Turntables by Thessia Machado
[Turntables is] an interactive sculpture/instrument using 2 found turntables, 10 servo motors controlled by an arduino mega and an ultrasonic distance sensor. Attached to the motors are percussion...
View ArticleFlags of a Dead Ship by Matt Collings
Flags of a Dead Ship explores the nature of the electric guitar and it’s use alongside digital technology. It also attempts to wrestle the electric guitar away from the aesthetics of rock music and as...
View ArticleReformat the Planet
This morning, one of the students in MUSC80C recommended this documentary about chiptunes. Reformat the Planet (RTP) is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as chip music,...
View ArticleInterview with Jon Cates and Jake Elliott, Founders of Numbers.FM
Evan Merz: Why? Why start this sort of radio station right now? What was the inspiration? NUMBERS.FM: The name of the station comes from those so-called “numbers stations,” shortwave radio broadcasts...
View ArticleFluid Dynamics by Adam Scott Neal
In fluid dynamics, video and audio were both heavily processed to highlight and emulate the natural behaviors of water, oil, heat, and light. Created with a combination of Ardour, Audacity, Kdenlive,...
View ArticleNew EA Album from Thomas Bjørnseth
Music by Thomas Bjørnseth. Composed 2009. 1. Image for piano and electronics – 5:15 2. Reflection for piano – 6:05 3. Colours for piano, xylophone and electronics – 4:52 4. Motif for piano – 10:14...
View ArticleIBNIZ – Multimedia Coding Environment
As demonstrated by the video, IBNIZ (Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo) is a virtual machine and a programming language that generates video and audio from very short strings of code. Technically,...
View ArticleBook Review – The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music
In December of 2011, Backbeat Books published The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music, a compendium of articles from Keyboard Magazine and its sister publication, Remix Magazine. The 229-page book was...
View ArticleHow to Render Synchronous Audio and Video in Processing using Beads
Rendering video in Processing is easy. The MovieMaker class makes it incredibly easy to render Quicktime video files from a Processing sketch. Unfortunately, Processing doesn’t supply tools for...
View ArticleSonic Space No. 2 – Iteration No. 6: Quartet by Michael Musick
Here is the last iteration in Sonic Space No. 2 written in SuperCollider. This is a quartet written for Soprano Sax, Trumpet, Tenor Sax, and Tuba. The movement around the space was not dictated but...
View ArticleInterview with Viznut, Creator of Minimal Art Platform IBNIZ
Recently, this video of IBNIZ in action made its way around the electronic music blogosphere. IBNIZ is an extremely enigmatic art platform. It’s not necessarily easy, or pretty, or even broadly...
View ArticleFieldwork by Christopher Burns
Fieldwork is a software environment for improvised performance with electronic sound and animation. Two musicians’ sounding performances are fed into the system, and analyzed for pitch, rhythm, and...
View ArticleIntubation by LRM Performance
LRM Performance is an interdisciplinary collective – group, or company if you prefer – seeking to breach borders between art disciplines. Created by composer David Aladro-Vico and plastic artist Berta...
View Articleunnamed soundsculpture by Daniel Franke
The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece...
View ArticleMoldy Sandcastles by The Archaeologist
I couldn’t find any information about this one, or the artist who made it.
View ArticleLou Reed Recovering
Lou Reed is recovering after a life-saving liver transplant. He has produced a lot of great music, not the least of which is Metal Machine Music.
View ArticleAmong Fireflies by Elainie Lillios
Among Fireflies (2010) for alto flute and live, interactive electroacoustics takes its inspiration from a haiku by poet Wally Swist, who generously granted permission to use it for the piece. Dense...
View ArticleThe Making of the Doctor Who Theme
This is an old video, but I like revisiting the classics.
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