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[ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY] [ALTERNATIVEATARI MIDI SOFT] [AMORPHIC ROBOTS] [ALTERNATIVEMUSIC MAGAZINE] [BODYSYNTH] [C-37 THEORY] [AlvinCURRAN] [ COMPUTER MUSIC PROGRAMS ] [DENMARK'S INTUITIVEMUSIC CONFERENCE] [EGG-SHAPED SPEAKERS] [GRAPHICCOMPOSER] [I- CUBE] [LOGOS] [MALTEDMEDIA][MIDI-PLANETARIUM] [MOOG] [MUSICA] [NEWALVION ARTISTS] [NEAR NEWSLETTER] [HarryPARTCH][QAMUTIIK ] [Klaus RUNZE] [SCALES] [SKRAEP] [SONIC TENTS][Laurie SPIEGEL] [STEIM] [TEMPERAMENT] [TOPOPHONIEN][TRAUTONIUM] [Michel WAISVISZ] [Ward WEIS][WORLD TUNE] [ZKM]
ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY (USA)
Concerning acoustic ecology, you can visit the website of WorldSoundscape Project: http://interact.noregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAEHomePage.Barry Truax has released basic information on ecological aspectsof urban and industrial soundscapes (http://www.sfu.ca/~truax)
ALTERNATIVE ATARI MIDI SOFT
Long before iMacs and Pentiums appear on stage, computer-basedmusicians work on MIDI-port integrated Atari computers and theirapplications for music.Tim Conrardy (http://tamw.atari-users.net)has listed now on Tim's Atari MIDI World homepage thebest MIDI-applications available for Atari. Especially, we encouragehis effort to arrange the downloads of alternate MIDI-programsfor Atari ("M", Realtime, Tiger Cub, Tunesmith , MIDIJOYetc.) for FREE.
Email group for Midi Atari-users: http://www.egroups.com/group/atari-midi.
AMORPHIC ROBOTS
Interactive and computer controlled human and abstract machinescome to life as hydraulically driven Super Dog Monkey and othermembers of the amorphic robot family: they execute their own uniquepersonality, and broaden the range and scope of the soundscape.Artistic director of the international team Amorphic Robots Works,is Chico MacMurtri. Visit The Amorphic Home Page:http://www.AmorphicRobotWorks.org.
ALTERNATIVE MUSIC MAGAZINE (USA)
You can find Amazing Sounds' Alternative Music Magazinewith information and service about new artists, activities,projects, styles, companies at: http://www.amazings.com/whatsallthis.html.
BODYSYNTH (NL / USA)
Pamela Z, alternative composer / performer and audioartist
(San Francisco), creates layered works combining operaticbel canto
and experimental extended vocal techniques with a batteryof digital
delays, found percussion objects, and sampled soundstriggered
with a MIDI controller called the BodySynth (EdSeveringhaus,NL)
which translates data from electrode sensorsworn on your skin
to generate MIDI. The URL of PAMELA Z is:
C-37 THEORY (Austria)
What makes a full violin? Philip Neuner and Andreas Sailerbuilt the mega HiFi loudspeakers C-37. They applied theC-37 theory of Dieter Ennemoser, violinmaker and audio researcher:http://www. ennemoser.com.Ennemoser has invented carbon at 37° Celsius (C37) as thedecisive element of sound quality. For further exploration onthe C-37 theory : http://www.C37sound.com.
CURRAN Alvin (Italy)
Homepage of Alvin CURRAN, the American composer of large-scaleenvironmental works on lakes and public spaces: http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MUS/ACURRAN/Curran.homepage.html. Travelling between the Golden Gate and the Tiber river, the musical"CRISTO" is recently back home: Roma, his adopted homesince he co-founded there the radical collective for making freemusic: Musica Elettronica Viva (1966). Curran's performancestoday embrace all the contradictions (composed / improvised, tonal/ atonal,maximal / minimal, indoors / outdoors etc.) in a serenedialectical encounter of classical instruments, natural tapes,synthesizers and sound samplers, computer programs, ship horns,accordion and chorus.
COMPUTER MUSIC PROGRAMS
There are annotated lists of actual computer music programswith
ftp sites. Tom Erbe (CalArts School of Music) has made thecomputer
music programs list for Macintosh (click> http://shoko.calarts.edu./~tre/CompMusMac)for
his sound design class. Click on following links for otheroperating
systems:
Windows - CompMusPC.
Windows - Pcmusic.
Linux - http://www.zzounds.com/edu--linuxsoftware
DENMARK'S INTUITIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE
Homepage of Danish composer and improvisor Carl BERGSTROEM-NIELSEN,involved in freely improvising and experimental open music: http://intuitivemusic.dk . Since 1995, DENMARK'S INTUITIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE is a yearly meetingfor improvisors, composers and other intuitive artists. For 2009 look at the P-ART HOT page. (< click).
EGG-SHAPED SPEAKERS (B)
Koen VAESSEN (Antwerp) is the sound designer of a limited editionof the high-end loudspeaker AQUARIUS that combines fibre technologywith the newest acoustical dampening compound and the exclusivedesigned ovoid shape. Surf to: http://www.vaessen.com.
GRAPHIC COMPOSER (D)
GraphicComposer, the graphic composer tool for musicians,is developed by Jürgen LANGE (Studio für elektronischenMusik, Hochschule für Musik, Dresden). You can download GraphicComposer for free: www.hfmdd.de/studio_em.
I- CUBE (USA)
The I-CUBE System is an alternative MIDI-transducercontaining different sensors (illumination, body heat, proximity,pressure etc.). I-CUBE converts meaningful MIDI-data out of physicalperception.Infusion's TOUCHGLOVE has a contact-pressuresensor in each finger of the glove. Further information abouthardware and applications is available on : http://www.infusionsystems.com
IRCAM (F)
Visit the innovative "house" of new music in Paris:http://www.ircam.fr
KLANGART (D)
Every two years we participate in the international KlangArtKongress and Festival (Osnabrück ,Germany). KLANGARTwill be organized in June 2001. Dedicated inventors, companies,composers, improvisors, multimedia artists and music teachersare related to innovation in the wide field of new technology.They can consult the webpage of Bernd ENDERS, head of KlangARTsactivities, at: http://www.musik.uni-osnabrueck.de/lehrende/enders.
LOGOS (B)
LOGOS DUO (Godfried-Willem RAES & Moniek DARGE, Ghent,B)is related to alternative non-commercial instruments (Pneumaphoneetc.) and to ground breaking concepts & performances (computerizedcomposing, virtualizing sound & space etc.). You canfind more information about the LOGOS FOUNDATION with concerts,performances, articles etc on: http://www.logosfoundation.org.
MALTEDMEDIA (USA)
Maltedmedia is the brainchild of Dennis Bathory-Kitszand represents the radioprogram Kalvos & Damian's New MusicBazaar and the K&D Newsletter (http://kalvos.org).Maltedmedia is an artist-centered collective for word, sound,and sight, and is associated with musicians and artists acrossthe world.
MIDI-PLANETARIUM (D)
Wolfgang Martin STROH (Research Project of the University ofOldenburg, Germany) has built a computer based program MIDI-PLANETARIUMto convert actual constellations of planets into frequences,rhythms and patterns you can make audible.
With his MIDI-planetarium (Atari, PC) W. STROH delivers a programto produce a cosmic simulation of the planet sounds. Visit thehomepage: http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/musik/planet/midipl.html.
MOOG
Bob MOOG (USA) is an legendary innovator in the fieldof electronic music. Moog conducts his company BIG BRIAR and releasesunusual electronic music instruments like the ETHERWAVE THEREMIN:http://www.nashville.net/~theremin.His Big BRIAR Performance Synthesizer is the updated version ofthe monophonic Mini-Moog synthesizer.
MUSICA (Austria)
Austrian homepage MUSICA delivers very useful tools / information:music shareware, new music and computer, artists, bands, actualityetc. : http://www.musica.at.
NEW ALVION ARTISTS (USA)
Valide information about Alvin Curran, Margaret Leng Tan andother alternative composers / artists in: http://www.newalbion.com/artists/.
NEAR NEWSLETTER
The Dutch Center for electro-acousticresearch
(NEAR) brings an international newsletter on the webwith hot news
about actual activities, releases and projects inthe world of
contemporary arts and music research:
Harry PARTCH (USA)
I recommand to visit the amazing survey of Corporeal Meadowsabout microtonalist Harry PARTCH: http://www.corporeal.com.
PAINTBRUSHFIRE
Naomi Rifkin (Brush Fire Painting Workshops) challenge you to explore new places that bring you closer to what is truly yours in a non-judgmental, non-competitive studio full of everything you need for embodied creativity. http://www.paintbrushfire.org
QAMUTIIK (UK)
Simon Wickham-Smith (England) has developed the most extended,actualized
and complete database about experimental music.
URL: http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/~qamutiik
Klaus RUNZE
Intermedia-Artist Klaus RUNZE (look at the P-ARTwebpages) has realized his own large and illustrated homepage: http://www.klaus-runze.com/ At the moment only in german. English version is coming soon.
SCALES
The Pitch Palette from Justonic Tuning (http://www.justonic.com) is asound engineering software that allows musicians to selected andcreate harmonic scales using MIDI-instruments and computer. Withthe touch of a button you enter the musical world of Indian raga,Japanese koto, Balinese gamelan and modern scales. You cantranspose and edit your tunings with "The World MusicMenu" software (available for PC & Mac).For microtonaIinformation I recommand to consult John STARRET'S "MicrotonalMusic Homepage": http://www-math.cudenver.duc/~jstarret.
SKRAEP (Denmark)
Enter the scene of improvisation in Scandinavia, The EuropeanImprovisation Orchestra, international links etc. in Skraep,music site of Christer Irgens - Mueller. Skraep is an experimentalmusic forum for composers, improvisators and performers all overthe world. URL: http://www.skraep.dk/.
SONIC TENTS (D)
Sonic Tents are listening islands: virtual sound scapesto interact with 3D- sound, space and time .
For more information about this audio project by Sabine SCHAEFER/Joachim KREBS, click here: http://swo.de/SabineJoachim/sonic1e.html.
Electronic musician Laurie SPIEGEL has developped theground breaking "Music Mouse", an intelligent and holistic"instrument" on computer for listening, performing,composing and improvising whitout classical skills. Spiegels homepageis : http://retiary.org/ls
STEIM (NL)
STEIM FOUNDATION (Amsterdam) is the international forum forthose who work in the electronic arts and the cyber culture. Steimis a international research and development centre for new instrumentsfor music and visual arts. Homepage of STEIM: http://www.steim.org/steim/
The standard tuning in the western world is the twelve-toneequal temperament, dividing the octave into twelve equal intervalof semitones. About Temperaments, the homepage of D. Devie isinformative: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1997/tempdef.htm.
"The Spiritual Location of Sound - an example for theintegration of sound movement as further musical parameter incomposition" is written and developped by Sabine SCHAEFER(D), innovative music artist of the TopoPhonien- project.Homepage: http://www.topophonien.de.
Dieter DOEPFER has collaboratedwith OskarSALA (< click) to re-invent the trautonium,digital version. For further information, go to: http://www.doepfer.de.
Many years ago,Waisvisz, conductor of STEIM (NL), has released his legendary crackle box (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraakdoos) and other innovative projects, and is the virtual musician of with "The Hands" . http://www.crackle.org/ Michel Waisvisz died 2008.
Visit the homepage of Ward WEIS, artist of innovativesoundscape projects at: http://home.worldonline/~wward.
WORLD TUNE
Fascinated by Keplers "Harmonice Mundi" , WORLD TUNEis a sound machine which constantly produces sounds by "generators"from all over theworld. World Tune is an acoustic barometer whichtransforms local events to a worldwide sound. URL: http://www.worldtune.com/2000/.Look at the P-ART HOT page.
The Audio Collection at the Center for Arts and MediaTechnology (= Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie- Media Library)in Karlsruhe (D)provides akaleidoscop survey of the most important aspects and developmentsin the field of contemporary music, with a particular emphasison electro-acoustic music. URL: http://www.zkm.de.
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