Music: a Mathematical Offering
Music: a Mathematical Offering by Dave Benson A good friend of mine recently sent me a link to “Music: a Mathematical Offering” by Dave Benson. I’ve only briefly skimmed the text. However, I can...
View ArticleEdgard Varêse and Le Corbusier – Poême électronique
Posted to YouTube by ZimmerFrei First presented at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair with 425 speakers placed throughout the famous Philips pavilion, the placement of the speakers and design of the...
View ArticleFuture Crew – Second Reality
Uploaded to YouTube by stormblast0891. The PC demo “Second Reality” by Future Crew, one of the most well-known demos ever. 1st place at Assembly 1993. Though today’s tech can easily render similar...
View ArticleCsound for Newbies
I want to share with you a promising new site called Csound for Newbies. “The purpose of this site is to help the feckless, the despondent, the hopeless and the overwhelmed musician, programmer,...
View ArticleChucK => Audio Programming Language
Yesterday, I finally had the opportunity to check ChucK out. Early exit polls suggest that ChucK is awesome!! What is ChucK? ChucK is a new (and developing) audio programming language for real-time...
View ArticleOLPC donates 8.5+ Gigs of Samples
The OLPC has donated 8.5+ gigs of samples to the children of the world, and us. This library is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. So feel free to start remixing. From the...
View ArticleCsound Journal Issue 8
The 8th issue of the Csound Journal is hot off the press. Letters from the Editors by James Hearon and Steven Yi Realtime Csound in Windows: A Personal Journey by Art Hunkins Live Flute Synthesis with...
View ArticleNYCR explores the sound of electricity
Curious minds @ NYC Resistor experiment with audio synthesis from a simple bike wheel alternator Via Make.
View ArticleOrganizing Sounds: Musique Concrete, Part I
I. Musique Concrete and the emergence of electronic music Musique Concrete is nothing new. It was pioneered by Pierre Schaeffer and his team in the early 1940’s at the Studio d’Essai de...
View ArticleSampler Concrete
Photo by Carbon Arc. Licensed under Creative Commons. First, I want to welcome aboard Jean-Luc Sinclair. As part of his NYU Software Synthesis class, he has graciously decided to share the articles he...
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