Resources & Links


Journal

 
Array
Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (out of Turkey) ... Articles to be published online as well as in print. Starts 2007

MusicWorks - magazine and CD devoted to "rare and daring explorations in sound"

Journal of Music and Meaning



online

Institute for Studies in American Music NEWSLETTERS


OpenSpace

Blogs




Listen

Kalvos and Damien's New Music Bazaar - Great listening resource - interviews, music, essays, etc. All their weekly shows for the past several years are available for listening (hard to jump around within a show, though).
Some composer interviews

WFMU
Radio Radio - "Experimental Radio"
    Check out the DJ Spooky interview for mixing, dj culture, plunderphonics
UbuWeb : Sound -  20th Century Sound Poetry and all types of sound art, historical and contemporary. Essays, information and listening examples.
    Check out The Four Horseman,  Mischievous Eve
BBC  "Experimental" Music

                    Sonus  -  collection of contributed EA music
                    EuCuE  -  The whole Concordia Electroacoustic concert series on mp3?? Wow!
                    LocustMusic -

                   Sounds on Google Earth

                    Online EA radio :

                    elektramusic
                    BandEAPart - postrock, elctro "popular", but good stuff anyway!
                    http://www.wrek.org/
                    http://www.wcbn.org/
                    http://www.cjsf.bc.ca/guide.html/index.html
                    http://www.resonancefm.com/
                    Super Secret Lodge Show: http://www.duckhugger.com/ssls.html  on  http://www.kaosradio.org/
                    http://www.wfmu.org/onair.html
                    http://www.sr.se/p2/manus/m2005/m050719.stm
                    Modisti Top Online Radio http://80.59.165.179:1001/html/modisti-onlineradio32kbps.html
                    http://www.swr.de/swr2/audiohyperspace/engl_version/index.html
                    http://www.wgdr.org
                    McGill  Electronic Music Stuido archives
                    Radio Art


                   learn
                     Iskar's guide to Electronic Music (House, break, thecno, acid, etc ....)
                    

Youtubing

Laurie Spiegel Playing 1977 Bell Labs Hal Alles Synth
Stockhausen interview

Wii-mote controlling Kyma

 
Web Art w/ sound

Turbulance (from New Radio) - Turbulence commissions artists exploring the Internet, and who both use existing applications and technologies and develop new ones to create innovative work.
 New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) was founded in 1981 to foster the development of new and experimental work for radio and sound arts.

Nio, the Art of Interactive Audio for the Web (1991), Jim Andrews - an interesting essay, also has links to other interactive audio sites at the bottom.

SunDay - Interactive NYC Soundscape
Brian Juday on Soundtoys - Game-inspired graphics, interaction and sound art

Web art links
on Vispo.com - nice collection, Jim!

Marek Choloniewski's   Performance video and sound documentations (webcast archives) of SoundArt Festivals   

            Music
                   Links


                 Artists
                   Lemur  - Eric Singer's lovely music bots
                   Ellen Band

                   Web Places

                   Odd Music   Oddmusic.com is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments.
                                       Kinda picks up where EMI (Experimental Musical Instruments) left off .....

                   Acousmatica  -  The most web-savy presentation of  news, interviews, announcements, etc. on EA music set up by Ricardo Climent.

               


Organizations

International Musique Electroacoustic Bourges - Festivals, competitions, archives

Sonic Circuits  - Orgaize material for CD distribution and concerts globally, some vids and music to hear

ISEA - InterSociety for Electronic Arts

Arts Electric      Calendar of worldwide media events

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology

China Electronic Music in Beijing

Musiques and Reserches, Belgium

STEIM, Amsterdam

Art and Science Collaborations


Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music - DIEM (Denmark)

International Computer Music Association - ICMA

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States - SEAMUS (USA)

Insitute of Research and Coordination in Acoustics /Music - IRCAM (France)

Digital Arts Network - great resource for news on mixed media arts, particularly in England.

<>People
Bill Buxton
Sampo Syreeni in Finland
Augustino di Scipio Musical Examples, weritings and  references   and more.
Robert Normandeau
Richard Parncutt  Code for classic pitch and roughness algorithms


MEDIA
Ars Electronica
Mediamatic

                    Acoustic Ecology

 


Historical

Futurist Music
General Futurist page
Pratella's Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
The Art of Noises, by Luigi Russolo
     Published as a booklet July 1, 1913.

                    Article on Russolo's instruments by Hugh Davis



"Futurism and Notes" by  Daniele Lombardi. Good scholarly article on the topic. 

Percy Grainger's Art: Da-Da ist or Aussie "make-do-ist"?           by Elinor Wrobel
Grainger: The Free Music Machine

Stockhausen - great series of pages reviewing recordings and recapping history

The music of William Russell

John Cage online - links to info, liner notes, mp3's, pictures ...

Electronic Instruments
A list of just about all of the pre-60's inventions
Obsolete.com - 120 years of electronic music
Chadabe article in Electronic Musician, April 2000

Musique Concrète
"Pierre Schaeffer, 1953: Towards and Experimental Music,"  by Carlos Palombini.
"Musique Concrète Revisited",  Carlos Palombini
Interview with Pierre Schaeffer by Tim Hodgkinson, 2 April 1986

Other
UbuWeb : Sound -  20th Century Sound Poetry and all types of sound art, historical and contemporary. Essays, inofrmation and listening examples.
History of Spatial Music, by Richard Zvona
History of Canadian EA - great artical on one of the (perhaps the) most active EA country in the world.
Ishkur's Guide to electronic dance/trance/ibiza/house/etc/etc/etc/ Geneology and examples. Nice site.
Oral History - interviews with Babbitt, Davidosvsky, and more

Historical Preservation  - Daniel Langlois Foundation


EA Music Stores

Electronic Music Foundation (EMF)
Forced Exposure
Earsay
ElectroCD
Frog Peak Composer's Collective
EarthEar   - environmental audio and soundscape source

Alternative to the algternatives
Staaplaat

Bill Thompsons places:

        http://www.forcedexposure.com


        http://www.secureonlineshopping.biz/sound323/

        and from scotland you might try volcanic tongue:

        http://www.volcanictongue.com/

        http://www.rermegacorp.com/

        Elektramusic - label devoted to contemporary and electroacoustic music, emerging composers

CD and SoundStuff RReviews http://www.furthernoise.org


Sound description and analysis, listening, hearing

Luke Windsor:
     "A Perceptual Approach to the Description and Analysis of Acousmatic Music" - PhD dissertation
     "Towards a perceptual theory of acousmatic music".
 

Michel Chion

Michael Norris,  Reinstating Interpretation
Keywords: analysis, structuralism, listening behaviours, spectromorphology, implication/realisation

Auditory Demonstrations:
    From KyuShu

Auditory Modeling
         Essex

Music annotation & Information Retrieval
Sound Serach
Clam music annotator
from  UPF


Music and the Brain
muSICA research


Sounds

FreeSound Project  - The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ...

Nature

Frogs

Brazil Birds
Fish make noise, too.


Software

 

Software
Vocoder for Mac OSX
Bioacoustics software
AudioMulch
Coagula - drawing images to sound - pretty cool
Granulab - Sound Granularizer Sonogram,
Spectral processing for OSX 
FreeAudio Plug-ins for standard software systems

Sonogram from Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz DFKI

 

FlexMusic Audio Editor - Unique music software tools -- available to download -- for digital musicians to generate, compose, edit, compress, play and DJ

 

Synths
Open Sound World - a graphical synth programming language - includes an OSC implmentation.
PD
Sonogram from Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz DFKI


and what-not

Composer lists, links, info and diskography
The Living Composers project. - Links to hundreds of living composers. Biographies, disckography, essays, etc.
Electroacoustic Music Database      Contains a list 21511 electroacoustic works composed by about 4000 Composers with disk catalogue numbers.
 

EA & Computer Music courses on the Web
Snyder's Electroacoustic Music class with good links on 20th century composers and student reports.
The Science of Music, Bernard Tan's NUS physics course (PC1327/GEM1519, Spring 2003).
The Music of Sound, Anna-Marie Higgins' Web Course with resources, links, musical extracts.


EA Topics
Journal of Electroacoustic Music - selected articles from this discontinued journal.
MusicThing.blogpost


Gadgets and Commercial Stuff

CreateDigitalMusic - Reviews, announcements, tricks, gadgets, all the latest for home studios


Link Links

Information, composers, record companies
Sonic Art Links
Midi Sequencers

The 2005 annual MEGA SOUND LINK s to:  essays, film sound, software, plug-ins,  sound effecs, MIDI info, you name it .....
    Also here.

Max/MSP stuff
cvjitter - computer vision for jitter

Places
Miso Music Portugal

Africa
crammed   electronic thumb pianos etc.


OSC Open Sound Control

                    OSC conference proceedings, 2004


                Controllers
                    Making Things

Tangible Music Interfaces (Links) http://www.iua.upf.es/mtg/reacTable/MusicTables/
McGill Wiki


Singapore
Flux-us


Art & Technology

Lots o' links

Music and the Brain
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 999, 2003  Neuroscience of Music
  (must log on to NUS library system)

Exploratorium exhibit on the Science of Sound

Michail O'Donnell's Digital Sound Modeling course

Agustino di Scipio
Questions Concerning Music Technology: From Heidegger's View to Feenberg's Subversive Rationalization

Signals
Hilbert Transform

DSP tutorials ande programming

Online DSP book

DSP related material, links

Comp.DSP - code, terminology

 

Game Sound Research

Karen Collins

Game Research in general
Game Culture Research
Links to game researchers

Game SOund
Off-computer audio game

Media Schools
IAMAS - Institute of Advmanced Media Arts and Sciences in Japan

Acoustic Ecology
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
EarthEar - environmental audio and soundscapes
NatureSongs - sounds, microphones, photos, info, commercial

Popular press on Free Music
Guradian Article (May 2005)  -  Water music:  Be it Handel or splashes on bowls down a mine shaft, composers shape sounds and invest them with meaning


Calendars (events around the world)

at Arts Electric


Discussion Groups
   SoundArt  at Yahoo
   Sound-article at Yahoo - for creative film sound design

 

Bizzarre
Acoustic Locators


Music Information Retrieval
Dissertations
Shlomo's Computer Audition Tutorial


Sonification

                    Interactive Sonification 

                    Bielefield group (Thomas Hermann)
                    Sonification.de  - a good source for latest events, overviews ...


Optical Illusions
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

Cool Stuff
JBum Jim Bumgardner software (Flash, physics JSyd (software synthesizer) source code, etc.
Jim Bumgardner's blog