Impressive sculpture by Federico Diaz:

beginning on october 23, 2010, MASS MoCA in north adams massachusetts, will be showing fredrico diaz’s ‘geometric death frequency—141’, a sculpture made from 420,000 black spheres made and assembled by robotics. the final sculpture will measure 20 feet by 50 feet and sit in the courtyard of the museum. the installation is precisely crafted from robotics, milling and assembling the entire sculpture sphere by sphere, completely void of any human interaction. diaz developed this process for building on his own using CAD software and
manufacturing techniques along with pure data and algorithms based on particle physics. with this system each sculpture is completely untouched by human hands from concept to materialization.

via [designboom]

Congratulations to Markus Wagner and Markus Wipplinger!

Their project Bloadboad won the infoscreen award at the vienna content award 2010. I had the pleasure to score this beautiful stop-motion piece. You can find more information here.

Thanks to steff for the pic.

The austrian TV Broadcaster Servus TV is going to air two of my recent projects:

Free Solo
sunday | 12.09.2010 | 23:35 Uhr

Eiszeit: Reflektion einer Expedition
sunday | 26.09.2010 | 22:30 Uhr

I think of this project as being very much inspired and coming out of the techniques that I have developed and learned scoring classical music.  But learning to score and write music in the 21st century is already a primitive thing.  Electronics have been a part of it for a while with many composers.  I grew up listening to Philip Glass and The Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Steve Reich using tape loops in his pieces. In a way the definition of orchestration has different standards already.  At the same time, with the first project and this one, it’s music written for stereo headphones or a stereo speaker system.

via [CDM]

Fascinating work by Dalton Ghetti.

via [telegraph]

Good article on Product Design Guru Dieter Rams at Gizmodo.

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.