Note: Be patient. The first few minutes are music only.

Nowhere. is a high-definition video presentation filmed across seven states over the course of seven months. It is inspired by the filmmaking of Ron Fricke and Godfrey Reggio in its employment of non-narrative structure, use of time-lapse photography, and observational technique.

I saw this project as [...]

Guillaume Loizillon just posted Phono Photo No. 6, an online exhibition of images with music.

Connecting two writings : one with the light and one with the acoustic wave.
Sound doesn’t comment the picture and is not either its audible side. However, the connection between the two elements requires a rebuilding, a drift of the [...]

DarwinTunes is a computer program developed by Dr Bob MacCallum, a bioinformatician at Imperial College London. In the first instance DarwinTunes does three things. It stores a lot of computer-generated songs on a server, presents the songs to the world via a web interface, and allows people to listen to and rate them.

So far [...]

This piece unites Cage’s conception of graph music with ideas from the field of swarm intelligence. The software uses a graph of notated musical fragments to generate a score in real-time, for live performance. It does this by allowing a swarm of virtual insects to crawl over the graph, choosing new fragments with each move.

New Music Hartford premieres 19 works written within less than an hour including “Zais” by Benjamin Fuhrman 0:01, “Space Music” by Jamie Klenetsky 0:59, “Meditation in 60 Minutes” by Ted Smeltz 1:57, “Tangent” by Peter Lawless 4:19, “Burrowing” by Charles A. Turner 5:54, and “Confined” by Evan Merz 7:03

Today I caught up with Elliot Miles McKinley, one of the members of the electroacoustic imrpovisation group earWorm.

In the interview, we talk about the group’s creative process, and how the four composers work as an ensemble. McKinley elaborates on the surprises and enlightening moments that occur when improvising with computers.

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Later today, I’m going to be talking with composer Elliot Miles McKinley. McKinley is a member of the improvisatory electroacoustic ensemble earWorm. We will be discussing the new, self-titled album from the group.

For now, here’s a video of the group performing at Michiana.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk with Adam Scott Neal about his new CD, Parallel Lives. Neal is one of the most visible young composers in the computer music scene. His work has been performed at many conferences and concerts, and he can be heard at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium [...]