I have always loved the The Bowed Piano Ensemble. They herald from Music at Colorado College, under the direction of Stephen Scott

There is also an interview on New Music Box and a nice video of a performance HERE

This is a crazy video of Mark Smart using the Continuum Fingerboard to drive 2 massive Tesla Coils, one bass and one melody, as part of a concert at the University of Illinois, Urbana Haken Audio - Performance ExamplesMark Smart performs live in Urbana, Illinois on March 7, 2008. This outdoor concert was part of a student-run open house for the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois

I was sorry to hear of the passing of Bebe Barron, Pioneering Electronic Composer.Create Digital Music have published an excellent Obituary with a number of other links including a detailed article on  Matrixsynth

Edgar Varese  ”Poem Electronique”

 

  

This composition was first presented at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair with 425 speakers placed throughout the famous Philips pavilion, the placement of the speakers and design of the building gave the spectators a feeling of being housed within a concrete, silver seashell. A giant model of the atom hung from the ceiling and the sound & imagery premiered to standing room only crowd, it must have been quite a spectacle. Varese is considered to be the “father of electronic music”, Henry Miller described him as the “stratospheric colossus of sound.” When Philips (Philips electronic company) approached Le Corbusier to design a building for the fair, Le Corbusier said, “I will not make a pavilion for you (Philips) but an Electronic Poem and a vessel containing the poem; light, color, image, rhythm and sound joined together in an organic synthesis.”This page provides some more info as does google Edgard Varese: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary (Biography of Varese)Space Calculated in Seconds (a book about the Philips Pavillion)  

Sue Harding lives in the country town of Waga Waga - here she is talking about her Dot Matrix Music, which is great!!

Nakamura et al  

 

This doco style video covers “onkyo” genre feedback music from Japan.Featuring Sachiko M & Toshimaru Nakamura.Includes interview with subtitles.

From episode 4 of Subsonics 

One of, if not the most adventurous of sound creators within the Tokyo music scene since the mid-eighties is Otomo Yoshihide, turntable and guitar player. From a melting and forging process of sound, he weaves entirely new worlds of explosive possibility from this mixture upon which he continues to expand.Otomo has explored the nature of sound in many different ways during his career. Over the last few years, Otomo has become increasingly interested in minimal wave-based electronics, as heard in his Filament and I.S.O projects.

I can’t tell which is funnier, this long-hated cheesebag-anthem turned into a much more interesting, atonal mess in front of thousands of paying customers or the hilarious soldiering on of the Van Halens as they look at each other from inside the trainwreck. Eddie tries to transpose on the fly and match the wildly stuffed up keyboards but the great thing there is the difference in pitch

This is a cool video of a Rubix Cube driven music sequencer - you can read more about it here

The Monks - A rare clip from the 60’s - live - music - the - monks - german - tv - Singing & Dancing - Celebrities - ?

Probably the most eagerly awaited release of any musical interface in a decade or more, the Tenori-On is presented in a Sonic State video, presented by Yamaha’s Yu Nishibori.

Seems like an extraordinary year for innovation in musical interfaces with the Nintendo Wii controller being adapted by a number of people for music performance and now the Tenori-on