electroacoustic music

This is the fourth in Matt Cook’s series of Drawing Events from 2003.

“I am exploring sound, movement and image by inverting traditional ideas of composition – the score is created by the music, the dance is a product of the composition,” explains Cook. “All sounds are created by the drawing action, a mark sends a message to the computer, which plays a sample.”

Excepts from a modern dance performance that was part of the Danish Dance Theatre installation Labyrint by Tim Rushton, in Kaleidoskop K2, Copenhagen 2008.

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Infrared Tracking and Interactive Video Projection:
Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan

Choreography:
Tina Tarpgaard

Music performed by Athelas Sinfonietta

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 process in Photoshop, creating 150 abstract images which resemble soundwaves by using his photographs of resonant architectural spaces as source material.

These images were then animated and set to a soundtrack of manipulated field recordings of urban construction and waves on a lakefront along with synthesizer melodies and drones.
Reductive Waves premiered at Soundwalk 2008, East Village Arts District, Long Beach, California, 20 September 2008.

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 are submitted to different modification processes, building a real time continuity between the swimming of the carp fish and the levels of distortion- which can vary from an intense reverberation to a simulation of hearing underwater.

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 Studios.mp3
• Intro to the Moog.mp3
• Oscillator Waveshapes.mp3
• Oscillator Pitch Control.mp3
• White Noise.mp3
• Keyboard Control.mp3
• Subaudio Oscillator Control.mp3
• Combination Tones.mp3
• Filters.mp3
• Filtered Noise.mp3
• Filtered Music.mp3
• Filter Control.mp3
• Amplitude Control.mp3
• Amplitude Envelopes.mp3
• Timbre Envelopes.mp3
• Amp/Timbre Envelopes.mp3
• Envelope Follower.mp3
• Sequencer.mp3
• Conclusion.mp3