I have been reading up on hypertext and hypermedia theory and looked around for papers on hypermusic. One of the few papers I found on the topic was by John Maxwell Hobbs describing his 1998 piece Web Phases.
Read more →In a rather bizarre Wikipedia discussion about the flatness of Earth, I found an interesting statement: – At the scale of less than 10^-9 meters or so, the earth is a space has an undefinable shape. – From about 10^-9 meters through to about 10^4 meters, the earth is flat. – From about 10^4 meters [...]
Read more →Georg Hajdu has just released a new version of his Quintet.net performance system. “Quintet.net is an interactive network performance environment invented and developed by composer and computer musician Georg Hajdu. It enables up to five performers to play music over the Internet under the control of a “conductor.” The environment, which was programmed with the [...]
Read more →The CNMAT people have made a forum at the Open Sound Control site. OSC is a way of communicating musical information between devices, much in the same way as MIDI, but without all the problems of MIDI (low resolution etc). Although OSC seems to have gained ground in the research community, I think we all [...]
Read more →The concept of mirror neurons was discovered at the University of Parma, Italy some years back, and shows how we have the same neural activitiy whether we do a movement ourselves or just watch someone else doing it. NOVA has made an excellent documentary about mirror neurons.
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