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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 [...]

 

Piano Dreams and Nightscapes, the latest CD from electronic/ambient musician Brannan Lane, is one of the most relaxing and lovely ambient CDs released this year.
The CD explores the ambient territory pioneered by Brian Eno and Harold Budd on releases like Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirrors, and The Pearl. Though Lane visits similar territory, the [...]

 

Electro-acoustic music pioneer Barry Schrader has announced his new site, barryschrader.com, featuring audio clips, photos and an online store.
Schrader’s compositions 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 also the founder and first president of SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in [...]

 


Barry Schrader - EAM

EAM collects tracks from the last 15 years or so by electro-acoustic pioneer Barry Schrader.
Most of the work that Schrader presents here is entirely electronic. One piece, Dance from the Outside, combines electronic timbres with music concrete sound manipulation. Schrader does not discuss his techniques or tools, suggesting that the tracks should speak for themselves. [...]

 

This release captures ambient space music improvisations from a 1985 concert by Robert Rich. The eight tracks showcase a variety of ambient environments that explore different moods and sound, while also blending together into a 73 minute soundworld.
Inner Landscapes was recorded live at one of Rich’s long improvised concerts. This concert was about three-hours long, [...]

 

International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music - This site is the home of several databases of information about the production, research and teaching of electroacoustic music.
Their are two databases. The first covers electronic music studios. The second covers the works that have been produced in these studios. You can search the databases online, or browse an [...]