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Posts from ‘January, 2005’

The Lemur

No, not those animals with the big eyes; the Lemur is a new touch-control surface for computer-based synthesists. (Why do
lemurs so fascinate musicians?)
Not cheap: $2495. But it provides something exceptionally cool: you can drag-and-drop your desired controls in a Mac Windows, or Linux application and up load them to the Lemur. The controls are all [...]

createdigitalmusic

Those of you missing Metlay’s take on new gear should take a gander at createdigitalmusic. Nice reportage on upcoming interesting boxen.

(For those who want to see Metlay’s reviews in print, check out Recording Magazine. Mike is associate editor; you’ll often see articles there by other EMUSIC-L alumni as well.)

Music for replicants

On another ChucK note, I’m finding some of the algorithmic composition programs in the ChucK examples to be wonderful ambient background music for working.I particularly like band-o-matic for its nice FM textures - gently drifty and slow-moving. mode-o-matic is also a lot of fun, and a little more surprising in its choices, with a lot [...]

Eigenholidays

Those wacky MIT guys at Eigenradio (now, sadly, shut down due to graduation) have put together A Singular Christmas, a collection of holiday music filtered through their bizarro networks, dedicated to finding only the really different parts of the music.
Giant cloudy organ sustains, bowed church bells. String ensembles hovering on the edge of sense. Music [...]