La Jetee, With Improvised Electronic Music Soundtrack

http://vimeo.com/3038037 Chris Marker’s La Jetee, with improvised electronic soundtrack performed by Central Saint Martins Fine Art students on the 28th January 2009. Instruments included Theremin, Tone Generator, Reel to Reel tape loops, percussion synth, Space Echo, Korg DS10, Buddah Machine 2 and rattler. The performance was part of the Under the Radar lecture and workshop… Read More La Jetee, With Improvised Electronic Music Soundtrack

Virtuosistic Ondes Martenot Performance

via Thomas Bloch: Formule is one of the most virtuosistic piece written for solo ondes Martenot, composed by and played here by the French multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bloch (ondes Martenot, glassharmonica, cristal Baschet), who has played as well with Radiohead, Gorillaz and John Cage. Video recorded live in the Barbican Center, London (October 2007). Other names… Read More Virtuosistic Ondes Martenot Performance

Subaquatic Music With Glass Instruments

This beautiful and strange documentary captures the performance of Styx, music by the French electronic music composer Michel Redolfi, inventor of the subaquatic concerts. The concerts took place in Lille swimming pool (France, summer 2004). Glass instruments are played by French multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Thomas Bloch (glassharmonica, cristal Baschet, ondes Martenot) and electronic devices and sounds… Read More Subaquatic Music With Glass Instruments

San Francisco Tape Music Festival Pits Paul McCartney Against Luciano Berio, Edgard Varèse & Pierre Schaeffer

The San Francisco Tape Music Festival, being held Jan 30-Feb 1, will feature music from classical electronic composers, including Luciano Berio, Edgard Varèse, Pierre Schaeffer & Paul McCartney: A three night festival of new and classic audio art by 30 local and international composers diffused live over a pristine surround system consisting of 20+ speakers. Seated in the… Read More San Francisco Tape Music Festival Pits Paul McCartney Against Luciano Berio, Edgard Varèse & Pierre Schaeffer

Telematic Drum Circle

Kyle McDonald captured this video of a hack of Byeong Sam Jeon’s telematic drum circle: I got a little bored with re-aligning switches for the pneumatics and resetting various modules, so I dug through Byeong Sam’s code. Since it was just 16 serial ports, each at 9600 baud receiving characters ‘1’ through ‘9’ for velocity, I wrote… Read More Telematic Drum Circle