The Open Reel Ensemble scratches 4 reel-to-reel analog tape recorders to make some really cool music. Very cool and an interesting reuse of classic technology. Open Reel Ensemble: Ei Wada : Concepter, Circuit, Sound Composition Kimitoshi Sato?Programing, Sound Design, Poster Design Ren Yamashita?Circuit, Craft Sayu Okano?Assistant Takuya Asakura?Craft via Califaudio, where you can find more… Read More Scratching With Reel-to-Reel Tape Decks
A clip from R. Luke DuBois and Lesley Flanigan’s Bioluminescence performance at Issue Project Room in NYC. Two performers, one singing and one processing, create a dense pallet of sound and imagery derived entirely from voice.
This music video is for Void Ship from The Chordless Chord by Beat Frequency. The track features Etherwave theremin + Marshall Echohead delay box + Danelectro PB&J delay box. No overdubs, no multi-tracking, no post-production effects, except a little reverb throughout. iTunes link: The Chordless Chord
Beat Frequency’s video for Iron Sun, from The Chordless Chord (iTunes link). The track features theremin plus delay, pitch shift, panic box and whistle pig (http://tinyurl.com/panicbox). It was recorded in a single take, with no post-processing.
This video captures Another World Bank, an experimental electroacoustic work: Another World Bank is a multi-observer audiovisual installation. It performs a unique composition that continues for the duration of the exhibition period. The composition is made up of three independent channels of randomly-ordered, brief solo improvisations. Each solo channel is a different length, thus phasing… Read More Experimental Electroacoustic Music Video
Keith McMillen’s K-Bow is a new sensor bow for stringed instruments. Combined with a standard violin, bass, cello, or viola the K-Bow allows traditional instrumentalists to access the unlimited sound world that a computer provides, while utilizing the virtuosity built from years of practice. The K-Bow gathers information about a performance through several sensors including… Read More K-Bow Turns Violins Into Electronic Music Controllers
This sequencer scans images, and plays the image as MIDI notes. It uses LDRs to measure the gray-scale of specific point of a image, and triggers MIDI notes from a selected threshold. When the threshold is reached the velocity will be set by the darkness at that point. the darker point the higher the velocity will be.
http://vimeo.com/2040381 This is the fourth in Matt Cook’s series of Drawing Events from 2003. “I am exploring sound, movement and image by inverting traditional ideas of composition – the score is created by the music, the dance is a product of the composition,” explains Cook. “All sounds are created by the drawing action, a mark sends a… Read More Experimental Artist Combines Drawing And Music Performance
Excepts from a modern dance performance that was part of the Danish Dance Theatre installation Labyrint by Tim Rushton, in Kaleidoskop K2, Copenhagen 2008. 3xw.ole.kristensen.name/works/body-navigation/ Infrared Tracking and Interactive Video Projection: Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan Choreography: Tina Tarpgaard Music performed by Athelas Sinfonietta
John Kannenberg’s Reductive Waves is a meditation on the visualization of sound, via contrasting natural and human-crafted environments. It features two main visual elements, the first of which is non-manipulated video footage of light moving across his living room wall, shot during a summer sunrise. The second is a series of digital images created via… Read More Visualization Of Sound
