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."

After a couple of things coming up lately on our facebook page related to using apps on phones for music making, I thought I'd look into it in a bit more detail.

Wada Ei's performance installation uses TV screens as percussion instruments. A Nam Jun Paik-style gamelan. The artists says:

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.

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.

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Resonator is a public programme produced by the friendly people at Culture Lab at Newcastle University as part of AV Festival happening March 5-14th in NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough. AV Festival is an international festival of electronic arts, featuring visual art, music and moving image.
www.avfestival.co.uk

Tilburg's Incubate festival launched last September with a pretty eclectic week of events and artists - an over-used adjective, perhaps, but the only one I can think of for a festival that put Hermann Nitsch, Beninese band Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou, baile funk DJs and obscure black metal acts on the same bill, along with film, poster art, installation and dance. 
 

You may or may not be the most tech-savvy musician / composer, but there's definitely software out there that'll fit your needs.