Here is a brief walk through of the The Simultaneous Translator which is unfortunately a Windoze only based audio interface, but it enables anyone to load audio streams and manipulate them in real time on the Internet. SimTrans makes the delays and fluctuations of the Internet visible and audible. The Internet becomes your collaborator as you create your mix, and the instability you usually try to avoid becomes a tool for creation. Distance and delay are manifest within the interface numerically and as a series of sliding heads; there is also a link to Google Earth where you can watch the dynamic flight of data travel between yourself and the audio source.

SynC are performing CyberDidj Australis at the openning night concert for the New Interfaces for Music Expression conferenceNIME 2007 in New York on Thursday (June 7th) at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, and are also performing a full concert on June 4 as part of the The New York Electronic Arts festival, which is a month-long series of concerts, panels, workshops, and presentations centered on the cutting edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology. Featuring artists from Trimpin to They Might Be Giants, the festival concerts promise to draw a huge audience with a wide spectrum of music lovers.

There is an excellent set of Ableton Live tutorials available from VTC here

This Wendy Carlos interview on the American Music Societies web site makes very interesting listening.

Also on this site is an interesting interview with Annie Gosfield , whose music for acoustic instruments and samplers is driven from a classical and rock background, making for a hybridity that is unusual and pleaseing to the ear. Frank Oteri says:

I still remember the first time I heard the opening of the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ recording of the second movement from Annie Gosfield’s The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory. It was an extremely visceral and unsettling experience. I was listening to the CD before I looked at who was playing and what they were playing, so I wasn’t exactly sure about what I was listening to or how it was done.

I thought I was hearing people smashing up a piano, but I soon learned that all those odd sounds were being generated on a keyboard sampler.

These are both very interesting interviews and illustrate the openess of the American Music Centre to the breadth of contemporary practice. It is also worth having a listen to their online radio station

Symbolic sound have done it again - this time we have an excellent implementation of the Wii remote on the Capybara/Kyma system from Symbolic Sound - check out the VIDEO of Carla doing some highly resolved examples to illustrate the application.