Jamie Bullock has written an interesting blog post called Does live electronic music make good business sense?. While I follow his argument, and understand where it comes from, I think the topic could also be discussed from a different perspective. His main point is that the benefit-cost ratio of working with live electronics is low. [...]
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Michael Zbyszynski has made a detailed tutorial on how to make homemade spherical speakers, using IKEA salad bowls and cheap speaker elements. The speakers look great, and apparently sound ok, so this would be interesting to do in a music tech course.
Read more →Musikkteknologidagene, an annual seminar about music technology in Norway, will be organised in Bergen this year. I organised the first of these seminars in Oslo in 2005, then it moved to Trondheim as part of NoMuTe in 2006, then the Music Academy in Oslo in 2007, and now Bergen in 2008. The main idea of [...]
Read more →I am doing some “house-cleaning” on my computer, and came across the link to the OLPC Sound Samples which were announced last month. This collection covers a lot of different sounds, ranging from the Berklee samples to sets created by people in the CSound community. Obviously, not all the 10GB is equally interesting, but the [...]
Read more →The web page for our new research project called Sensing Music-related Actions is now up and running. This is a joint research project of the departments of Musicology and Informatics, and has received external funding through the VERDIKT program of the The Research Council of Norway. The project runs from July 2008 until July 2011. [...]
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