Better support for music and audio is still evolving (as well as lots of stability and compatibility improvements), but I have faith open-source coding tool Processing site | on cdmu | on cdmo could yield wonderful new visual interfaces for music. Daniel Piker has the latest addition, inspired by a recent post here: FizzyNumberMusicMaker ...

WGBH Network is hosting a lecture and debate on the limits of intelligent machines. their site has an mp3 download version, streaming audio and video version. the debate features David Gelernter & Ray Kurzweil (inventor, writer) and is moderated by Rodney Brooks. "A Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Alan Turing's Seminal Paper "On Computable Numbers" featuring a debate on the limits of intelligent machines and a lecture on Turing's contributions." the transcript is available at KurzweilAI.net too (attached) info via the generative.net mail list

I’m a fan of Glenn Marshall’s music videos and his latest video shows why. It’s a generative video exploration of Radiohead’s Bodysnatchers, from In Rainbows. Heres how Marshall explains how the audio is interacting with the generative video: 1. Bass guitar - makes the red shading on the red zeno pulsate. 2. Lead guitar - affects intensity of inner ...

Richard Stallman's recent description of 'the cloud' as 'hype' and a 'trap' seems to have stirred up a lot of commentary, but not a lot of clear discussion of the problems Stallman raised. This isn't surprising- the term 'the cloud' has always been vague. (It was hard to resist saying 'cloudy.' ;) When people say 'the cloud' they are really lumping at least four 'cloud types' together. traditional applications, hosted elsewhere Probably the most common type of 'cloud' is a service that takes a traditional software functionality and moves it to remotely hosted, (typically) web-delivered servers. Gmail and salesforce.com are like this- fairly traditional email and CRM applications, 'just' moved to the web. If Stallman's 'hype' claim is valid anywhere, it is here. Administration and maintenance costs are definitely lower when an expert like Google funds and runs the server, and reliability may improve as well. But the core functionality of these apps, and the ability to access data over a network, have been pres

A U D I O B U L B : EXPLORATORY MUSIC // 02.07

1 Two 25 CD boxes of Ultre's fast selling debut album have been found following an office move.New reviews can be found here :: http://www.audiobulb.com/albums/Ultre-Details/ultre-reviews.htm

Ultre has also featured in Clash - Volume 2/Issue 6 Jan 2007 & has been interviewed for the excellent Norwegian webzine Hissig http://hissig.no/intervjuer/ultre/

On the distribution front - Audiobulb has recently teamed up with Art Union to extend our reach to Japan. We'd like to welcome all our Japanese friends who have helped to make this album such a successful one over there.

UK shops should be receiving their copies any day via our distribution links with Cargo Records.

2 Ultre & Flat-e live @ Optronica - London on Friday 16th March. Expect a multi-sensory onslaught as Ultre teams up with his Flat-e sibling Robin to concoct a dynamic live performance alongside other quality acts - such as Fennesz, Speedy J and Peter Greenaway. For more information visit http://ww

Bitnotic presents "Chill" - a FREE generative ambient music player for Mac. It plays unique ambient music 24/7 on your computer! You can also save songs as AIFF or Wav to use later. Even as MIDI to...

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Leonardo/OLATS, co sponsor of YASMIN, is pleased to announce Cybernetics Serendipity Redux

http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/viewtopic.php?t=4385 A moderated discussion on YASMIN

Beginning September 1 2008 Discussion On YASMIN, led by Ranulph Glanville.

Moderators Ranulph Glanville, Paul Brown, Paul Pangaro 40 years ago, Jasia Reichart's exhibition "Cybernetic Serendipity" showed that cybernetics, computing and art had arrived. 40 years later, while computers and art remain, cybernetics has nearly vanished, although there is a reviving interest in art. In celebrating Cybernetic Serendipity we have the chance to re-open the debate, to reconsider the relationship particularly between cybernetics and art, and to do so taking into account the way that cybernetics has developed during its period of near invisibility. So what is new in cybernetics, and how can that inform art: and, what is new in art, and how can that inform cybernetics. read more

It will work with any MIDI capable synth, software or hardware, which means it works with most anything like Live, GarageBand or Logic as well as your outboard synths....My outboard synths with MIDI are long gone, and I do next to no work with software synths, but it does look interesting....

Nodal is a free generative Macintosh software application for composing music.

It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph.

The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed ...

Glenn Marshall’s video for the Boards of Canada track, Music Is Math.

An animation created with Processing, which is being used by more and more people to create generative animations for music videos.

via Califaudio

Fischer & Maus: Reflection, Widrig & Booshan: Binaural

5 Days Off MEDIA: Frozen

Wed 2 through Sat 26 July 2008

Melkweg Mediaroom & Paradiso, Amsterdam

Andreas Nicolas Fischer & Benjamin Maus (DE)

Leander Herzog (CH)

Marius Watz

Daniel Widrig & Shajay Booshan (UK)

Sound: Freiband / Frans de Waard (NL)

Sound: Alexander Rishaug (NO)

Frozen (part of the 5 Days Off MEDIA festival) is an ...

Aram Bartholl / Tim Schork - Mesne

This evening will see the second part of the public presentations of Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the Screen. While the focus is architecture, the speakers will come at the topic from very different angles, with more focus on virtual environments and parametric form than on housing units and retail ...

NODE08 - Forum for Digital Arts

NODE08 is a new festival for digital art set to to take place in Frankfurt April 5-12. The near-final programme is now out, and it is shaping up to be a powerful event indeed. While the topic is realtime art in general, the event is loosely based around the ...

Skot (Frank / Gmachl): aka (audio by General Magic) from Tina Frank on Vimeo.

We have posted about the Vienna scene and the Austrian Abstracts here on previous occasions, but the video work that was central to that movement has generally not been available for viewing online. Therefore, it’s with great pleasure we see that Tina ...

Serero Architects: EIFFEL_DNA, generative design for extension of Eiffel Tower

Update: It’s now clear that the news about the Serero project for the Eiffel Tower is a hoax, as seen on Archinect and NY Times. Thanks to Sarrach for the tip.

Good news for anyone planning to visit that Parisian icon, the Eiffel Tower: A competition for ...

Brandon Morse: Procedural animation

The stark videos of Brandon Morse present the viewer with excercises in tension, set tableaux in which structures morph and twist under physical constraints. Stripped-down architectural forms that ought to exhibit the rigidity of highrise buildings instead engage in a tug-of-war, the result of a string simulation distributing kinetic force through a ...