Category: app

• July 24, 2014

  See the Future of Music

  As part of a recent Monthly Music Hackathon series in Brooklyn, programmers and hackers gathered for ten hours to build “music visualizations” in order to
• June 3, 2014

  Musician Challenges Fans to Digital Duel

  Jordan Rudess, the keyboardist for Dream Theater is asking fans to join him for a dueling keyboard duet that will take place during a concert in New York this month.
• May 29, 2014

  New App Turns Vinyl Into Digital Playground

  Someday World is the latest release from ambient composer Brian Eno and Underworld front-man Karl Hyde. The vinyl edition of Eno/Hyde offers a very special enhancement thanks to an augmented reality app that treats the album as a stage, floating a vibrant collection of abstract virtual cities just above the surface of the disc.
• May 27, 2014

  Ultimate Deadmau5

  Deadmau5 has recently launched a self-titled app for iOS that serves as a digital destination offering “premium content and intimate experiences”—think new Deadmau5 music, live streaming, photos, private messages and discussion boards—a virtual club where Deadmau5 fans can converge and interact with their favorite EDM artist on a new level.
• May 21, 2014

  App Turns City Into Musical Instrument

  At the recent Moogfest Music and Technology Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, Conductar, an experimental music app, was released to the music-and-tech-loving masses. Participants who wore brain-monitoring
• September 20, 2013

  Thank You!

  Well, as you may have noticed, ROKRIOT is no longer a functioning blog. The basic reason is quite simple: time. As any other blogger will tell you, research, writing, and posting take time— LOTS of time, and more than I can handle with the needs of clients, developing passion projects, and, most importantly, family. So…
• June 4, 2013

  OK GO Have Their Way With Words

  It’s no secret that OK GO have a knack for viral marketing—just take a look at the videos for “Here It Goes Again” or “This Too Shall Pass“. Now the band has moved beyond
• May 28, 2013

  Tunetrace

  Tunetrace is a fascinating new music app created by students from the University of London. The app allows you to photograph drawings and turn
• May 23, 2013

  DevoBots

  DEVO is allowing fans to play with their music through the newly released DevoBots app. The app gives users access to previously unreleased
• April 29, 2013

  Ninja Jamm

  Electronic label, Ninja Tune, has appropriately released Ninja Jamm, a “mixing and jamming” app that allows users to remix music from the label’s catalog.