WFMU’ s Beware of the Blog has posted an interesting article on Tangerine Dream, it’s history at the station, and some hard to find live MP3s: The passage of time is a great quantifier in the arts, and music that may have seemed to be the exclusive province of geeky stoners in its original historical… Read More WFMU: Tangerine Dream Bootlegs No Longer Just for Stoner Geeks
Composer Barry Schrader is featured on the first interview of a new podcast series Alive and Composing, created by Innova Recordings under the direction of Philip Blackburn, right. Innova is one of the leading labels for new music by American composers. The series premieres with an interview with Barry Schrader, a leading composer of electro-acoustic… Read More Innova Intros New Music Podcast
Fans of ambient, atmospheric and progressive electronic instrumentals should check out the Spotted Peccary podcast, Music is Art. The podcast features music, interviews and more. A recent podcast features a conversation with ambient artist Steve Roach. Audio podcasts are shows that you can subscribe to like a magazine. Add the podcast URL to an application… Read More Free Ambient Music Podcast: Music is Art
Knobtweakers has release a collection of free electronic music mp3s. The music is a compilation of 36 tracks featured on their MP3 blog in 2005. It is only available online, in the form of free downloads. Most of the artists represented here have been completely overlooked by the mainstream. “We bring you these tracks because… Read More Free Music From Knobtweakers: The Best of 2005
Dave’s Lounge is a weekly podcast that showcases the best in chillout, trip hop and downtempo music found on the Internet. It has an interesting variety of music for electronica fans, and is an easy way to find out more about free electronica available over the Internet. The podcast feed for Dave’s Lounge is http://www.daveslounge.com/rss.… Read More Free Podcast Features Chillout, Trip-Hop and Downtempo Music
Cinema Volta: Daily Ambience is a website that features a new free piece of ambient music each day. The site is a project of musician John Maxwell Hobbs, who uses “a stack of electronic equipment, musical instruments in various states of disrepair and occasional collaborators” to create a new ambient electronic works. Here’s how Hobbs… Read More Cinema Volta: Free Daily Ambient Music Tracks
The demo section at the Vienna Symphonic Library site has dozens of examples of virtual orchestration, ranging from classical works by Bach and Beethoven to more modern works by Copland, Stravinsky and Williams. The site provides information on the software used, along with the arrangement and programming. An example of what can be found is… Read More Free Virtual Symphonic Music
The Vienna Symphonic Library welcomes the New Year with a special concert recording. They’re not playing Johann Strauss at the Wiener Musikverein, but they’re presenting Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition on the virtual stage of the Great Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel and realized with various sample libraries of the… Read More Free Virtual New Years Concert
Garritan has posted its second album of free holiday music, A GPO Christmas 2. The album is a collaborative effort of the Garritan Personal Orchestra community. A community of professional and amateur composers and arrangers from all over the world met on the Internet and agreed to submit their own recordings of holiday pieces, to… Read More Free CD of Synthesized Orchestral Holiday Music
Formication has released its latest project, Pieces for a Condemned Piano, as a free download. According to Formication, the music “came about when we discovered an abandoned piano in a car park. The piano was unplayable but we managed to obtain 13 samples from the remains. These samples became the 45 minutes of music presented… Read More Free Dark Ambient CD – Pieces for a Condemned Piano
