The Sonic Art Union live in London

Pauline Oliveros's Valentine

A screenshot with many different windows of Qtractor.

The Audio/MIDI Multi-Track Sequencer Qtractor

AA. VV. - Computer Music From the Outside In

sodaphonic-free-audio-editor

How Sodaphonic works: a free online audio editor

Aural Sonology, a plug-in for the Acousmographe

thumb_csound — Csound is a computer music software that belongs to the Music N family. The first version was built in the mid-eighties, over the years has undergone at many changes that have improved performance and expanding its fields of application. Csound is still used and open source, supported by a large […]

Csound

thumb_music360 — The Music 360 is the first, between the music software belonging to the family of Music N, to be realized by Barry Vercoe; he is now known in particular for the development of Csound, of which the Music 360 represents the oldest antecedent .

Music 360

thumb_phase_vocoder — Phase Vocoder is one of the most popular methods of analysis/resynthesis of sound spectrum that develops, in the digital domain, concepts already adopted for the Vocoder by Homer Dudley. Traditionally adopted for voice signals, the Phase Vocoder, similar to the analog device, is structured in two sections useful to the […]

Phase Vocoder

thumb_cmix — Cmix is a computer music software designed and developed by Paul Lansky. Belongs to the Music N family, although it was designed for a more specific context of concrete music.

Cmix

thumb_musicii — The Music II is a sound synthesis software for computer music. It is an updated version of The previous Music I, and as the latter belongs to the family of Music N.

Music II

Music N is an acronym, coined retrospectively, by which commonly indicates a set of computer music languages, developed over forty years. Although made by different people and in different contexts, these languages have in common certain characteristics that have led, in fact, to speak of a single family membership.

Music N

thumb_acousmographe_resources — The Acousmographe was developed in Paris by researchers of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) and was designed for a graphical representation of electronic music.

The Acousmographe: for a graphical representation of music

thumb_graphic1 — The Graphic 1 is a hybrid system (hardware and software) for graphics communication between user and computer. It was developed by William Ninki at Bell Labs in 1965. The system, designed for engineering purposes, it was used by Max Mathews in combination with the Music IV in order to define […]

Graphic 1

thumb_music10 — Music 10 is a sound synthesis software for computer music developed by John Chowning and James Moorer. It belongs to Music N family.

Music 10

thumb_synthetic_performer — The Synthetic Performer today represents an historical technological adventure, very interesting even for the following research in computer applications for music.

Some historical documents on Synthetic Performer

thumb_syntom — The name Syntom identifies a project of hybrid computer music system (analog and digital) developed at Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer in collaboration with the Stockholm Studio EMS. Syntom was inspired to the Groove by Max Mathews.

Syntom

thumb_midiformer — MidiFormer, initially called MacsOutiL, are patches developed at Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) interfaced with Max/Msp software. Were born from the idea of using MIDI technology for real-time applications designed for the needs of those who were engaged in the context of Musique Concrète.

Midiformer