John Cage - Water Walk. A rare piec of footage of a young John Cage performing the piece Water Walk on US TV show, “I have a secret”. The attitude of the presenter to the music is very interesting.

SynC now have a page on MySpace - www.myspace.com/syncsonic . But in reality if you have this blog on your RSS reader you will get it all here - music - gig listings etc.

Cheers

Garth

SynC are performing in the New York Electronic Arts Festival on June 4, 2007. The gig is being produced by EMF and is publicised here >>> EMF Productions: Electronics & Virtuosity

nicolaj kirisits at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna has collected online an excellent listing list

lots of good music to listen to in chronological order

presentations from students in WS 03/04

The University of East Anglia has developed an excellent Sonic Arts Research Archive. If you look to the right side of the page you will see a list of artists - selecting people here presents a rich collection of references to works, scores etc

At De Montfort University, Professor Leigh Landy has been developing the ElectroAcoustic Resource Site which has an excellent range of information included in their index and a fabulous bibliography.

Both these sites make very valuable reading and are invaluable when undertaking research in this area. They even list some of my own papers

Columbia University has developed an excellent collection of references to Masterpiece’s of 20th-Century Multi-channel Tape Music. This link leads to the Denis Smalley work Vortex. There are some of the graphical score elements shown here and an interesting interview with the composer.

More on Denis Smalley can be found:
electroCD
City University
Sonic Arts Research Archive

A short film about what the foley artist does, created by Vancouver Film School graduates of the VFS Sound Design program

Manipulating sound until it seemed to be something that existed in real space. This refers to playing back existing recordings through a speaker or speakers in real-world acoustic situations, and recording that playback with microphones so that the new recording takes on the acoustic characteristics of the place it was “re-recorded.” [via filmsound.org]

Since joining Dolby Laboratories in 1969, Ioan Allen (Senior Vice President ) has been directly involved in the origination and development of all the major audio advancements emanating from the Dolby film program. During his tenure at the company, Mr. Allen has spearheaded the introduction of many of Dolby’s breakthrough audio formats-from Dolby Stereo in 1974 to Dolby SR in 1986 and Dolby Digital in 1992—each representing another step forward in the company’s successful transition from analog audio pioneer to digital entertainment leader. (posted to YouTube by usoproject)