Lauren McCarthy Wants to Know You
“I really want to know you, but sometimes it’s difficult, so I am doing what I can to hack my way in. Will you join me in an uneasy moment that might let us be easier?” -Lauren McCarthy Lauren...
View ArticleLive-Coding: Insider Nerd Art or Virtuoso Music?
Perry Cook, one of our founders, is one of the forerunners of live-coding: live music where the performers are programming sound as they go. He’s also a co-founder of PLOrk (the Princeton Laptop...
View ArticleFeatured Student Work of the Month: August
One of the best things about working at Kadenze is getting to see the incredible art our members create. We like to share the love with a monthly post of some of the most creative student work from the...
View ArticleKadenze Launches Its First Graphic Design Course
Yesterday, we launched Graphic Design History: an Introduction, our first graphic design course from Maryland Institute College of Art. This graphic design course is taught by MICA’s Ellen Lupton,...
View ArticleOnline Music Education: The Dawn of Robot TAs
One of our founders, Perry R. Cook, is writing a 3-part series about online music education on Class Central. Here’s a snippet of part two: the dawn of Robot TAs. We at Kadenze make extensive use of...
View Article16 Artists Using Machine Learning to Transform Digital Art
Digital art is sort of a vague term: GIFs? EDM? Photoshop? There are tons of genres of digital art, so we like to think of it this way: Art in which digital technology is central to the creative...
View ArticleHow to Write Winning Arts Grant Proposals
Working as a creative today can be an uphill battle, especially when it comes to getting the necessary resources for producing great work. That’s usually where arts grants come in. There are many,...
View ArticleNew Online Music Course – Reinventing the Piano
We take the piano as we know it for granted. We consider it a finished product. But in fact, the piano has always been in a continuous state of reinvention. Dan Trueman teaching his online music course...
View ArticleNYC-Based ÆON Ensemble Teams Up with UN at Carnegie Hall
We’ve been keeping an eye on the up-and-coming ÆON Ensemble for the last year, and for good reason: they’re changing the game for classical music. The United Nations tapped them last year for their...
View ArticleA To-Do List for Making Productive To-Do Lists
The Kadenze production team has a lot to do: we film a new course every week, organize and make coursework with our instructors, and manage post-production tasks like editing and motion effects. And...
View ArticleAmélie Deschamps: A Romance of Many Dimensions
I first heard of Amélie Deschamps perhaps 15 years ago. Originally from France, she was living in Copenhagen. The story I heard was that she would sit in the subway station and give away water in clay...
View ArticleLife Advice from a Creative Entrepreneur
Creative entrepreneur Jordan Hochenbaum is a composer, DJ, professor, and co-founder of Kadenze. All those skills come together in his newly-launched online Ableton course, where students get “hands-on...
View ArticleFeatured Student Work of the Month: September
One of the best things about working at Kadenze is getting to see the incredible art our members create. We like to share the love with a monthly post of some of the most creative student work from the...
View ArticleThe Art of Time Management – 7 Tips for Actually Useful Work
“There is never enough time!” “I worked all day and got nothing done!” “Why does my to-do list never get any smaller?” We’ve all said something similar in our work life and home life. But what...
View ArticleMax/MSP AMA with Stanford CCRMA’s Technical Director
Last month, we put it in the hands of our community to choose the topic for our next AMA. The verdict’s in: Max/MSP. Join us next Wednesday as we host a Max/MSP AMA with Stanford CCRMA’s Technical...
View Article24 Coding Programs Boosting Diversity in Tech
How does the tech world measure up against other industries in terms of diversity? Many major CEOs have discussed the importance of diversity, but the tech industry still has a long way to go with...
View ArticleOnline Music Education: Curriculum, Robot Graders and Teachers
Perry Cook’s latest article on online music education is about autograding, good online curriculum, and some of our inventions for creative critique. This final part of his series really wraps up some...
View ArticleOur Top 5 Quotes from the InVision Documentary
Recently InVision, makers of a powerful design app that we use every day, hosted a screening of their design documentary, DESIGN DISRUPTORS, in L.A., and invited our creative team to check it out....
View Article6 Creative Career Paths in the Tech World
A creative career isn’t limited to the visual or performing arts. Artistic ability is also essential for jobs in the tech industry. Explore these six career paths to see for yourself. UI/UX Designer...
View ArticleMileece: Gardening the Future
Mileece is a visionary artist who began making generative, interactive music with plants in the early 2000s. Her debut album, Formations, was critically acclaimed, the BBC calling it “Beautiful, real...
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