touched echo is an electroacoustic artwork that uses bone conduction to take people back in time:
The visitors of the Brühl’s Terrace (Dresden, Germany) are taken back in time to the night of the terrible air raid on 13th February 1945. In their role as a performer they put themselves into the place of the people [...]

Yuri Suzuki is an artist and musician interested in “revamping and giving new forms and meanings to the turntable, a device which very few of us still have in their house.
Music is become more and more digital and abstract, and Suzuki is interested in exploring the physical, tangible representation of sound.
The Prepared Turntable, above, is [...]

Ready to chill out for the weekend with a bit of ambient music?
Then check out Matthew Davidson’s gorgeous new release, A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty. It’s a collection of piano improvisations, recorded May 27th - June 11th 2008, between 8:20 and 8:50am each day.
Here’s what Davidson has to say about the album:
There is only [...]

 

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David Byrne has announced the opening of his electroacoustic installation Playing the Building.
Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation transforms the interior of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.”
Byrne’s project consists of a retrofitted antique organ placed in the [...]

Analog Suicide’s Tara Busch visits Off The Wall Antiques to have a peek at the RCA-Victor “Electrified” Piano from 1939, a gorgeous Art Deco electroacoustic instrument.

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 [...]

Kansas City Kansas Community College, Lewis University and the Conservatory of Music and Dance-University of Missouri at Kansas City have announced a call for scores for the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, to be held October 11-13, 2007 at Kansas City Kansas Community College.
Each concert will feature an 8.1 speaker diffusion system. Any composer regardless of [...]

March 02: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia.
All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Jeff Harrington is a classically-trained composer, a programmer and an advocate of music technology.
He has dozens of musical works, ranging from piano pieces to complete [...]

 

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At the recent 2007 NAMM Expo,the classic Rhodes piano was reintroduced, with a flurry of recommendations from notable keyboardists. The new Rhodes Mark 7 A is a true electromechanical instrument, available in 88-, 73- and 61-key sizes.
“You got it better than right, its unbelievable,” said Stevie Wonder., while Brian Auger of Oblivion Express [...]

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 [...]

Rhythmicon’s Feedback Machine is a mini-CDR release of experimental electro-acoustic music. The three tracks on Feedback Machine combine synth, saxophone, theremin and extensive electronic processing.
The release captures a live event featuring Carya Amara on electronics and Hypnotique on theremin and sax.
“The organisers of the event had asked performers to accomodate feedback from the audience - [...]

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.

Martin Ayres‘ Cellosphere is unlike any other cello music we’ve heard. Ayres creates electro-acoustic music, using ‘distortion, feedback, surges and mixes’ to create sonic environments from his cello and violin playing. Ayres music is modern electro-acoustic music that explores ambient soundscapes.
The tracks on Cellosphere are serene dronescapes, falling somewhere between the tape-loop canons of Fripp [...]

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 [...]