Simple and beautiful animation and music by Renaud Hallée.

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.

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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.

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Gravité (Gravity) - Falling objects synchronized to produce rhythm. 2009

by Renaud Hallée

Cosmogramma Fieldlines is a free augmented reality application to celebrate the imminent release of the new Flying Lotus album ‘Cosmogramma’. It can be controlled with your webcam or mouse.

Cosmogramma Fieldlines was developed by Aaron Meyers with sound design by Flying Lotus and harp by Rebekah Raff.  Based on the artwork by Leigh J. McCloskey.

For Mac and PC.

Get it here.

Lang Lang playing flight of the bumblebee…on an iPad ;)

Video by Patrick Jean. Music by Naive New Beaters.

via [Gizmodo]

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Michael Bierylo, teaching Music Synthesis at Berklee, takes a look at raster-noton. Check out the full article here.

Scenes and styles in general are often associated with specific labels. While there are a number of artists and labels that one might categorize as IDM(Intelligent Dance Music), Warp Records is recognized as the mothership of that particular genre, being the home of artists such as Aphex Twin andSquarepusher. To me, one of the most interesting things happening in electronic music right now is minimal noise techno, and if there’s an aesthetic motherlode for this music, it’s Raster Noton. The label was founded by three like-minded German artists, and came about through a merger of Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider’s Rastermusik and Carsten Nicolai’s Noton labels in 1999. The three are active performers, Bender as Byetone and Nicolai as Alva Noto. All three come from a background in visual arts, and visual presentation is a strong component of Raster Noton releases, as well as their artists’ performances.

I know – a little bit too late, but still interesting.

Musican/composer Mark Mothersbaugh (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, New York I Love You, Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist) discusses the musical scores of each of this years nominated films.