theory

iPhone Music Software: This is a demo video of Octavian (App Store link), a $2.99 iPhone Keyboard Calculator.

With Octavian, you can:

• Quickly find scales and chords and transpose them to any root note
• View any mode of any scale
• View chords in root position and first, second, and third inversions
• Build chords on any scale degree
• Use Scale Explore to view all scales that contain the notes of the current chord
• Use Chord Explore to identify chords built on the degrees of a scale
• Traverse the Circle of Fifths by holding down the note selector for 1.5 seconds
• View scales/chords as notes (C E G), intervals from the root (0 4 7), or intervals from the previous note (0 4 3).

NOTE Octavian is NOT a synth. It makes no sound. Bitnotic hopes to make Octavian THE music theory app for the iPhone.

Sunday Synth Jam: More of an electroacoustic avant garde jam – this video captures The Crank Ensemble performing String Theory:

For the Garden of Memory annual Solstice performance at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, June 21, 2009.

Excerpt features Bronwyn Ximm as “stimulator”, with Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Mark Brest van Kempen, Vicki Olds and Bodil Fox as “tuners”, with Mary Behm-Steinberg as “knitter”.

Sound is generated by placing piezo contact microphones on nylon string, and embedding them in knitting needles. Knitting concept by Bodil.

via LarnieFox: