Tag: experimental electronic music

Music That You Can Tweet About (140-Character Twitter Music Challenge)

Jacob Joaquin is exploring the idea of composing for Twitter. Can you make music within the constraints of 140 characters? Here’s Joaquin’s SuperCollider Bohlen-Pierce Tweet – above as audio, and below as text: fork{loop{play{f=_*3.pow(17.rand/13);e=EnvGen.ar(Env.perc,1,0.3,0,1,2); PMOsc.ar(f.([438,442]),f.(880),f.(e))*e};[1/6,1/3].choose.wait}} That only weighs in at 135 characters – imagine what you could do with another 5 characters! Microtonal tuning courtesy… Read More Music That You Can Tweet About (140-Character Twitter Music Challenge)

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Microscopic Opera Performed By Tiny Worms (Experimental Electronic Music)

Matthijs Munnik’s Microscopic Opera is an abstract opera, performed by the micro-organism C. elegans – a tiny worm of less than a mm in length, and the workhorse for genomics research. Here’s what Munnik has to say about the work: The completely worms are monitored by scientist from their first cell division to their death… Read More Microscopic Opera Performed By Tiny Worms (Experimental Electronic Music)

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Kinect Controlled Synthesis

We’ve been skeptical about the value of the Microsoft Kinect as a music platform, because of latency and resolution limitations. Here’s a Kinect music experiment, though, that takes advantage of the Kinect’s strengths, Tension – an interactive spacial sound system. Here’s the project summary: A brief video showing Tension. An interactive spatial sound installation for… Read More Kinect Controlled Synthesis

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