Noah Vawter, a.k.a. Shifty, created Ambient Addition, an ambient music generator that interacts with your environment.
A tiny Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip analyzes a built-in microphone’s sound and superimposes a layer of harmony and rhythm on top of the listener’s world. In the new context, some surprising behaviors take place. Listeners tend to play with [...]
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reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking. The Reactable applies reacTIVision to create an electro-acoustic computer music instrument with a tangible user interface.
Robert Moog played an early prototype of the Reactable at the NIME [...]
The Music of Jeff Harrington
Composer, programmer and visual artist Jeff Harrington has a large variety of classical electronic and instrumental music available as free MP3s from his blog.
According to Harrington, his music is “tonal and intensely contrapuntal, inspired by New Orleans and classical music traditions.”
He has several free downloadable albums of his electronic works. Lachrimae Crystallinum (MP3) is “a [...]
General Fuzz ( James Kirsch) has published 3+ albums of electronic music that are available as free downloads from his site.
According to Kirsch, “It is electronic music with the emphasis on music. Its not so much dance music as music to zone out to.” GF’s tracks have down-tempo grooves and often have a jazz influence.
Check [...]
Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick is one of the great living composers. He has been heavily involved in electronic music since the 1960’s, and created some works which helped define the world of academic electronica. He also has been an innovator in works that involve eletronics and acoustic instruments, acoustic instruments manipulated electronicly, and other multimedia combinations. His [...]



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