May, 2007 archive

Kansas City Kansas Community College, Lewis University and the Conservatory of Music and Dance-University of Missouri at Kansas City have announced a call for scores for the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, to be held October 11-13, 2007 at Kansas City Kansas Community College.
Each concert will feature an 8.1 speaker diffusion system. Any composer regardless of [...]

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At the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft. Surface turns a tabletop into a dynamic surface that provides interaction with all forms of digital content through gestures, touch and physical objects.
While no musical [...]

We’ve got another helping of great free electronic music for you today, courtesy of Part2, an independent record label based in Cambridge, UK.
part2 is a new label, launched in March 2007. The label features ambient, abstract and hard to define electronic music. While currently a net-label, part2 plans to offer cds and other media soon.
Current [...]

 

 Ian Stewart - Driftwood [7:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

If you’ve seen images of Monolake performing, you may have wondered about the unique instrument he uses, the Monodeck II:
In this video, Monolake jams with the Monodeck II:

Monolake, aka Robert Henke, uses a custom MIDI controller, along with Max, to control Ableton Live. He calls the Monodeck II “an industrial grade prototype.”
Here’s Henke’s story of [...]

Andrew Hasenpflug sent word about a new music composition contest, the Kunstgegen Foundation 2007 Music for Modern Dance Performance Competition.
Here are the details:
The Kunstgegen Foundation 2007 Music for Modern Dance Performance Competition will go to the work that most exemplifies the qualities of interest, emotion, intellect, and compatibility with modern dance choreography. The winning [...]

Toontrack Music has announced the Claustrophobic and Twisted Kit EZX expansions for EZdrummer.
Descriptions:
The Claustrophobic EZX
The Claustrophobic EZX marks a new step for Toontrack in driving the development of percussive samples. The audio team at Toontrack has utilized drumhead selection, room and microphone configurations to fuse the qualities of a high end drum recording and the [...]

VertexDSP has released a product update of MultiInspector.
The update includes a new high-resolution mode for the low-frequency bands. There is a context menu at the top of the GUI to select between the new HiRes Mode and the old Eco Mode. The mode selection is shared across all instances.

Enhancements:

Performance improvements
Switching signals via solo/mute now displays [...]

Wallander Instruments has introduced the WI Visual Instruments series - collections of virtual instruments that combine advanced behavioral modeling with extensive amounts of sound data extracted from acoustic measurements and recordings of real instruments. The first release is a brass collection - Brass1.
Description:
Distinguishable for the WIVI instruments are their extreme realism and expressive capabilities. Even [...]

 

 Wallender Brass Demo [0:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Apple today launched iTunes Plus, offering DRM-free music tracks with 256 kbps AAC encoding, for audio quality almost as good as the original recordings, for just $1.29 per song.
iTunes Plus is launching with EMI’s digital catalog of recordings, including singles and albums from Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Pink Floyd, [...]