Patch In

In this episode, Joo Won Park stops by to talk about no-input mixers, building a powerful/low-budget audio rig, and programming in SuperCollider and Faust. MaxMSP updates MPE support (which Ben explains in the 2MC). And Ben may have released an album…

In this episode, Ben and Nate talk with composer, luthier, and pedal tinkerer Dave Watkins about the Dulcitar, building your own instruments, improving and looping, ballet, and becoming an accidental VJ. Plus news, and Nate explains noise reduction.

In this episode, Jj Kidder talks with Ben and Nate about modular synths, modeling chaos, feedback loops, and improvising with a chaotic system. Plus product news, and Ben attempts to explain antialiasing oscillators.

In this episode, Joe Plazak drops by to talk about music cognition, its implications for electro-acoustic (and just acoustic) music, listener normalization, and the… well… dogcoder. Plus, new Radiohead, AVID gets desperate, and Nate explains impedance.

In this episode, Linda Antas talks about sonifying GPS data, coding in multiple (sometimes complementary) languages, composing by hiking, and macro-photography of small and shiny objects. Ben and Nate mourn Pd-Extended, and Ben explains noise gates.

In this episode, Ben and Nate talk with Anthony Marasco about hardware hacking, microcontrollers, blowing students' minds, and the possibility of a Patch In book club. Plus news and information, and Nate explains convolution in the 2 Minute Challenge.

In this episode, Ben and Nate talk with Per Bloland about composing an opera, virtual 8-stringed guitars, magnets (and how they make pianos work!), modernism, and your Norwegian grandmother's spellbook. Plus news, and Ben explains Control Voltage.

In this very special episode, Ben and Nate talk with Curtis Roads about his music, granular synthesis, Ferraris, and his new book "Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic." Plus, Max 7.1, SPLICE, and the 2 Minute Challenge.

In this episode Ben and Nate talk to Steve Ricks about his piece Medusa in Fragments for Keith Kirchoff, updating mythology for modern times, and using the piano to process audio, and using typography and video. Plus news and the two minute challenge.

In this episode, Ben and Nate talk to Mark Sullivan and Matt Schoendorff, and, well, Ben, about their recent work composing music for MSU's Cyclotron and FRIB. Also, Ableton gets an update, KMI labs shares future toys, and Nate explains Processing.