John Kannenberg’s Reductive Waves is a meditation on the visualization of sound, via contrasting natural and human-crafted environments.
It features two main visual elements, the first of which is non-manipulated video footage of light moving across his living room wall, shot during a summer sunrise. The second is a series of digital images created via a reductive [...]

Vivian Caccuri’s Submersed Songs is a sound installation that generates mp3 player remixes through the movements of four live fish. The animals’ movements and the proximity among them work as a parameter for mixing and spatializing the audience’s music tracks in real time.
This system constantly mashes-up two different songs recorded by different users. The two tracks [...]

Peter Tod Lewis, Director of the University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios from 1968-1980, created an audio introduction to the Moog synthesizer in 1979. 
The multi-part series provides a perspective from the past on the synthesizer and its role in classical electronic music studio. 
Here are links to each of the segments in the series:

Intro to the [...]

Unidentified Sound Objects has posted pictures that offer a sneak peak inside the Radio Italiana Phonology Studio, a pioneering Italian electronic music studio:
In 1955, the Radio Italiana (Rai) established the Studio di Fonologia Musicale at RAI Center in Corso Sempione 27, Milan (Italy). Physicist Dr. Alfredo Lietti builded the famous “nine oscillators”, the white noise [...]

Milkcrate is an interesting site/project, maintained by Sebastian Tomczak, that explores making music with minimal source materials:

Milkcrate is not a band or a particular group of people. Milkcrate adds a further set of constraints of space, time and materials to create music within.
The rules…

The objective of milkcrate is to write, record and produce as much [...]

 

 Singapura - uses only glass as source material [0:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Dawn Bells - uses only a blank sheet of paper as source material: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Of Daedalus, Part A - Empty, solo milkcrate: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Electroacoustic pioneer Donald Erb, a composer that helped promote the acceptance of electronic music, died Aug 12th at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He was 81.
Erb’s Reconnaissance, one of the first chamber works for live synthesizer and acoustic instruments, premiered in New York in 1967 with Robert Moog on synthesizer. A more recent work, [...]

A memorial service for electro-acoustic composer and author Allen Strange has been scheduled:
A Celebration of Life
In The Memory Of John Allen Strange
4:00 pm Saturday, September 13th 2008
Mexican Heritage Plaza
1700 Alum Rock Ave
San Jose, Ca 95116 map
The Strange family would like to invite you to a celebration of life in the memory of Allen Strange. We [...]

The New York Times today has an excellent article that looks at computer music pioneer Paul Lansky.
Lansky is one of the pioneers of computer music, through both early works of computer music and the development of computer music languages and applications.
As he reaches a time in his career when a lot of people would be [...]