Sound and Music

Interesting article...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8526699.stm

Wading through all the amazing stuff on UbuWeb oftens seems like insumountable task. Well WFMU are hosting a streaming radio station of content found on UbuWeb. Always makes for good office listening..

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Last Wednesday STEIM (STudio for Electro Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam held an open get-together with a lot of local instrument builders / hackers.

Yesterday I came across an article entitled 'Audiences hate modern classical music because their brains cannot cope', which I considered blogging on its own just because it was quite amusing that it contained claims that 'Schoenberg and Webern's music doesn't contain patterns'

I've just finished reading John Maeda's "The Laws of Simplicity" which although not as life changing as the blogosphere claims is still inspirational in its clarity and, well, simpleness.

The Women's Audio Archive began as a series of recordings, taped by Lewandowska after leaving her home country in 1984, grown out of an interest in language as a site of cultural displacement. These recordings document public events, seminars, talks, conferences, and private conversations as valuable records of a particular time in discourse, beginning around 1983 until 1990.

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Check out this great blog by a lecturer from my school...

Composers can't afford to have thin skins, or they might get their vanity pricked. As William Walton once found at the hands of Lord Berners.
 

Something which seems to be happening occasionally now is musicians releasing project files or stems (partial mixes) of recordings.  Even illegal versions are also appearing, meaning you can change music to sound like you want it to, or take it apart, rather than the producer and engineer.

Bidoun magazine has been one of my favourite art mags for the past few years and this months issue centres around Noise and containes The Indian Whistlers’ Association, Alan Bishop, FM 20-30, Jace Clayton and Kelefa Sanneh, Yto Barrada, Sophia Al-Maria, Kuwaiti Kar Krash, Cevdet Erek, Serhat Köksal, William E.