Beautiful Opener for the Kurz und Schön Shortfilm Festival.

Production: Feedmee Design
Sounddesign: Loy production

Nice way to demonstrate the power of music and the way it affects our habits.

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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.

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Sonic Branding done right.

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.

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.

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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.

Roger Linn works on a new musical interface to enhance the boundaries of  traditional music instruments.

This design uses a fingerboard grid consisting of 6 rows of 24 semitones each, similar to a guitar. In acknowledgement of my wife Ingrid’s contribution to the engineering, we like to refer to this note grid as the “InGRID”. :) It also has two thumb control strips, one on each side of the fingerboard, to be used for sustaining fingered notes after release, strumming, bowing, blowing or restriking, and also has a wind sensor for added expression. (Ignore the 4 long, thin bars on each side; they were to be used as separate palm-actuated sustain bars, but I’ve decided that the two thumb strips work better for this.)

Check out out Roger Linns Homepage here for additional information.

Making a statement through music is far from unfamiliar – some of the most powerful messages of our time have been embodied in the most fetching melodies. Taking the wide human reach held within this medium, designer Craig Colorusso has created “Sun Boxes,” an alien field of independently operating, solar-powered speakers, each remitting its own distinct guitar sample. A true marriage of sound and (natural) light, this array of speakers is able to create a glorious composition that attests to the value of solar power in today’s world.

via [inhabitat]