Tag: electronic music
-
Prehistoric Ocarinas-Ancient Flints Contain Musical Scales
A few years back, I posted the “I Found a… Pipe” blogpost – an attempt to initiate a series of found object accounts; exploring the dynamics of curiosity, the chance encounters, the chains of association, the pratfalls and prat-uplifts that may accompany such discoveries. One of the persistent themes is the idea that electronic-equivalents of sound-making processes…
-
Composition For Solo Piano With 40 Channel 1 Bit Electronics
New Amsterdam Records releases are special and Surface Image, the album-length composition for solo piano with 40-channel 1-bit electronics, composed by Tristan Perich and performed by pianist Vicky Chow is no exception. “Surface Image is a stunning marriage of Perich’s inspired electronic aesthetic and Chow’s nuanced yet fiercely virtuosic playing. The line between electric and…
-
Electronic Opera Uses Physical Spaces To Connect Narrative With Sound
Back in 2005, composer Lewis Spratlan and I began work on an opera inspired by Louis Kahn. Kahn, who excelled in music and once considered becoming a composer, was especially cognizant of how sound works in a physical space. “Space has tonality,” he often said. Kallick, a professor of music at Amherst College, made recordings…
-
Armstrong’s Heartbeat As Merged Artwork Beamed To Moon
Los Angeles, CA, – Richard Clar using an earth-moon-earth (EME), or moon bounce as it is also called, radioed two very special signals off the surface of the moon where their return was received at Dwingeloo Radio Observatory in the Netherlands. Clar’s extraordinary two-part project, Giant Step and Lune sur la Lune, paid tribute respectively to…
-
ELEKTRO MOSKVA- Intriguing Documentary About Soviet Music Synthesizers
I spent most of yesterday afternoon watching and taking notes from the 86 minute documentary ELEKTRO MOSKVA. This film is so rich and interesting that I found myself sitting in reflection every time I jotted down another intriguing story element…..and believe me there were lots. The film’s official website describes itself like this: “ELEKTRO MOSKVA…
-
PUSH TURN MOVE Book Focuses On Interface Design In Electronic Music
A must have book for electronic musicians and fans of synthesizers and electronic instruments.
-
Voice Industrie New Album Emerged From Accidents And Bending Rules
For as long as I can recall, I’ve wanted to write original music, never being a fan of jumping into a covers band and playing someone else’s music. I never understood why anyone would want to, apart from maybe doing a remake or remixing a song. I’ve done a few stints, and have friends currently…
-
Nigel Stanford AUTOMATICA 4K Trending Now
Nigel John Stanford Published on 14 Sep 2017 ► Album & 4k Video: http://NigelStanford.com/y/a-/Automatica ► Spotify: http://NigelStanford.com/y/Spotify Subscribe and like to see more Robot videos, as I release them for my album Automatica. Robots rock, they were fun to work with. My favorite is the robotic drummer. More work to be done, and maybe I…
-
A Quest To Lost Arts In Chicago To Build My First Hyve Touch Synthesizer
I started out creating sound experiments while in high school, circa 1980 with circuit bent hardware and a cheap Casio keyboard. I then entered the working world and forgot all about making music. Fast forward 30+ years, and the itch to make experimental music overtook me again, but now technology had changed drastically. I no…
-
Album By Yellow Salamand’r 4 Is More Than Soundscape
I really like this album, there’s some great soundscapes but also a sparseness and edge of tension at times. The production is excellent allowing sounds to evolve and grow. Fact: you will find a variety of recorded sounds that combine with layers of noise and drone elements and this results in the expected elements of experimental…
-
Toronto Composer Nick Storring sends listener on a journey with “Gardens”
Nick Storring — Gardens Open Your Eyes And Forget (16.21) (Come To My) Thicket (5.30) Unexpecting (3.52) Nothing Seems To Rhyme (7.25) Inside Every Man Lives the Seed of a Flower (13.21) Gardens was composed, performed, recorded and mixed spring 2011-autumn 2013. All instruments performed by Nick Storring. The work was designed as an informal…