This is a piece of generative music was created by Jay Gilligan, who is an artist who works in the medium of juggling. He created this Apollo-mission-inspired piece by bringing his juggling skills to the tangible controller blocks of a Reactable table. Gilligan describes how it works:
Plug-in developer Sonnox has partnered with mp3 inventor Fraunhofer IIS to create a new solution for encoding music for the web, Codec Toolbox. Codec Toolbox offers real-time codec auditioning, metadata editing and batch encoding for musicians, DJ’s, engineers and producers of recorded sound for the web. Codec Toolbox Key Features:
THUMP is holding a contest with a pretty sweet prize: two VIP tickets for the sold-out Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, along with hotel accommodations. The music festival will be October 25 – 27 in Asheville, NC. The 50+ festival acts range from Gary Numan and Nine Inch Nails and Bassnectar to Tara Busch and Big… Read More Mountain Oasis VIP Pass Contest
Organizers of the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, which takes place Oct. 25-27 in downtown Asheville, have announced several panel discussions that will be held during the event, in addition to the music lineup. Planned panels include an Inventors’ Roundtable and an Artist Spotlight: An Interview with Gary Numan, both held at Diana Wortham Theatre… Read More Panels Announced For Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit
MooCowMusic has released Looptical – a new app that turns iOS devices into a looping-based music studio. Here’s what they have to say about Looptical: Record your musical ideas on the go and mix them into a finished track, or use them as the basis for a new project back at your studio. Create looped… Read More Looptical A ‘Complete Music Production System’ For iPhone, iPod touch
Triplet Records has released the silver anniversary edition of The Interstellar Suite – a pioneering work of symphonic electronic music. The Interstellar Suite 25th Anniversary Edition is available in High Definition 5.1 surround sound as a 96/24 HiRes .flac download at High Res Audio, a high resolution music download service based in Germany. A HiRes stereo .flac… Read More Interstellar Suite Anniversary Edition Now Available
Gibson Brands has announced today that it has entered into a letter of intent with Roland Corporation and Cakewalk for Gibson to acquire Cakewalk, makers of Sonar, Z3TA+ 2 and other music software. Gibson Brands CEO Henry Juszkiewicz says that, as part of Gibson, Cakewalk will “enhance their flagship professional products, pursue provocative R&D initiatives,… Read More Gibson Buying Cakewalk From Roland, Here Are The FAQs
Chris Randall has announced that Audio Damage has released a new line of Eurorack effects modules. There are currently three modules in the line, 8 HP modules with ARM 7 CPUs ‘doing the dirty work’: DubJr is a hardware analog-style delay effect. Grainshift does granular pitch-shifting. Errorbox bends, spindles, folds, and mutilates. It’s a ‘sonic lawnmower’.… Read More Audio Damage Eurorack Effects Modules Now Available
Philips is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Compact Cassette, which the company introduced in Europe on August 30th, 1963 at the Berlin Radio Show. Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems, Philips’ Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips’ decision in the face of pressure from Sony to license the format… Read More Cassette Tape Format Is 50 Years Old
iZotope has updated its spectral audio editing and repair suite, RX. RX 3 and RX 3 Advanced have a completely redesigned user interface, and afford audio professionals better capabilities to reduce or remove reverb, clean up dialogue in real time, in addition to new features for post production, music production, mastering, and more. RX 3… Read More iZotope Updates RX Audio Editing and Repair Suite
