Simple and beautiful animation and music by Renaud Hallée.

Sonic Branding done right.

Very nice read at CDM about Notation, MIDI and the Future of writing music.

The history of music and the history of music notation are closely intertwined. Now, digital languages for communicating musical ideas between devices, users, and software, and storing and reproducing those ideas, take on the role notation alone once did. Notation has always been more than just a way of telling musicians what to do. (Any composer will quickly tell you as much.) Notation is a model by which we think about music, one so ingrained that even people who can’t read music are impacted by the way scores shape musical practice.

Read the full article here.

The Makers of the wonderful, physical modeled, acoustic Piano Simulation Pianoteq talk with Peter Kirn on developing Pianoteq and programming Music Software for Linux.

Check it out here.

Flickr user Eric Fisher created these maps using the GPS information of images in Flickr, combined with the home city of the user taking the photo. The red spots show the most popular photo subjects, where every tourist goes “oooh” and “aaah”, snapping images which will serve to torture family and friends back at home. The blue spots show normal photos, taken by locals, while the yellow ones are undetermined.

Visit Eric Fischers Flickr Site for more Info and 79 other Cities.

via [Gizmodo]

The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media, and around the world. At a time in the history of the arts where digital technologies have revolutionized distribution, democratized access, and completely re-imagined the scope and scale with which an artist can create a vision and reach an audience, The Creators Project is a completely new kind of arts and culture channel for a completely new kind of world.

Check out this inspirational videos, from all type of different areas, here.

update_3 | body sound is a art biennale ,organized by the Liedts-Meesen Foundation, which takes place in Ghent.

The sound exhibition ambitions to go beyond the auditory system and uses echoes, vibrations, timbres, resonances, waves to put the body of the visitor to the test. Through a scenography designed by Bureau des Mésarchitectures, 14 installations invite the public to explore different perceptions of sound through their interactions with the materials, their position when listening and the movement of their body within space.

via [wemakemoneynotart]

Nice read on “The Independent” website about non-linear sounds used in soundtracks:

Scientists have found that many of the emotionally-evocative moments in some of the most popular films are enhanced with a sound score that exploits the human brain’s natural aversion to the “non-linear” sounds widely used in the animal kingdom to express fear and distress.

Read the full article here.

HTML5, Javascript and WebGL are going to change the way we use the web browser. have you ever thought of using the browser to create music or visualize music?

Check out Peter Kirn’s post for more information here.

Think of the possibilities for music, animation, design or even editing…

When looking for a cheap, reliable way to track gestures, Robert Wang and Jovan Popovic of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory came upon this notion: why not paint the operator’s hands (or better yet, his Lycra gloves) in a manner that will allow the computer to differentiate between different parts of the hand, and differentiate between the hand and the background? Starting with something that Howie Mandel might have worn in the 80s, the researchers are able to use a simple webcam to track the hands’ locations and gestures — with relatively little lag. The glove itself is split into twenty patches made up of ten different colors, and while there’s no telling when this technology will be available for consumers, something tells us that when it does become available it’ll be very hard not to notice.

via [engadget]