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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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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