Free Music Friday: Reader Stig Fostervold let us know about a new release by kr(Æ)ft, We can’t always fight nature, John:
kr(Æ)ft is an electronic act from the north of Norway, with a taste for jazz, ambient and glitch.
If you imagine a CD filled with electro-remixes of jazz-tunes, skipped across the asphalt on a summer-morning, you’re on the right track.
You can preview the album below:
Intermorphic has introduced Noatikl 2, the latest version of their desktop generative music software for Mac & Windows.
It’s currently available, in beta stage. Here’s what’s new…..
Sunday Synth Jam: Bruno Ender Lee put together this extended space music video, which collects six live synth jams into a ‘video album’, Crystal Spaceship.
Part 1: Crystal Spaceship (includes: “Ice Crystals”, “Spaceship” & “Midnight”)
Part 2: Astral Clockwork (includes: “Spaceship_2″, “Astral Clockwork” & “Astral Odyssey”)
Composed, arranged & produced by Bruno Ender Lee; 2012 Velvet Voyage Productions
via synthypnosis
Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a meditative new age synth jam, Alba Ecstasy‘s Memories of a Blue Morning.
Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Chris Stack, aka experimentalsynth, improvises over a dark ambient drone backing.
For the backing, Stack used the Make Noise René Cartesian Sequencer, Maths and a variety of Moog synths.
In celebration of Arbor Day on April 27th 2012, a group of artists have joined together to create an album to support the National Arbor Day Foundation.
The artists, including John Koch-Northrup, Ian Boddy, John Sherwood, Joe McMahon, HG Fortune, Inner Dreamer, Shane King, Groupthink, Mystified, Shane Morris, Jack Hertz and Crystal Dreams have donated their music to support the ‘Sound For Good’ project.
The compilation, Take To The Trees, is available for download with a donation of $1 or more. 100% of your donation goes to the National Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees.
Archifon is a big interactive virtual musical instrument, created by The Macula Project, originally made for the Olomouc Baroque de-baptized chapel.
Architectural elements within the chapel are turned into laser-controlled triggers by mapping a virtual surface to the chapel’s interior.
Up to ten visitors at a time can interact with the Archifon through the laser pointers. By pointing on any of more than 100 elements different audiovisual actions are initiated.
The Macula Project, based out of the Czech Republic, Prague, explores the relationship between image, sound and viewer.
“The goal is to achieve perfect symbiosis and satisfy audio-visual nihilism,” according to The Macula Project. “Everything becomes an illusion.”
Let us know what you think of this project – and whether it satisfies your need for audio-visual nihilism!
via wired
This music video is intended an audiovisual exploration of the idea of the Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity:
Based on the theory/prediction of the Technological Singularity, introduced by minds like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, the entire universe may someday be comprised of nanobots that are controlled by a singular computer-mind of the same magnitude. If this happened, then perhaps what you are about to see is similar to the way planets and other celestial bodies may behave sometime far into the future. Fractal technology brought to life…
Music by Surface 10, visuals by Jeremie Brunet.
Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a mellow synth jam, via Martin Peters (attorks), Vernal Season.
Here’s what he has to say about it:
The video begins with two 8-step sequences: one sequence on row 2 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 which is driving the self-built Modular and one sequence on the Synthesizers.com Q960 which is driving the Rob Hordijk OSC HRM and the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO connected to the Blacet Miniwave.
The bass is performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1, the Mellotron strings sound is played on the Roland XP-80 and the Wurlitzer piano sound on the Waldorf Q Keyboard. Later on a 4 step sequence from row 1 of the MAQ16/3 driving the Creamware MiniMax ASB joins.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures Ambient Synthesis – a sound sculpture, created by Amanda Ghassaei, that responds to light to create a unique audiovisual interpretation of its environment.
Light sensors in the device pick up changes in its surroundings (the scenes from this video demonstrate the piece responding to sunsets and sunrises). This data is interpreted by a MaxMSP application to create abstract symmetrical patterns and a slowly evolving synthetic drone.