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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...

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Live-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...

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Featured 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...

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Kadenze 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,...

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Online 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...

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16 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...

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How 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,...

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New 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...

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NYC-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...

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A 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...

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Amélie 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...

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Life 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...

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Featured 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...

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The 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...

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Max/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...

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24 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...

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Online 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...

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Our 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....

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6 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...

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Mileece: 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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