Black Allegheny is one of the first albums made up entirely of swarm generated music. The album was created using a swarm-controlled sampler called Becoming, which was programmed by the composer.

Imperceptible Time by Evan X. Merz

Becoming is an algorithmic composition program written in java, that builds upon some of John Cage’s frequently employed [...]

Last month, we discovered Milton Garces’ Volcano Music, and now Micah Frank brings us another geological music project: Tectonic. This one utilizes real-time processing of xml feeds of earthquake data to generate a sonic quake landscape.

Tectonic is a sound sculpture created in real time by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A [...]

Patrick Liddell has created an interesting new twist on Alvin Lucier’s sublimely minimal composition, I am Sitting in a Room. In the original piece, Lucier fed the same spoken text back into a microphone over and over again until the sound of the room overcame the original input. In this new version, the [...]

For the past few days, the internet has been all aflutter about Tristan Perich’s new album, 1-Bit Symphony. The album combines an aesthetic awareness that will appeal to intellectual musicians, and catchy uptempo synth lines that will appeal to everyone.

1-Bit Symphony is unique because it is being released as a live album. [...]

If you’re an acclaimed artist who has achieved both commercial and academic success, how do you celebrate your birthday? With something completely ridiculous, apparently. On June 5th, on her 63rd birthday, Laurie Anderson is presenting a concert for dogs at the Sydney Opera House.

Laurie Anderson has composed a 20 minute work to [...]

The Heart Chamber Orchestra explores the use of heartbeats as a source of music data. Many people have tried similar things in the past, but it’s rare to see an ensemble of this size using this sort of data-mining.

The musicians are equipped with ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors. A computer monitors and analyzes the state of [...]

Milton Garces is capturing some interesting sounds by placing microphones on a volcano.

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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 [...]