Alex Di Nunzio

Today Pure Data is a visual programming language, which allows you to develop software for music composition, or simply a language for making music, free and open source. But, from a historical point of view the question it’s bit more complex. With this post I’m trying to trace the development […]

Pure Data

July 26, 2014 in TOPICS tagged Free Software / Max/Msp / Miller Puckette / Open Source / Pure Data by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 19, 2018)

Giada is a free, open source audio software, oriented to the use of loops and sound samples, to manage thanks to the support of MIDI controller, both software and hardware.

Giada, your free loop machine

July 18, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Drum Machine / Free Software / Loop / Open Source by Alex Di Nunzio

Title: Computer Music Retrospective Composer: Lejaren Hiller Label: Wergo Year: 1986 Tracks: 10 Duration: 0:55.23 This collection of music composed by Hiller Lejaren through a computer, was published after the presentation which he presided in Japan on behalf of the United States Information Agency at the Universal Exposition in Tsukuba, […]

Lejaren Hiller – Computer Music Retrospective

July 16, 2014 in LISTEN tagged Illiac Suite / Lejaren Hiller by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on July 28, 2014)

Title: Experimental Music: Composition With an Electronic Computer Authors: Lejaren Hiller, Leonard Isaacson Publisher: McGraw-Hill Year: 1959 Pages: 214 In 1956 Lejaren Hiller, a composer born chemist, suggested that a computer, properly programmed, it could be used as a support tool for composing music.

Lejaren Hiller, Leonard Isaacson – Experimental Music: Composition With an ...

July 8, 2014 in READ tagged Experimental Music / Illiac Suite / Lejaren Hiller by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on July 8, 2014)

A nice little game, but also an interesting application developed in openFrameworks by Eric Rosenbaum, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab: MmmTsss is a free software, available for Mac and Windows.

Create your loops, for free.

June 16, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Free Software / Loop by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 28, 2014)

Title: Musiques Formelles Author: Iannis Xenakis Publisher: La Revue Musicale Year: 1963 Pages: 233 Musiques Formelles is certainly a fundamental book to explore the artistic career of Iannis Xenakis, and represents an important milestone for the historical path of computer music.

Iannis Xenakis – Musiques Formelles

June 14, 2014 in READ tagged Iannis Xenakis by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on July 21, 2014)

Title: Cybernetic Serendipity Music Authors: Vari Production: ICA Year: 1968 Tracks: 10 Duration: 0:52.06 Cybernetic Serendipity is considered a real cult event among those interested in the use of technology in the arts. It is an exhibition on cybernetics art organized in London in 1968 by the Polish curator Jasia […]

AA. VV. – Cybernetic Serendipity Music

June 12, 2014 in LISTEN tagged Computer Music / Cybernetic Serendipity / Lejaren Hiller / Peter Zinovieff by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

ZynAddSubFX is a virtual synthesizer, open source and free, but whose biggest problem is to have a very unpronounceable name. It was designed in 2002 by Paula Nasca, a programmer who also developed various sound synthesis algorithms implemented on numerous software. Nasca is also known for having developed Paulstretch, a software for extreme sound […]

A Free Virtual Synthesizer: ZynAddSubFX

June 10, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Digital Synthesizer / Free Software / JACK / Open Source by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

When talking about the Synthi 100 may happen to make some confusion about what the acronym actually means. Commonly the name Synthi 100 means the modular analog synthesizer made in the early seventies in London; but it is equally true that in reference literature the name Synthi 100 is also used […]

EMS Synthi 100

June 8, 2014 in TOPICS tagged Computer Synthi / MUSYS / Peter Zinovieff / Synthi 100 by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

After the realization of EMS Synthi 100 hybrid synthesizer, Peter Zinovieff and colleagues of the Electronic Music Studios in London, decided to make a new version, easier than its predecessor. In fact, although the EMS Synthi 100 had received good feedback by musicians, it was a machine very complex in […]

Computer Synthi

June 8, 2014 in TOPICS tagged Computer Synthi / MUSYS / Peter Zinovieff / Synthi 100 by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on November 6, 2014)

Title: CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 3 Authors: Various Label: Centaur Records Year: 1989 Tracks: 6 Duration: 00.59:28 Third in the series of publications produced by the record Consortium to Distribute Computer Music (CDCM), the nonprofit organization of Dartmouth College, Texas.

AA. VV. – CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 3

June 5, 2014 in LISTEN tagged EMS Illinois by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Jackbeat is a free audio sequencer for Linux, OS X and Windows. Its interface is quite simple and intuitive, as already seen in other drum machine.

Jackbeat, a simple free sequencer

June 4, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Drum Machine / Free Software / JACK by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)