EAM collects tracks from the last 15 years or so by electro-acoustic pioneer Barry Schrader. Most of the work that Schrader presents here is entirely electronic. One piece, Dance from the Outside, combines electronic timbres with music concrete sound manipulation. Schrader does not discuss his techniques or tools, suggesting that the tracks should speak for… Read More Barry Schrader – EAM
Electro-acoustic music is a term used to describe a broad range of modern classical electronic music. It often explores the interaction of natural and electronically generated sounds and effects. The term electro-acoustic refers to a process that happens in any microphone or loudspeaker – sound is transformed into electrical signals, and then transformed from electrical… Read More Electro-Acoustic Music
International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music – This site is the home of several databases of information about the production, research and teaching of electroacoustic music. Their are two databases. The first covers electronic music studios. The second covers the works that have been produced in these studios. You can search the databases online, or browse… Read More International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music
For a lot of electronic music fans, the pioneers of electronic music would be Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, or Vangelis. For younger fans, they might be Derrick May, Juan Atkins, or Jesse Saunders. This CD really goes “back in the days” to the days when electronic music was in its first heyday in the… Read More Various – Pioneers of Electronic Music
The Electronic Music Defense & Education Fund is a response to people that think the war on drugs should also be a war on electronic music. The goals of this group are to raise and provide funds for legal assistance to people in the electronic dance music industry who are targeted by law enforcement as… Read More EMDEF
Out of MIT comes a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. The Audiopad is being developed by a pair of MIT grad students, James Patten and Ben Recht. It is an application of earlier work they’ve done on… Read More Audiopad – An Experimental Electronic Music Interface
