New Signal Process

Harness iOS music-making potential with new interface pedals

New Signal Process made a splash in the digital music scene last year with their BreakOut pedal, allowing musicians to interface their instruments directly with the plethora of iPad and iPhone apps. This week they dropped two new pedals which deliver even more options to digital music masters. The BreakOut Stomp was birthed in response to guitarists and bassists badgering NSP with product suggestions. Fusing …

Phoenix Down

Brooklyn hip hop trio release their latest album on a pixelated feather

Besides eliminating clutter, one of our favorite upshots of the post-CD era is the micro-movement of creative USB stick design. We’ve seen Doc Martens, surfboards and Red Stripe bottles among other adorable forms for the little devices, so it’s somewhat surprising that more bands haven’t paired sound and vision like Junk Science and Scott Thorough recently did by releasing their new album Phoenix Down on …

Tristan Perich

A musician-programmer translates data into melodies

Equal parts programmer and musician, Tristan Perich graduated from Columbia University in 2004 and went on to earn a masters at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Interactive Telecommunications program in 2007. While the interdisciplinary nature of ITP encourages a student body full of artists, programmers, theorists and less easily classifiable types, there’s nothing confusing about Perich’s work today. Designing code to create music or …