Free Music Friday: The 1970 Dartmouth Electronic Music Competition

Free Music Friday: Anablog has posted free MP3s of a vintage electronic music album, The 1970 Dartmouth Electronic Music Competition. You can preview one of the tracks below, Richard Allan Robinson’s Ambience: [display_podcast] The source material for Ambience was produced on an “instrument” consisting of three electric bass guitar strings strung lengthwise across a long… Read More Free Music Friday: The 1970 Dartmouth Electronic Music Competition

June 12, 20093 Comments

The Electronic Sound Of Raw Metal

Raw Metal, a collaboration between bulbcollective and Suzi Tibbetts, is an interactive musical performance constructed with metal, both in the actual and sonic senses. Every sound utilised by Raw Metal has been sourced entirely from the recording of metal objects. Audiences are invited to both accompany as well as actively contribute to Raw Metal’s pre-composed… Read More The Electronic Sound Of Raw Metal

May 22, 2009May 22, 2009Leave a comment

Music From Painting

http://vimeo.com/4668349 What does painting sound like? That’s the question explored by Jen Cotton’s Pour Sound, an experimental electronic music piece that translates painting into sound: This is using openFrameworks for the computer vision and Super Collider to generate the sound. The CV reads the color values of the canvas and generates sound based on the… Read More Music From Painting

May 22, 2009Leave a comment

Richard Strauss’ Wiegenlied, On Theremin

R. Strauss WIEGENLIED theremin/MIDI theremin was uploaded by: copperleaves
Duration: 372
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May 21, 20092 Comments

First Wii-Controlled Beethoven Symphony!

On Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Paul Henry Smith will conduct the first-ever live concert of a Beethoven Symphony using a digital orchestra, performed by Vienna Symphonic Library’s Vienna Instruments at Holy Name Church in Boston. This will be the first concert in a series that will present all nine Beethoven symphonies. The Fauxharmonic Orchestra, founded… Read More First Wii-Controlled Beethoven Symphony!

May 11, 2009May 11, 20093 Comments

Avant-Garde Cellist Zoe Keating

Avant-garde Cellist Zoe Keating was uploaded by: wired
Duration: 193
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May 5, 20096 Comments

Composing For Theremin

Eric Ross’s Composing For the Theremin is an interesting and concise article that reviews the unique challenges and opportunities of writing music for the theremin: To write for the theremin effectively one should know its strengths and weaknesses. The theremin is a monophonic instrument; which is to say, it can only produce one pitch at… Read More Composing For Theremin

May 1, 2009May 1, 2009Leave a comment

The Bizarre Electro-Mechanical Exertion Instruments Of Noah Vawter

IevansPolkka was uploaded by: AndyCavatorta
Duration: 49
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April 28, 2009Leave a comment

Banjo Synthesizer. It’s Been A Long Time Coming.

If you’re like me, you’ve probably noticed an extreme paucity of the banjo in modern electronic music. Banjos in trance music? Zilch. Banjos in IDM? Zilch. Banjos in avant garde erotic electroactoustic music? Again, Zilch. Banjos in the work of Richard D. James? The world may never know. Number of dance music divas that make… Read More Banjo Synthesizer. It’s Been A Long Time Coming.

April 10, 2009April 10, 200911 Comments

Black Rain

Semiconductor’s Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME’s (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth. Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission. Working with… Read More Black Rain

April 8, 2009Leave a comment

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