Limitations are such a great catalyst for creativity! Last December, Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music ran a wacky contest to celebrate the “leap second” leading into 2006. More than 30 people submitted one-second compositions ranging from sound effects to micro-riffs. Then Peter strung them together into an amazing time-lapse paean to the Earth’s slowing spin. Now, Chris Randall of...

AfterTV is a new site featuring live interviews about the state of digital media, culture, and technology. I got to sit in the hot seat recently and got some new insights about all three.

Mmm...gadgets. At last year’s Project Bar-B-Q computer-music conference, sponsor C-Media surprised the attendees by giving each of us an impossibly small audio interface. With its protective cap in place, this tiny digital-to-analog converter is less than 2.5 inches long. Yet plugged into the USB port on my crusty Dell laptop, it made a dramatic difference in sound quality. (The Dell's...

Silicon Valley’s vaunted technology showcase was designed to “engage people of all backgrounds.” So why is it failing miserably?

Here’s a happy surprise: When you burn an iTunes podcast file to CD, iTunes converts the chapters into CD tracks. Plus—a simple AppleScript that lets you jump to the exact second you want to hear in a long audio file.

Yesterday at Macworld, I got a chance to ask DVD expert Bruce Nazarian a question that has baffled me since I started making DVDs: How the heck do you avoid the glitch when the menu music loops?

My recent cover story for Electronic Musician magazine, "The Art of Podcasting," is now online for free. Apple was pretty tight-lipped when I was writing it, though, which made me wonder: What podcasting surprises does the company have up its sleeve?

In a little end-of-the-year present to my Mac and my eyes, I replaced my fridge-size CRT with a wide-screen LCD. It supposedly has the same innards as the Apple Cinema Display for $300 less. So far, so good....

Our review of the M-Audio MicroTrack -- a 24-bit, handheld stereo recorder -- shot to number 1 on Google just two days after we published it. Clearly, people are interested in mobile recording. Here are some additional resources I've found, many of them fascinating.

Related link: http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php Back when I worked at a big L.A. recording studio, I fell into a strange pattern where I’d get off my 12-hour shift, drive home, and then read audio magazines before falling asleep. (I also got a number of parking tickets, because I often couldn’t remember what day of the week it was, running me afoul of...