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]
Simple and beautiful animation and music by Renaud Hallée.
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.
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.
Gravité (Gravity) - Falling objects synchronized to produce rhythm. 2009
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 ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcXtT3rZcqg&
Video by Patrick Jean. Music by Naive New Beaters.
via [Gizmodo]
