Sound and Music

I've been having a look through last.fm and putting together some playlists, mainly as an introduction to the history of the music and sound we're involved in.

Please feel free to make contributions and to be our friend- I've tried to keep a broad range of artists, and those with playable material up.

Today I read that the UK Metropolitan Police have started to use Electrical Network Frequency[PDF] (ENF- small variations in the frequency of AC mains electricity) in order to identify or verify the time when audio recordi

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.

My former professor whom I studied with at Concordia University in Montreal just published a book 'Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance' on MIT Press. It's a massive heavy-weighted reader that I was pleasantly surprised to come upon at the Tate store.

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Information is Beautiful is a blog based around visualisation of information, often relating to current affairs issues.

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/?page=registration

This year the Linux Audio Conference will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from the 1st until the 4th of May. There will be lots of FREE workshops, performances, seminars, etc. about and with musical applications of FREE Linux software.