Sound and Music

One of the CDs which recently turned up at our office was marked with a sticker on the polythene with the following information:

"CONCEPTUAL ART"

NOTICE: This CD is made from an original source of P.C.M. DATA @ +1 -1 +1 -1... This will probably not be rendered as sound by a CD players[sic] DAC.

MAKING SOUND WORK
Career networks for media and digital musicians
City University London Department of Music with Sound and Music and Screened Music Network

22-23 June 2010

OPEN TO ALL
£5 each day, free for students on production of ID and for members of

For my latest interview with professional performers I spoke to the trumpeter Dave Ward.
 
Tell me about a good piece you have played recently.

Nicolas Collins is and experimental musician and author of Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, a bible for anyone who want to make their own electroni

I've just finished putting together a guide to field recording, focusing on cheap and DIY solutions.  You can download it here.

The Revolution Could Be Podcasted - West Coast Fog, Psychedelia and the Great God Pan

Iain Sinclair, celebrated writer, documentarist, film maker, metropolitan prophet, urban shaman and keeper of lost cultures discusses his current work describing a Thames walk.

Tate Britain’s curator Nicola Moorby explores the relationship between Turner and the Thames through his paintings.