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Title: Notes from the metalevel: an introduction to computer composition Author: Heinrich Taube Publisher: Routledge Year: 2005 Pages: 348 Heinrich Taube, Associate Professor and Chair of Composition-Theory at School of Music of the University of Illinois, studied at Stanford with John Chowning and Leland Smith, then electronic music with Hans Peter Haller. Throughout his […]

Heinrich Taube – Notes From the Metalevel: an Introduction to ...

May 30, 2014 in READ tagged Common Music by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Title: Bécs Composer: Fennesz Label: Editions Mego Year: 2014 Duration: 00:43.30 Vote: 7/10 Bécs is without doubt an album of return for the Austrian composer Fennesz: a return to a solo dimension – after the collaboration in 2012 with the piano of Ryuichi Sakamoto – but also a return to […]

Fennesz – Bécs

May 29, 2014 in LISTEN tagged Fennesz by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

thumb-span-free-audio-analyzer-software — SPAN is an audio spectrum analyzer that has two important features: works in real time and is based on Fast Fourier Transform. These are supplemented by a third interesting feature, not of a technical nature, equally important: it is a free software.

SPAN, a real-time FFT audio spectrum analyzer

May 22, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Audio Analyzer / Free Software by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Title: Computer Music Authors: Vari Label: Nonesuch Year: 1969 Duration: 00:36.01 This LP edition of the Nonesuch Records can be considered one of the first collection of works realized with a computer, following few years after the historic collection signed Decca and titled Music From Mathematics firmata Decca. If the latter brought together some […]

AA. VV. – Computer Music

May 19, 2014 in LISTEN tagged Charles Dodge / Computer Music / Music N by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

The name MUSYS indicates a series of programs made by Peter Grogono and Peter Zinovieff in the early seventies at the Electronic Music Studios in London (EMS), born institutionalizing the private studio of Peter Zinovieff, aimed to the composition of electronic music.

MUSYS

May 16, 2014 in TOPICS tagged Computer Music / EMS London / MUSYS / Peter Zinovieff by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Aria Maestosa is a great software for those interested in a complete and professional use of their midi files but without having to pay licensing costs. Yes, Aria Maestosa is a MIDI editor and sequencer available free and open source under GPL license.

A free midi sequencer/editor: Aria Maestosa

May 9, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Free Software / Midi by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on September 8, 2014)

A new audio effects plugin for the Nanopack series, available on the website of GlitchMachines, the company founded by Ivo Ivanov, sound designer graduated at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, California, who has worked for Ableton and Twisted Tools as well as a developer of custom tools for artists such as Trent Reznor […]

Nanopack: Free Audio Plugins

May 6, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Free Software by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Title: Solens Arc Author: Kangding Ray Label: Raster-Noton Year: 2014 Duration: 00:50.07 Vote: 6/10 After the reflective atmospheres of the first two works, Kangding Ray realizes a new album oriented more towards to the dance floor instead of an immersive listening; preferring a marked rhythmic like the techno – a […]

Kangding Ray – Solens Arc

May 3, 2014 in LISTEN tagged Kangding Ray / Raster-Noton by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Title: The SuperCollider Book Edited by: Scott Wilson, David Cottle, Nick Collins Publisher: The MIT Press Year: 2011 Pages: 757 The title emphasizes the fact that we are not in front of one of the many books dealing with SuperCollider but faced with an editorial project that stands as the […]

AA. VV. – The SuperCollider Book

April 14, 2014 in READ tagged Supercollider by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

For the centenary of the birth of John Cage, in 2012, was released this app, Prepared Piano, made with the sounds of a prepared piano (hence the name), probably very similar, if not identical, to those that the American composer realized for its Sontatas and Interludes in 1946.

The Cage Prepared Piano App

March 29, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Android / App / Free Software / iOS / John Cage by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

If there was time to do a study on the most popular words among the musicians, in the first place probably would find the word jack, and who has grown musically in the garage of his own drummer should know that it is always better to have a few more […]

JACK, an audio connection kit

March 23, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Free Software / JACK / Jackbeat / Open Source by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Title: Beautyfear Author: Marsen Jules Label: Oktaf Year: 2014 Duration: 00:52.09 Vote: 7/10 After the experimental trio of Presence Acusmatique (2013), the German composer opens the new year with a new solo work that links him to the writing of The Endless Environmental Change of Colour (2013) and Nostalgia (2011).

Marsen Jules – Beautyfear

March 20, 2014 in LISTEN tagged Krill.minima / Marsen Jules by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)