One of my favorite composers is the Argentinean born, British composer Alejandro Vinao

There is an interesting interview with him in the Spring edition of Discourses in Music. There are a bunch of Audio Excerpts on his website.

One of the things he does very well is meld the acoustic and the electronic

Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with a Cluster of Eight PlayStation 3s - an interesting project using PS3’s for supercomputing, on a grid running Linux - More information on the PS3 Gravity Grid

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