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."

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

27 March
ICA, London

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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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.

The Women's Audio Archive began as a series of recordings, taped by Lewandowska after leaving her home country in 1984, grown out of an interest in language as a site of cultural displacement. These recordings document public events, seminars, talks, conferences, and private conversations as valuable records of a particular time in discourse, beginning around 1983 until 1990.

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.

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

I’m looking for a bit of crowdsourced help. We’re currently planning the creation of an artists toolkit. Basically a one stop shop of advice, case studies and templates to help out artists who work in music and sound and I’d like some help in working out what problems people want solving and what would be useful for people who make music and sound art.

Acoustic listening devices developed for the Dutch army as part of air defense systems research between World Wars 1 and 2.

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