Steve Reich – Pendulum Music

Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a performance of Steve Reich‘s 1968 process music piece, Pendulum Music, by Simon Acevedo, Mathieu Cart, Simon Paccaud & Olivier Schuppisser. In Pendulum Music, three or more microphones are suspended by their cables over the speakers that they are connected to. The microphones are set in motion, creating overlapping patterns of feedback. 

‘Motion Soundscape’, TimeGears, Part Electronic Music, Part Audio Time Capsule

Free Music Friday: Igor Vasiliev‘s TimeGears – One Broadcast Day. Part I is composition that combines ‘found sound’ from 1939 and new electronic music and sounds: This composition is impression of broadcasts the radio station WJSV (Washington, D.C.) recorded in one day on September 21, 1939. – “Just another day. Just another broadcast day evaporating into… Read More ‘Motion Soundscape’, TimeGears, Part Electronic Music, Part Audio Time Capsule

The Sormina – A New Wireless Instrument From Finland

The Sormina is a new electronic instrument, designed by Juhani Räisänen, that combines traditional materials with wireless support.: The purpose was to create a new instrument that would be as nuanced, and as easy to hold, as the violin. At the same time we wanted to have a modern instrument with electronic sounds and also visual… Read More The Sormina – A New Wireless Instrument From Finland