Monday, January 20, 2003

BUILD IT: ELECTRONIC SOUND! Digital Audio Workstation Construction We're talking nuts and bolts here: Operating System, core plumbing, audio components, software, and additional gear. Good article!                                                       http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,822090,00.asp The Synth Zone Links to synthesizer manufacturers, gear makers, music software makers, and fan sites devoted to all of the above, organized in categories for easy searching.                                                                  http://www.synthzone.com/   CODE IT: ELECTRONIC SOUND! Java Sound, an Introduction First in a series of articles that will teach you how to use the Java Sound API.   http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/1565671 CSOUND Csound is a FREE, cross-platform software synthesis program. It is a programming language designed and optimized for sound rendering and signal processing. In Csound, the complexity of your patches is limited by your knowledge, interest, and need, but never by the language itself. There are no limits to the amount of oscillators or filters one can use. For instance, a 22,050 oscillator additive synthesizer with 1024 stage envelope generators on each is merely a copy-and-paste operation. The same goes for a 1 million voice granular texture! Have you ever dreamed of sounds such as these? Well in Csound you can. And in Csound these dreams can come true! Csound is also completely modular, so that any function in Csound can be used in an array of ways.                                               http://www.csounds.com/ Music Programs This is the motherlode: links to about a jillion music/audio/sound processing programs. Some of the links are stale, but there are so many of them it won't matter.                                                         http://www.mtv411.com/music-programs.html   LEARN ABOUT IT: ELECTRONIC SOUND! This by no means a complete listing. I have a preference for old school spacemusic from the so-called Berlin School, as exemplified by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel), ambient music (Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Rapoon, Brian Eno), and minimalist classical music (Terry Riley, Steve Reich, John Adams, Phillip Glass) 120 Years of Electronic Music: Links                                     http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/links/links.html Resources relevant to Computer Music                                                                http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/e-links.htm The Hyperreal Music Archive A BIG site covering many types of electronic music. A major jumping off point. The epsilon link focuses on the ambient side of the equation.                                                                 http://music.hyperreal.org/                                                                        http://music.hyperreal.org/epsilon/links/ Syngate: the gate to synthesizer based music                                                              http://www.syngate.net/ Instrumental Weekly: Ambient/Instrumental reviews and resources                                                    http://www.instrumentalweekly.com SLEEPBOT Confusorating interface, look for the ambience for the masses link for much data.                http://www.sleepbot.com/                                                                               http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/   DIG IT: ELECTRONIC SOUND! Listen to deeply ambient sounds from the safety of your cyberpod. Of course there are many more places to dive in and listen, these are a three of my favorites.                                       http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/broadcast/                                                                       http://spaceradio.fm/                                                                                                  http://www.steveroach.com/ (there are some links to mp3 and RealAudio)   BUY IT: ELECTRONIC SOUND! This is America after all.                                                                                                                                                                Backroads Music                                                                                                                                    Celestial Harmonies                                                                                                                                Echoes                                                                                                                                                   Groove Unlimited                                                                                                                                          Hearts of Space                                                                                                                                       Hypnos                                                                                                                                                     Synth Music Direct 1:14:16 PM    comment [] The Dividing Line "If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and detroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn 10:27:49 AM    comment [] "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." Bertrand Russell 10:18:32 AM    comment [] "In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic innocence of living in the United States: a tragic sense of life. Such a sense doesn't force us to live in a closed somber cone of depression and futility; it urges the opposite. The tragic sense opens a human being to the exuberant joys of the present. To laughter, carnality, the comical varieties of love, to music and art, to the small human glories of the day." Pete Hamill 10:12:44 AM    comment [] "When was the last time you did something for the first time?" 8:59:09 AM    comment []

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