BEATBOX BATTLE TV | BEATBOX BATTLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP – INTERVIEW – SHOWCASE – FREESTYLE – TUTORIAL Mozart's Dice Game Harkive.org - The World Is Listening... again. The Imitation Archive | The National Museum of Computing The sounds and ecology of 70 years of computing is the focus of a new Arts Council funded project at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC). The public will be able to listen in as the project unfolds and later in the year a series of extraordinary new musical compositions will be published. Award-winning sound artist and composer Matt Parker will start his project, The Imitation Archive, this week and he will produce a permanent sound archive of the restored and recreated working machines at the Museum. Once recorded and archived, Parker will use the audio material to create a series of interlinked musical compositions that will reflect the development of computing from the code-breaking Colossus computer up to the present day. Sneak previews of the work will be made available on the TNMOC website www.tnmoc.org, and the Museum’s Facebook, Google+ and Twitter accounts. Matt Parker will be giving a talk on his work at TNMOC on Thursday 16 April 2015 at 7.30pm. Notes To Editors
A comeback for the humble cassette? - Features - Music - The Independent His nonplussed response was delightful. We were witnessing the obsolescence of technology at first hand, right there; as we explained how it worked it almost felt like we were experts on an episode of Antiques Roadshow. (Although sadly in the item in question was worth almost nothing.) Two brothers, Benny and Rafi Fine, have seen the viral potential of this kind of thing, and have recently started a series on YouTube called Kids React To Technology. While vinyl has experienced a hipster resurgence in popularity – 780,000 albums were sold last year, the highest tally since 1997 – the cassette, with its stern instructions to "spool to end of tape before playing other side", looks hilariously retro. Some people lament its passing, naturally. Nor, indeed, did the recipient. You can see why that idea might still appeal to musicians; one label called Tapeworm has been celebrating the act of listening for many years with its runs of 250 cassette-only releases.
BBC Radio 4 - In Search of the Black Mozart, Episode 1 Boil the Frog Boil the Frog lets you create a playlist of songs that gradually takes you from one music style to another. It's like the proverbial frog in the pot of water. If you heat up the pot slowly enough, the frog will never notice that he's being made into a stew and jump out of the pot. With a Boil the frog playlist you can do the same, but with music. How does it work? To create a Boil The Frog playlist, just type in the names of two artists and a playlist will be generated that takes you gradually, step by step, from the first artist to the second artist. If you are a logged-in Rdio subscriber you will hear full tracks, otherwise you will hear excerpts. Here are some examples How does it really work? To create this app, The Echo Nest artist similarity info is used to build an artist similarity graph of about 100,000 of the most popular artists. When a playlist between two artists is created, the graph is used to find the path between the two artists. Who made this?
Sleevage » Music, Art, Design. About the Virtual Choir – Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir The Virtual Choir is a global phenomenon, creating a user-generated choir that brings together singers from around the world and their love of music in a new way through the use of technology. Singers record and upload their videos from locations all over the world. Each one of the videos is then synchronised and combined into one single performance to create the Virtual Choir. It began in 2009 as a simple experiment in social media when one young woman – a fan of Eric’s music – recorded a video of herself singing “Sleep” and shared it on YouTube. Moved by the video, Eric responded by sending a call out to his online fans to purchase Polyphony’s recording, record themselves singing along to it, and upload the result. The Virtual Choir has been like a drop of water on the surface of a still lake, rippling the musical and online landscape to reach millions. The first-ever Virtual Youth Choir launched in 2014 featuring 2,292 young singers from 80 countries across the world.
International Society of Musicians for Artwhistling Performed whistling is not a new idea, but its role has been rather limited. Since the days of music hall & vaudeville, it has rarely ventured beyond imitating singing or birds, while appreciated chiefly in terms of novelty. Finally in the 1990s, a few individuals began to coalesce around a different model — one based on the music community at large and how all instruments are approached. By adapting the same attitude toward our own whistling, many have discovered much broader possibilities. This includes the repertoires of multiple instruments, of different cultures, of different centuries, new music for whistling, and different musical traditions. And, while not all of us take to the stage, some have achieved convincing results (hear samples). We also believe that this way of approaching human whistling holds significant potential for the learning, performance, teaching, and spread of art music as a whole. Definition of Artwhistling™ Our Society Our Mission is thus: Join Us
BBC Radio 3 - Max Richter - Sleep 1927 Erik Satie: a life less ordinary Film-makers have missed a trick with the life of Erik Satie. A biopic would have pretty much everything: the heart-warming story of a talented but strange man whose early failure and obscurity led to late-in-life celebrity; some acrobatic sex (literally – his one-and-only girlfriend had previously run away to the circus); strong language, violence, scandal and litigation (he was famously irascible, and was imprisoned over a spat with a music critic); the glamour of Paris, 1885-1925; more than walk-on roles for people like Stravinsky, Picasso and Diaghilev; the decadent Montmartre cabaret scene; oh, and a fabulous, ready-made score by the main man and his friends Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc. With no such film yet in existence (Mike Leigh? Stephen Frears?), and with the 150th anniversary of Satie’s birth approaching, I thought I’d write in the meantime a musical theatre piece – a “theatrecital”? - for actor and pianist. The stories of his peculiarity are legion.