To work around the proprietary whims of digital audio software developers and laptop processor limitations during the mid- and late-1990s, a small band of technically-minded people, including the electronic musician
Blitter, pulled together in the late 1990s to engineer the open-source
OPEN DSP EZ-Kit platform, a 16-bit computer designed entirely with a focus on low cost and extensible control and DSP arithmetic capabilities. While this project and
similar commercial offerings never seemed to gain the critical mass needed to sustain long-term interest, perhaps the new
Arduino hardware project from MIT's
Processing hardware group may gain a foothold with
Processing and
Pure Data audio software hobbyists and artists alike, allowing the creative community to extend, enhance and share inventive uses of new technology. Arduino's use has
already begun in
fascinating museum installations around the world, and has become a part of this year's
SONAR and
Ars Electronica festivals.
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Aug 12, 2006 -
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A video broadcast of György Ligeti's
Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes (AVI, French), with
helpful background on the controversial piece located here. For those who know French, you may also be interested in 1993's
György Ligeti: Portrait, A Documentary by Michel Follin, showing Ligeti as "the displaced cosmopolitan", through the metaphor of train ride through the European countryside. These and many other avant-garde films can be found at
Ubuweb, including features with
William Burroughs, a recent "
performance" of Cage's 4'33", and Varése and Le Corbusier's 1958 World Fair collaboration
Poême électronique, a 400-speaker soundspace installation predating
later, more experimental feedback pieces.
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Jul 2, 2006 -
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