Sound and Music

Papa Sangre is a new video gama that doesn't use image but sound to immerse the player.

"It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device."

27 March
ICA, London

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..

UbuWeb Radio

UbuWeb Site

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.

Anyone short of a birthday present for that special someone who has nerdish tendencies?...  Look no further!   Hours of fun with Vintage Synth Trumps!  http://www.gforcesoftware.com/cards.php

Soon the Barbican's Curve gallery will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches.

Elizabeth Winters has won the Making Music category at this year's British Composer Awards!  Elizabeth composed The Serious Side of Madness for Kensington Chamber Orchestra as part of last year's Adaopt a Composer project.   Sound and Music delivers Adopt a Composer in partnership with Making Music and PRS Foundation, who also support the project financially.

Brighton-based pianist, dulcimer player and composer, Geoff Smith, has invented the world's first fully fluid, acoustic microtonal piano, which you can hear in action in the video below.