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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...

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We Are All Scott Olsen by Max Nied

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Flags 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...

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Reformat 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,...

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Interview 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...

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The Art of Sounds – Pierre Henry Documentary

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Fluid 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,...

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New 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...

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IBNIZ – 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,...

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Book 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...

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How 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...

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Sonic 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...

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Interview 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...

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Fieldwork 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...

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Intubation 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...

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unnamed 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...

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Moldy Sandcastles by The Archaeologist

I couldn’t find any information about this one, or the artist who made it.

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Lou 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.

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Among 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...

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The Making of the Doctor Who Theme

This is an old video, but I like revisiting the classics.

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