Waverails for iPad is a modular path-based loop processor, inspired by ‘avant-garde tape music and early electromechanical musical contraptions’.… Read More New iPad App, Waverails, Combines Modular Synthesis & Musique Concrete
Developer Eric Pitra let us know about an interesting new instrument that he’s created for real-time performance with cassette tape. The HC-TT Human Controlled Tape Transport is a compact cassette manipulation device that lets you play a cassette tape with your hand, similar to how you scratch a vinyl record. Sound is only produced while your hand is… Read More The HC-TT Human Controlled Tape Transport Is Like The Love Child Of Turntablism + Musique Concrète
Composer Tod Dockstader (1932-2015) died yesterday at the age of 82. Dockstader was a self-taught musician and he event went so far as to call his work ‘organized sound‘ (like Edgar Varése), to distinguish it as something different than traditional composition.
My homemade audio tape scratcher was uploaded by: Jeremy Bell
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Free Music Friday: Reader Atomic Shadow (Rod Mitchell) let us know about a new album that celebrates musique concrète & the legacy of electronic music pioneer Pierre Schaeffer. The album, Fifteen Studies of Noises from Pierre Schaeffer, is a compilation album from IFAR, the Institute For Alien Reaserch. This is one in a series of 40… Read More Free Album Celebrates Musique Concrète & The Legacy Of Pierre Schaeffer
UK electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram (1925-2003( has a new release out, The Oram Tapes, Volume 1. Two years in the making, the 46 track deluxe 4-LP edition features two and a half hours of previously unreleased recordings from Daphne Oram’s archives. None of this material has ever been available before and has been compiled… Read More Daphne Oram Gets New Release – On Vinyl
Essentials and Rarities – en was uploaded by: jeanmicheljarre
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Lecture 13 | MIT 21M.380 Music and Technology (Contemporary History and Aesthetics), Fall 2009 was uploaded by: MIT
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Free Music: Richard Devine’s Objects Of Granularity. Here’s what Devine has to say about the track: This track was composed for the Curtis (iphone/ipod/ipad) app by The Strange Agency. This piece is a Acousmatic composition based on everyday found objects. I recorded various wine glasses, gears, metal, motors, Ratchets, chimes, croaking frog scraper, Indian bells,… Read More Richard Devine’s Objects Of Granularity
Submit! Submit! Optigan.com’s Pea Hicks has issued a Call for Submissions for an upcoming Optigan disc, Musique Concrète: In December 2010 we plan to release an experimental Optigan disc called “Musique Concrète,” which will essentially be a collage of 57 sound loops in the tradition of early electronic studio tape music. We’re completely disregarding the… Read More Musique Concrète Optigan Disc Call For Submissions
