Somewhat OT: This horribly dated “educational” video reveals the shocking fact that “female deviation in normal sexual behavior greatly exceeds the male!”
It also kicks off with some ultra-cheesy old-school electronic music. If you know anything about this series or the music, let me know in the comments!
Electronic music pioneer Herb Deutsch has released a new retrospective CD, From Moog To Mac, that includes historical gems such as Jazz Images, the first piece of music ever composed using a Moog synthesizer and The Abominatron, a tape recording from August, 1964 in which Bob Moog talks and plays as he describes his [...]
The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create ‘new kinds of sounds’. Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake’s Seven and Hitchhiker’s Guide To The [...]
Diana Young, right, a Ph.D. candidate in the Hyperinstruments Group of the MIT Media Lab has developed the Hyperbow, a new electronic sensing system to measure minute changes in the position, acceleration and strain of a violin bow.
The system can be used to evaluate different bowing techniques and may expand the expressive possibilities of the [...]
The Music of Jeff Harrington
Composer, programmer and visual artist Jeff Harrington has a large variety of classical electronic and instrumental music available as free MP3s from his blog.
According to Harrington, his music is “tonal and intensely contrapuntal, inspired by New Orleans and classical music traditions.”
He has several free downloadable albums of his electronic works. Lachrimae Crystallinum (MP3) is “a [...]
SCREAM (The Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music) plans to celebrate its 20th anniversary with a concert of works by the original members of SCREAM.
The concert will include the world premieres of Barry Schrader’s “Wu Xing: Cycle of Destruction” (solo electronic version) and Rodney Oakes’ “Variations on the Krakow Fanfare”. Also on the program are [...]
The complete audio and liner notes from the rare 1979 album First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival is available online at a new site, Vintage Computer Music.
The site includes MP3s of every track, which can be downloaded or played online.
The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978. The next year, Creative Computing magazine [...]
The Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music (SCREAM) and NewTown Pasadena are presenting a free encore performance of a program of new works for video with electro-acoustic music scores at the Disney Hall at the California Institute of the Arts on January 8th.
The international program will include works by Kristine Burns (USA), Richard Carbonell (Spain), [...]
MaconSumerlin is a new site that celebrates the work of Dr. Macon Sumerlin, a music educator and composer that combined electronic music elements with choral composition.
The site features several free MP3 downloads of his classical electronic music, including Goose Bumps.
Barry Shrader Beyond
Electroacoustic pioneer Barry Schrader has released his latest CD, Beyond, on Innova.
This album features four recent electro-acoustic music works: First Spring, Beyond, Duke’s Tune (the first and only musical work based on a melody composed by a pig), and all three movements of Death: Before Death, Into Death, and After Death.
Regarding the music on this [...]
Switched On: Early Electronic Oddities, a 90-minute live radio show featuring Hypnotique, the UK’s leading cabaret thereminist/talk-show hostess, is now available online as streaming audio.
The show features recordings of early electronic instruments from 1860 to 1975, including the Trautonium, the RCA synthesizer, the Italian futurists, the electro-theremin, and the Radiophonic Workshop. It also includes live [...]
Electro-acoustic music pioneer Barry Schrader’s works for tape, dance, film, video, mixed media, live/electro-acoustic music combinations, and real-time computer performance have been presented throughout the world. Schrader is the founder and first president of SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States). He is also the author of the book Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music.
Schrader [...]
The Cornell Department of Music is hosting “The State of the Art: Perspectives on Digital Music in the 21st Century” - a major series oflectures and performances scheduled for September 10-18, 2004, on the Cornell University campus.
The events will feature guest speakers, composers, and performers from the Eastman School of Music, Hamilton College, IRCAM, Princeton [...]
Innova Recordings is a record label that features jazz, new classical, experimental and electronic music. The label features many interesting artists and champions new music.
Innova is geared towards work that is unlikely to find a home in the mainstream record industry. Innova has no profit motive. Artists take on the financial risk of releasing their [...]
Electronic Music Interactive
Electronic Music Interactive is a multimedia primer for electronic music. Developed by the New Media Center at the University of Oregon, the Shockwave/Flash site provides sounds, diagrams and animations that explain the elements of electronic music.
The site gives vistors an overview of the subject, and demonstrates concepts like the relationship between the shapes of waves [...]




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