Sound,
Music, Noise & related sites
If you have a sound, music, or noise related site and want it on this
list please email admin@sysx.apana.org.au
and ask to be included (we need your URL, and a short description).
Journals and publications
- Leonardo
Music Journal - A yearly multimedia publication of the International
Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and the MIT Press, Leonardo
Music Journal (LMJ) and the LMJ CD Series publish writings and sounds by
artists from diverse areas of the world who are inventing media, implementing
developing technologies and expanding the boundaries of radical and experimental
aesthetics.
- Soundsite
- published here on System-X, a journal covering Philosophy of Sound
and Sound Art for practitioners and theorists.
- Switch
Vol.2 No.1 - This issue of Switch focuses on an area that includes
a broad spectrum of artists and theoreticians who use creative thought
and experimentation with new technologies to speak the ancient language
of "Sound" in new ways. Includes reviews of Sound Culture '96.
- WFAE
Readings: Selected Online Articles, Journals and Newsletters. - An
excellent resource for sound researchers. The material here is divided
into two collections. The first features online articles which exist on
other servers world wide and are linked here for your convenience. The
second collection features journals and other resources which have archived
articles which you can access through those specific sites.
Audio Artworks / Artists / Projects and Research
- amor &
psyche productions An experimental musical production company. atonal
noises - brutal poetry - dark-experimental listening music -
- Audio
on the Internet - Created by Victor Lombardi for the Music Technology
Program at the New York University Graduate School of Education.
- Collage
is a contributing and in-progress project about territories invested by
sound, it works in a rhizomatic manner and may appear under different forms
each time.
- Edgard
Varese - information on the famous composer.
- e-garden
- an interactive outdoor space wired with a state-of-the-art system of
infrared sensors, sound technology and computers. When visitors enter this
special zone, their movement triggers recordings of voices and speeches
from Bughouse Square orators.
- Eyephonics
- A Brisbane based media group researching sound and performance.
- House
of MEGO - new musical environments.
- Hyperaudio
- a hypertext narrative about the concepual dimensions of the new design
space of acoustic environments, using ideas from Oren and Kozma to discuss
the biases in audio that govern the form of information transmitted.
- Ian
Andrews - Sound Works, including Dormative Hypothesis and Noisefield
- Mathematics
of Sound - Visual representaion of sound, using geometrical maths.
- Modem
Symphony - sound bites, rampant samples & vocal mutations
- On
A Sound Body an essay dealing with the political nature of sound.
- Polymorphous Space
- an experimental site for Micro Radio and VRML.
- Scanner
- techno-data pirate whose scavenging of the eletronic communications highways
provides the raw materials for his aural collages of electronic music and
'found' conversations.
- Simulationspace
- Mosaic of mobile Datasounds - interactive walk-in sound data space
supplied by Net resources, from knobotic research.
- Sonic
Architecture Since 1972, Bill and Mary Buchen have collaborated to
integrate interaction with the visual arts in a multi-disciplinary form
they define as Sonic Architecture
- Sonic
Ethos - "Technologically-mediated sound experiments of the past
one hundred years have much relevance, even today, in the age of digital
media. New Media, in general, remains deaf to the multiple possibilities
of sound for communication and aesthetic expression. So we shall first
consider a possible rhetorical analysis of sound, and briefly examine the
history of sound art."
- Surrogate
Signal by Red Asphalt Nomad is a recombinant radio action for CB radio,
scanners, turntables and internet.
- Sonifying
the Mandelbrot set - This exercise maps numbers into simple pitches.
The numbers are derived from the portion of the Mandelbrot set seen here.
The sound files are simple illustrations of data sonification.
- Turing
Tuning - A real-time confrontation of machine logic and human intuition.
-genetic engineering, permanent sound-processing with emergent rules, for
live performance- by knobotic research.
- Wormwood
- experimental music trio, whose music combines industrial, electro-acoustic,
and modern classical approaches.
Organisations
- ARCANA - Artists
Research, Composers Aid & Network Access : the first server in the
World Wide Web for contemporary, new & experimental music of German
based composers.
- ARS
ACUSTICA International - serves as a node for the exchange of radio
art productions,project proposals, for the exchange of information about
activities and events in the field of media-art in the different countries,
for the discussion of current trends in the theory and practice of radio-art
and connected fields, and for the realisation of co-productions.
- Ars
Acustica - Links providing artists and others with information about
current activity in composition, sound design, and the construction of
sound installations.
- Australian
Screen Sound Guild - Represents the profession of screen sound in film,
television, multimedia and other related audio industries within Australia.
The ASSG aims to recognise, maintain and promote original and creative
work, to encourage high standards and to facilitate study and research
into the knowledge techniques and technology of screen sound production.
- Eye-Phonics
TheEye-Phonics project is a 12-month investigation of multimedia, multi-artpractices,
with a particular emphasis on sound and its relation to performance.
- The
Free Music Philosophy - an alternate way to distribute music.
- HarvestWorks
- a not-for-profit arts organization which administers several programs
serving artists using media technology, including sound.
- KunstRadio
- a site for the artistic and theoretical discourse on the rapidly changing
mediascape and the effects of digitalisation on our culture.
- MuSICA -
MUSIC BRAIN INFORMATION DATABASE. When telnetting: login as mbi
with password: nammbi . Musica maintains a data base
of scientific research (references and abstracts) on music as related to
behavior,the brain and allied fields, in order to foster interdisciplinary
knowledge.
- The
Pauline Oliveros Foundation - offers comprehensive information about
its artists, projects, events, and activities such as the Deep Listening
Band which explores alternative listening strategies, unusual acoustic
environments, expanded instrument technologies and new relationships with
musicians as well as audiences.
- Sonarchy - a website
designed to engage a visitor in the pleasure of listening through the internet.
All sorts of content are present and worldwide contributions are encouraged.
Sonarchy is a project of The Jack Straw Foundation in Seattle,WA
- SoundCulture 96
- Information about the event and how to contribute.
- Sonic Arts
Network Sonic Arts Network exists to further - through creation, dissemination
and research - the creative use of technology which is transforming the
nature and practice of music and its access in education and the wider
community.
- Soundprint Media Center
- The primary purpose of SMCI is to provide the public with information
through the production and distribution of radio documentaries and other
public affairs and cultural programs; the development and dissemination
of audio, video and multimedia programs and ancillary print educational
materials; and research, editorial and production support services.
- STEIM
- Studio for Electro Instrumental Music (Amsterdam)dedicated to live performance.
Its work is primarily geared towards the development of new musical instruments
and software for performance.
- World
Forum for Acoustic Ecology - an organization of several hundred individuals
and institutions with diverse professional interests and expertise, who
share a common mission in the study of natural and human made soundscapes.
Electronic and contemporary music
Links to links
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