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Orchestra Da Camera
Musical installation featuring several carillons connected to mouse wheels, where several mice randomly play the music - video embedded below:
Orchestra Da Camera is a musical installation in wich the 40 elements of the chamber are mais running on their wheels.
Each wheel its connected to a carillon and when it turns the carillon starts playing its musical note.
The great number of carillons and the random actions of the living creatures makes unrecognizable the melodies (lullabies by Brahms, Schubert and Mozart ) creating an unexpected musical carpet determined by the mice. -
Laser Cut Record
Instructables project from Amanda Ghassaei that can allow you to create playable records with a laser cutter (sure the sound isn’t that great, but still …) - video embedded below:
A few months back, I wrote about how I used a 3D printer to transform any mp3 into a physical record. Though all the documentation for that project is available here, and the 3D models could potentially be printed through an online fabrication service, I knew that the barrier to entry for normal people interested in trying out the process themselves was prohibitively high. With this project I wanted to try to extend the idea of digitally fabricated records to use relatively common and affordable machines and materials so that (hopefully) more people can participate, experiment, and actually use all this documentation I’ve been writing.
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Space Oddity
Cover version of famous David Bowie song recorded on the International Space Station, performed by Commander Chris Hadfield.
It is something special :)
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Nicolas Jaar Boiler Room NYC LIVE Show - Red Bull Music Academy Takeover
Perfect for a Sunday evening - a minimal electronic music mix which is a pleasure to listen to:
Listen to Nicolas Jaar’s first time in the Boiler Room.
DJing along side his label mates at Clown & Sunset, this was a night to remember in NY! -
Σclipse
7 tracks of new electronic music by various artists, free to download - recommended if you like future music / beats / glitch-hop / dub-step etc … :
Every six lunar months – when Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned – we experience a partial or total lunar eclipse that can be observed anywhere on the night side of Earth. Lunar eclipses can only occur at full moon, that time when the moon is directly opposite Earth in relation to the Sun. Many ancient civilizations cultivated a multitude of myths surrounding these astronomic events, most of them depicting wild animals or mystical creatures eating the moon or crossing it’s path. Tibetan Buddhists say that during a lunar eclipse, our actions, whether good or bad, are multiplied one thousandfold, whereas, in ancient egypt, a lunar eclipse was considered to be the precursor of natural disasters, catastrophes, wars, and diseases and the biggest possible harm would be cast upon the earth if Isfet, the manifestation of the total eclipse and god of injustice and violence, would make the sky fall onto Earth and therefore bring chaos upon it.
As the soundtrack for the lunar eclipse during the night of the 25th of April, we selected some exclusive and unreleased songs from Robot Koch, Submerse, Rain Dog, Sieren, Daisuke Tanabe, Lomovolokno, KRTS, and Daixie on this mini-compilation.Listen to the embed above, or go to the Bandcamp page for more info / download links here
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Glitchy Space
Dimiter Petrov developed this glitchy browser-based music visualizer, but would like feedback to improve it:
I made this glitchy music visualization demo last weekend and I’m looking for ways to improve it: http://happydawn.github.com/glitchy-space/
To try it, open in Chrome, press the play button and choose an MP3, preferably some glitch hop.
Send your suggestions to on Twitter
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Atlantics Vol. 3
Free eclectic electronic music compilation with something for everyone:
One year ago from today on April 20th, 2012, we released Atlantics Vol. 2 - a sprawling collection of tracks by talented friends and artists from around the world. This year, we asked a completely different group of fresh faces to contribute, and the result is something special. Not nearly as ambitious in scope as the previous installment (although pretty damn close) Volume 3 is a more concise and understated compilation, but no less engaging by any means. Spanning genres as disparate as hi-fi footwork and grainy new wave, it is another diverse and soulful collection of tunes that is sure to have something for everyone. Hopefully in addition to recognizing familiar names, you are also able to discover new talent, as showcasing the underground is something we continually strive to accomplish.
Listen to all 32 tracks in the embed above, or for more info, you can go to the Bandcamp page here
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3D-printed Music
Short, sweet, and simple demonstration of the motors of a 3D printer playing music:
NO PRINTER WHERE HARMED DURING THE MAKING OF THIS HACK!
(however this doesn’t mean that yours won’t be, use at own risk)At art hack day in Stockholm 2013 and using a Lulzbot 3D-printer I tried to visualize
different classical musical pieces.The project explores the alternative uses of 3D-printers. It’s being used to create
unique art by printing classical pieces of music while at the same time acting as
an instrument and performing the music itself.The stepper motors controlling the movement can be run at different speeds,
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V.I.M. - Maggie’s Last Party
Subversive dance track from 1991 takes samples of Margaret Thatcher MC-ing to great effect … “Let’s Have A Party! Acid Party!”
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Amon Tobin - ISAM Final Show - Hammersmith Apollo, London (08/03/13)
Finally managed to get to see the show … and thank god I did …
Absolutely fantastic - the video above is only a small example of what to expect (apologies for the crap quality). The party was definitely at the back.
The Tate Modern should consider doing a 20 year anniversary showing of this in the future …
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High Contrast - Spectrum Analyser - Official Video
From the Prosthetic Knowledge inbox, from Felix Pels:
Hi there,I check in with the Prosthetic Knowledge blog every now and again and really like what you post on there.
I figured that you’d probably like the video by High Contrast. Very glitchy
No commercial relation with High Contrast or the like, just the aesthetic seemed relevant for your style.
A music video that employs various art-tech methods and references, a cocktail of databending, glitch, vhs video, 8Bit graphics and sprites, 3D, Net Art - all put together well, worth a look if you like this sort of stuff. Video embedded below:
Thanks Felix :)
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0181 by Four Tet
In case you’ve missed this, Four Tet has uploaded a 40 minute album of rarities onto Soundcloud, and it’s fantastic:
Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001
Compiled 2012
TEXT021Also available on vinyl LP soon.
You can also download it for yourself at Soundcloud here
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GANGSTA RIDDIM
Great short music video combines motion graphics, 3D, net art and glitch aesthetics brilliantly:
░ GANGSTA RIDDIM ░ music video by ▌about:blank™ ░ track by Roel Funcken from about blank on Vimeo.
audio: excerpt of “Gangsta Riddim” remix by Roel Funcken. Gangsta Riddim (Original) by SCANONE. OUTSIDE RECORDINGS
video by about:blank aboutblnk.befacebook.com/aboutblnk -
Re: Sound Bottle
An electronic sound sampler in a bottle which constructs music from the sounds you give it, by Jun Fujiwara - video embedded below:
Re: Sound Bottle from Jun Fujiwara on Vimeo.
This is a music medium that can reproduce a recorded voice as music. It makes a database of sound sources that is managed and used as formal and automatic repetitions, and forms a music medium of the day. I felt something missing in the habitual use of music reproduction media, so I thought to create an interactive music medium that changes. By using everyday voices as sources of music, the sounds that are heard all the time every day carry infinite possibilities and help us reaffirm the enjoyment of music. I hope people can experience their own music.
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Arboration
Interactive game installation causes changes in a virtual natural environment based on harmonies played on a musical interface - video embedded below:
Arboration from Michael Allison on Vimeo.
Arboration is an experiment in virtual environmental game control that places the wellbeing of a digital forest into the hands of a performer using music (and music theory) as the control interface. Playing a capacitive sensing one octave piano keyboard either grows a forest or burns it to the ground depending entirely how its played. The fate of this forest is in your hands.
The idea behind this project stems from the desire to combine musical improvisation with dynamic narrative control. The physical action of playing the piano-like, touch-sensitive keyboard is translated via harmonic analysis into data that controls a 3D environment projected onto a screen. By analyzing the intervals between the notes being played by the performer we can determine if what is being played is harmonically consonant or dissonant which is sent through the programming to determine the visual output. This process allows music theory to be the core of the control structure, however musical form is not a factor allowing anyone to have the full experience, not just musicians. Music theory is the control, play is the vehicle, and visual/emotional response is the feedback system.
