electroacoustic music

Kyle Evans created this electronically modified digeridoo.

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Berna Vintage Electronic Studio – a Mac OS X software recreation of the classical electronic music studio – is now available for 10.69€ as a digital download. A demo version is available.

If you’ve used Berna, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…

Dreamscapes, for shofar, rainstick, mbira, Peruvia ocarina, didgeridoo and computer-generated sounds.

Composed & Performed by Herbert Deutsch. Deutsch is an American composer and professor emeritus of electronic music and composition at Hofstra University. Read more…

Yeah, yeah – here’s that “talking piano” video that’s been bouncing around the Internet for a week.

I didn’t feature it here, because I thought Conlon Nancarrow was doing a lot more interesting things, and more musical things, with player piano sequencing back in the 1940s.

And, if you’re going to make a talking instrument, in my book – it’s either got to make music, or it’s got to say “Exterminate!”

But others are obviously seeing potential in this. Or that je ne sais quoi that makes an Internet meme.

Anyway, this video captures a”speaking piano” reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009.

Composer Peter Ablinger basically pixelated sound, at a resolution appropriate to the range of the piano, and used the pixelations as “notes” to sequence and reproduce a lo-fi version of the original sound. Read more…