Jordan Rudess To Debut ‘Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra’ In Venezuela

Dream Theater keyboardist, Jordan Rudess has announced that he will debut a new work, Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra, in a performance Nov 19th in Venezuela. Explorations is Rudess’ first composition for orchestra and fulfills a dream that began at the renown Juilliard School of Music. “I once had the opportunity at Juilliard to watch… Read More Jordan Rudess To Debut ‘Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra’ In Venezuela

The Rhythmicon

History of Electronic Music: The Rhythmicon was an early drum machine created by Leon Theremin in 1931, at the request of the pioneering American composer Henry Cowell. This video shows the Russian scholar Andrey Smirnov demonstrating the how the Rhythmicon is played.  The device shown in the video is thought to be a later version, developed in… Read More The Rhythmicon

Electro-Music Festival Coming September 10-12

The electro-music festival, aka “Woodstock of electronic music,” is scheduled for this Sept 10-12 at the Greenkill Retreat Center in Huguenot, New York. This year’s event features three days of electronic music concerts, seminars, workshops, demonstrations, jam sessions, video art, a laptop battle, and a swap-meet. Action starts at 12 noon on Friday, September 10… Read More Electro-Music Festival Coming September 10-12

Benoit Maubrey’s Audio Ballerinas – The Most Fun You Can Have With An Electroacoustic Tutu

http://www.vimeo.com/12706784 Sunday Synth Jam: Benoît Maubrey is the director of Die Audio Gruppe, a Berlin-based art group that builds and performs with electronic clothes. Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that make sounds by interacting thematically and acoustically with their environment. For example the Audio Ballerinas use — among other… Read More Benoit Maubrey’s Audio Ballerinas – The Most Fun You Can Have With An Electroacoustic Tutu

Graphic Music – Henderson’s Radius Music

http://www.vimeo.com/12763642 Saturday Synth Porn: Radius Music, by Dublin new media artist Henderson, combines ideas of cartography and graphic scores as a means to produce sound. The device itself is an autonomous revolving machine that reads a distance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it… Read More Graphic Music – Henderson’s Radius Music