Entries from Kelake tagged with 'Music and Sound'
Xavier Vochelle's Audio CV
I am really digging Le cv audio de Xavier Vochelle....
Open Source DIY MP3 player
Wow, the Sakura open source MP3 player kit opens up all kinds of possibilities for installation projects. For around $30 in parts and a good amount of patience, you can have a completely open source and hackable mp3 player...
The Freesound Project
"The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to...
Ten Questions for a Listener
"In the context of Acousmatic Music, composers often fail to consider the social background or imagery of the sounds they employ. The dominant tradition of musical abstraction, in fact, encourages the destruction of social referentiality altogether. Through exercises such as...
The Japanese Sound Culture
Interesting notes from an article written by Tadahiko Imada. "The decision of whether some sounds are regarded as music or not rests with the cultural background of the listener. In other words, cultures do not share the same methods of...
Pioneers of Electronic Music: The Barrons
Amazing sounds coming from husband-and-wife electronic music pioneering team of Louis and Bebe Barron. The clips from Forbidden Planet on the NPR site are fantastic. "The 1956 sci-fi thriller Forbidden Planet was the first major motion picture to feature an...
Hearing more
"I have also learned more about the role of the brain in hearing. Because of my increased interest in sound, I actually seem to be "hearing more". Without telling me, my brain has been automatically filtering out certain sounds. How...
The Sound of Personality
Just a study which indicates little but always makes for interesting reading. "People who enjoy blues, jazz, classical and folk are more likely to be creative, open to new experiences and enjoy abstract ideas. They often lean politically to the...
Instant City
"Instant City is a music building game table. one or more players at a table can create architecture using semi-transparent building blocks and in the process make different modular compositions audible. Every performance is unique because the sequence, timing and...
Giant Steps
Wonderful visual explanation of the structure of John Coltrane's 'Giant Steps' - a ditone and quadratone progression....
Egg Drum Machine
Contact mics hooked up to eggs with an antique Mac LC with custom circuitry and software doing most of the work while the eggs sit around doing nothing but resonating. "a distributed network of precarious egg-tapping robots. each unit, individually...
Universal Whistling Machine
"Canadian artists Marc Böhlen and J.T. Rinker have created UWM, the Universal Whistling Machine. The artists, interested in whistling as an ancient form of communication, built UWM as an experiment in linguistics. As someone whistles into the machine, it records...
Scanjam
"Scanjam is a music performance system consisting of two scanners and a computer. We took advantage of the time-based nature of the scan head and mapped each scanner to one bar of music. The music is composed in two bar...
Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
"I, who repudiate the title of Maestro as a stigma of mediocrity and ignorance, hereby confirm my enthusiastic adhesion to Futurism, offering to the young, the bold and the reckless these my irrevocable conclusions: To convince young composers to desert...
Background Music No. 123
The sweet and supple sounds of S. S. Kresge Company. Found via Coudal, this is too good to pass up. I'll be downloading, enjoying, and remixing these sounds for some time. Listening to this makes you want to dance in...
Kitundu, Sound Artist
"Kitundu is a, sound/visual artist, graphic designer, composer and instrument builder. He uses an interdisciplinary approach to develop compositions-installations-instruments that blur the boundaries between media. He has constructed elemental turntables that rely on wood, water, fire and earthquakes for their...
Bootleg culture
Pete Rojas' article provide a good summary of the "mash-up" or bootleg culture or remixing or whatever the hip term is now. Can't really say I agree when he talks about how easy it is now to create music except...
Yamaha's digital EZ trumpet
Courtesy of Engadget comes this bit of news, "Yamaha has come out with an electronic trumpet that lets you avoid having to do the intense cheekwork yourself, like all that buzzing and blowing that the analogue version demands. Instead, you...
The lost art of meaningful mixtapes
Mixtapes and playlists are an essential part of a balanced music lifestyle. I've always believed that music is a contextual experience, and the slow, careful creation of a compilation can reveal deep relationships between songs. The relationships can be shallow,...
Steven Poole on sound art
"The history of recorded music is a history of creating virtual spaces. Classical CD recording, for example, places you in a prime stalls seat in a nonexistent concert hall, by virtue of the way the instrumental sections are distributed in...
The Conet Project
Found via Veer, "This massive collection of recordings of so-called 'shortwave numbers stations' is at once, both eerily beautiful and poignantly cryptic." You have to listen to these very specific genre of sound creation. Who knew this whole other world...
SimpleTEXT
"SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops. SimpleTEXT focuses on dynamic input from participants as essential to the overall output. The performance creates a...
AudioBored & AudioBored Machine
"AudioBored is a public online audio messaging board that allows for anyone to call in, record a message, and post it to the server. Simply dial the free 1-800 number from the website and record your note. Visitors to the...
ID3v2 spec made easy
ID3v2 is a new tagging system that lets you put enriching and relevant information about your audio files within them. In more down to earth terms, ID3v2 is a chunk of data prepended to the binary audio data. Each ID3v2...
Google Audio Search
Audio content on the internet is in chaos. To reign in the chaos, and to capitalize on internet audio file assets, Google will launch an audio search engine or audio file search tool by 2006, but probably sooner. The Four...
Sound Installation Art Systems
I have been looking for a software or development environment for music/sound installation art. In Hsinchu I feel a little isolated without any interactive artists to bring me up to speed. No places for training either. Via MacIntouch I was...
The Art of Noise
"Ancient life was all silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. For many centuries life went by in silence, or at most...
Composing the now
'Composing the now' - notes for a lecture on engagement with sonic time through sensors, electronica, loudspeakers and ears. "There is an opinion that the absence of direct manual intervention creates machine music with a quality more closely related or...
Walking through sound (David Toop)
From Vodafone’s receiver mag - Vodafone’s cool think tank, on Art, Music, Communication, Interaction and technology - comes an article by David Toop ( http://www.davidtoop.com/) in which he focuses on wireless technologies and the idea of peripatetic music. Cole sees...
A sophisticated sense.
Sound is one of the most sophisticated senses we have since we regularly experiment and create innovative displays specifically for our ears. (I don't believe that you can base this argument on the fact that since we create great work...
Audio Interfaces for Online Environments
This article is an excerpt from a longer paper I recently wrote. "Even though we have two primary senses, hearing and visual, most current interfaces today are primarily visual. As vision and hearing are fundamentally different, there are some distinct...
Audio Interfaces for Online Environments
This was a presentation I gave at Chiao Tung University on one of research interests. Here is an excerpt: "Sound is one of our most sophisticated senses, from the time we are babies our entire world is filled with sounds...
Song and Wind
I spent a great deal of my initial college years unlearning years of improper breathing activity. We would spend hours analysing, studying, and practicing this most fundamental human activities. While I am sure that I have reverted to my evil...
Movin' to a jazz thing
About 6 months ago I thought it would be healthy if I had a "real" outlet to express my creativity. I had been getting bogged down with routine challenges and showing some signs of burn out. This "real" outlet would...
Automated music critic
Looking for a second opinion on my previous recommendation of The Bad Plus? Look no further than the Automated Music Critic for a review of this band and of your favourites. Here is the review I got for The Bad...
The Bad Plus
You really must check these guys out. Their style certainly isn't timeless but their inventiveness will leave a smile on your face. "The Bad Plus is comprised of bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King, three post-modern...
sampling, memory, and the semantic web
"free content fuels innovation" - Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas "I get asked what I think about sampling a lot, and I've always wanted to have a short term to describe the process. Stuff like "collective ownership", "systems of...
Auditory Interfaces
"How can sound feedback improve human-machine interaction? This essay aims to serve as a theoretical introduction to auditory interface design." Download PDF: Auditory Interfaces...
Dave Schroeder of Pilotvibe Talks About Sound Design for Interactive Multimedia
"When dealing with Web based media, audio can be a data hog and is traditionally known as a usability killer. On top of that, you can’t rely on every end user to have their speakers turned on. These are legitimate...
Learning from Sound in the Arts
"Discussions about multimedia design sometimes refer to 'the added value of sound'. Although it is true that sound can add important new information to a visual presentation, and strengthen the total experience, it should not be inferred that sound is...
Physics and Psychophysics of music
Lately I have been slowly regaining interest in studying music again. After high school I studied in conservatories, colleges, and universities for over eight years. I gave up my stagnant performing career aspirations five years ago but had always hoped...
Explicable
Wynton Marsalis's cousin, principal trumpet player for Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, beaten in case of racial profiling....
Memo
While the stylistic similarities are a bit of a stretch, listening to this music also brings up memories of my many unsuccessful attempts at playing Latin music. For trumpet players it is the most demanding of music and requires a...
Cuban music
Since buying the cd's Buena Vista Social Club and Orlando Cachaito Lopez's Cachaito. a day hasn't gone buy where I don't listen to them. I keep imagining myself dancing with some beautiful woman in a dark smoky club in Cuba...
Radio Free Tiny Pineapple is a great streaming mp3 radio station categorized as eclectic in iTunes. My only complaint is all the Tom Waits they play. Too much Tom waits makes a person either want to get stone cold drunk...
At home
I have had a wicked headache for two days now so I am staying home out of fluoresent light so I can recover and get some work done. Since all radio in Taiwan stinks I'll be checking out the following...
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