer. And Everything You Love […]

HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ isn’t afraid to show how teens really use tech

[ad_1] The girls, meanwhile, sext back with their own provocative shots, which typically involve a lot more effort than what the guys put in. (Big surprise there.) TV series like Riverdale have certainly dabbled in this territory, but Euphoria puts the new high school mating dance on full uncensored display. It’s not like romance is […]

Sony is using AI to replace drummers, one beat at a time

[ad_1] In order to train the AI system, Sony’s researchers compiled data from 665 different songs from a wide range of genres including pop, rock and electronica. The songs all feature ryhthm instruments, bass, kick and snares that were available as separate 44.1kHZ audio tracks. With the contexual signals of those tracks, the researchers created […]

AI knitting system designs and creates garments

[ad_1] Even non expert knitters can use the system to create individual designs from customizable templates on a computer. The designs are then sent to a knitting machine, which fabricates the designs out of real wool. The advantage of templates is that common shapes such as hats or gloves are easy to recreate, and users […]

‘No Man’s Sky VR’ arrives August 14th with ‘Beyond’ update

[ad_1] It includes several big updates, including support for PSVR and other virtual reality headsets. That’ll let you experience all parts of the game in VR. Beyond will also greatly expand the social and multiplayer options, helping you meet and play with other people. Though No Man’s Sky is adopting some MMO-style gameplay, it won’t […]

CraftSynth 2.0 is portable, fun and a little bit flimsy

[ad_1] Before we get to the sacrifices, let’s run through the features. The Craft 2 is a monophonic wavetable synthesizer. That means, theoretically, you can only play one note at a time. However, a “spread” function detunes the eight oscillators to fatten up the sound or play full chords. Even though there are eight oscillators, […]

Chinese video-game censorship doesn’t end with ‘Devotion’

[ad_1] It’s hard to overstate how large Tencent is as a tech company or how much influence it exerts on the video-game industry every day, in a million silent ways. Tencent lingers around the back of the list of top 10 companies in the world, consistently valued at well over $300 billion. Tencent Interactive Entertainment […]

Remedy’s latest trailer for ‘Control’ digs into the supernatural shooter’s story

[ad_1] That agency is the Federal Bureau of Control, and your character, Jesse Faden, has supernatural abilities of her own to rely on. Last year narrative director Anna Megill told Engadget “we’re trying to make something unexpected,” with a game that’s the studio’s least-linear experience yet, compared to games like Alan Wake or Max Payne, […]

Jammy’s digital guitar is a futuristic idea let down by today’s tech

[ad_1] Essentially, Jammy is a MIDI controller with built-in sounds. It’s not the first guitar-style MIDI controller, but they’re not common. There’s a good reason for that: They’re very hard to do right. There are a lot of moving parts, and the way in which a guitar is played makes it much harder to track […]

Watch this ‘Heartman’ cutscene to learn more about ‘Death Stranding’

[ad_1] Hideo Kojima’s upcoming “cinematic adventure” game for PlayStation 4 is still quite a mystery, but this Death Stranding trailer that debuted at Comic-Con last week reveals more about it. Leaks of the video appeared online recently, but now you can watch it at home in full quality, as the character “Heartman” — based on […]