Who Was That Timbre I Saw You With? by Kerry Hagan & Miller Puckette
Using cheap game controllers, two titans of computer music engage in a virtual thumb-wrestling match. As Shakespeare never wrote, "By the twitching of my thumbs, something pitchèd this way comes."
Miller Puckette is known as the creator of Max and Pure Data. As an MIT undergraduate he won the Putnam mathematics competition in 1979, but finished his PhD at Harvard in 1986. He was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab from its inception until 1986, then at IRCAM, and is now professor... Read More →