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."

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.

 a blog about sound art and creative sound design.
Check out this great blog by a lecturer from my school...

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.

http://twicezonked.blogspot.com/
 
Great blog with a lot of album downloads.
Also provides quite good background info.

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. 
 

I've been blown away by this fantastic field recording of ice sheets over a lake in Germany made by Andreas Bick.

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