The New Radiophonic Workshop makes its debut today on new digital arts service The Space and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. While the original BBC Radiophonic Workshop is known for creating classic sound effects and music, between 1958 and 1998, in a makeshift audio laboratory, its successor is virtual. The Space – the new digital… Read More BBC Radiophonic Workshop Back With ‘Listen To The Space’
This video, by Rodrigo Constanzo, explores ‘concatenative synthesis’, an approach to synthesis that lets you play anything with anything: C-C-Combine is a corpus-based audio mosiacing application, built in Max/MSP, based on concatenative synthesis. Concatenative synthesis is a technique for synthesizing sounds by concatenating short samples of recorded sound. It is essentially a type of granular synthesis… Read More ‘Concatenative Synthesis’ Lets You Play Anything With Anything
“BOTANICUS INTERACTICUS”: Interactive Plant Technology was uploaded by: DisneyResearchHub
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Sunday Synth Jam: Mid-century style electronic music artist Atomic Shadow performas a ‘semi improvisation featuring tape machines, sine wave generators, burst generator, tape echo, various effects, and a dash of reverb.” He adds, “This piece includes sounds recorded during a very recent trip to the hospital.”
This video, via Pete Shambler, demonstrates using an iPad as a touchscreen controller for his modular synthesizer.
The Evil Eye is an analogue audio project, created by Belgian collective Indianen, that uses optical disks on a turntable, instead of audio disks: Instead of cutting grooves onto a surface, custom software allows the artists to design and print black-and-white waveform patterns as PDFs, which are then screenprinted onto 12-inch optical discs and played back on… Read More The Evil Eye Optical Synthesizer
Reader Jay Kim sent word of a new audiovisual installation, inspired by John Cage: Variations II of Variations II is a kinetic sculpture inspired by John Cage’s Variations series. Cage’s Variations II is a graphical composition that generates musical events using measurements of distance between dots and lines on a piece of paper. In my realization… Read More Variations II Of Variations II
Esquemáticos is a series of works that link hand-made embroidering with the symbolic representation of analogue circuit diagrams. The project is an exhibition of large schematic drawings that have been hand-sewn with a conductive thread and electronic components. The embroidered illustrations of the circuits are fully functional and can be operated by the public.
iDensity for iPad was uploaded by: apescarbo
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This video captures an experimental electronic peformance by the MiND ensemble (Music in Neural Dimensions – a ‘new-media performance group’ that utilizes custom interfaces to explore the mind-machine-music connection. Their performance is a combination of experimental electronic music, performance art and new age ideas.
