Android’s putting up a fight with Apple on the music scene
Highlights from the latest Android platform release – Gingerbread
The 2.3 operating system opens its doors to music programming with low latency hardware level recording and encoding. Built in AAC and AMR encoding as well as resident audio effects processing such as reverb, visualization and eq that can be applied globally or any of the multiple audio streams that can be run. This gives applications access to powerful audio controls and effects from native code.
Amazing 22 laptop orchestra
An ensemble of 22 laptops performing under the direction of composer/mix-master Miguel Frasconi, on Thursday, Dec 16, 2010. This was the end-of-semester concert of Bard College’s “Workshop in Software for Composition and Performance,” taught by Miguel Frasconi.
The participants this semester (fall 2010) were: Laura Bradford • Penn Chan Jake Coan • Dylan Coburn Lucas Denton • Dani Dobkin John Garlid • Charlie Heller Alex Hood • Zack Khalil Shahrod Khalkhali • Elias Moose Marcel Reid-Jaques • Steve Reiman Sean Rucewicz • David Silberberg Nate Smallwood • Charlotte Su Will Tesdell • Joe Tisdall Elon Ullman • Jed Wolf Miguel Frasconi, director & mix-master
Quick Testing of a Concussor Drum System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrdz1aYjSo
Side-Line Music Awards – the results
Side-Line Music Awards are now ready, each year Side-Line nominates the best songs, bands and acts in the electro, synth, EBM etc space and now the final results are here, as voted by the Side-Line readers. And it seems Recoil got a fair share of the prices
The results of the Side-Line Music Awards 2010 are in. Yes, it did take us a few days more than we had originally planned. But then again, we never imagined getting stuck in London and Brussels the past week due to the unexpected harsh winter conditions circling over Europe. We spent the last two days counting the votes and deleting the invalid ones. But before we give the results, we really want to thank all those readers who have cast their votes in the past two election rounds. You were among the 39,203 people (!!) to have cast a valid vote. That is an all-time record for Side-Line.
Best Band:
- Combichrist (5,391)
- Unter Null (4,985)
- Front Line Assembly (3,818)
- Front 242 (3,803)
- Mesh (2,756)
- Recoil (2,542)
- Suicide Commando (2,459)
- Hocico (2,327)
- Depeche Mode (2,314)
- Leaether Strip (2,201)
- A-ha (2,227)
- Kant Kino (1,837)
- De/Vision (1,571)
- Edge Of Dawn (589)
- Diorama (383)
Best Album:
- Recoil – “Selected” (10,442)
- Front Line Assembly – “IED” (8,252)
- Unter Null – “Moving On” (7,898)
- OMD – “History Of Modern” (6,908)
- Angelspit – “Larva Pupa Tank Coffin” (5,811)
Best Single:
- Covenant – “Lightbringer” (10,330)
- Combichrist – “Scarred” (8,983)
- Rotersand – “Waiting To Be Born” (7,038)
- In Strict Confidence – “Silver Bullets” (6,825)
- I:Scintilla – “Prey On You” (6,027)
Best Label:
- Mute (13,072)
- Alfa Matrix (10,736)
- Metropolis/Dependent (10,479)
- Trisol (4,916)
Best Live Band:
- Recoil (14,545)
- Combichrist (9,107)
- Depeche Mode (6,032)
- Front Line Assembly (4,851)
- Leaether Strip (4,668)
So what is the Audioprom really?
Audioprom is an audio sequencer and live performance application for the iPad.
“We just launched Audioprom, a super intuitive audio sequencer app for the iPad. Audioprom doesn’t look or feel like other iPad sequencers out there because it doesn’t simulate popular physical interfaces from 90’s drum machines. We built it from the ground up for the multitouch screen.
It’s been a labor of love. We built it because we wanted it for ourselves and now we hope others might like it enough to buy it so we get to keep working on it.
We posted some how-to and demo videos at audioprom.cwandt.com.
We are CW&T, a Brooklyn based art and design duo. We make hard and soft things for fun and to feed ourselves. This is our first go at an iPad app. cwandt.com”
You can find more info and videos on http://audioprom.cwandt.com/
Prototype Buchla format Zeroscillators in action
This video shows one of several prototype Buchla format Zeroscillators working
along beautifully with the other modules in a 200e system.
The Buchla 200e analog/digital hybrid system is an incredible achievement
that can now be complimented with the addition of Cyndustries award winning
liquid smooth pure analog Zeroscillators, the ~only~ oscillators with the musicality
and complex modulation opportunities of through-zero technology.
Limited Buchla format editions are special order only, please contact Cynthia directly.
The 1st iPad album released
UK-based electronic musician Mark Jenkins has notified us about what he thinks is to be the world’s first all-iPad CD, The iPad Album. Taking up the fight with Gorillaz I presume then 
Jenkins is London-based musician and the author of the book Analog Synthesizers. The iPad Album, a retro analog Berlin School work, was released on October 9th and is available on Groove.nl.
The video above comes from his launch performance of The iPad Album at the E-Live Festival.
Tracks:
- Pulsator [5:30]
- Resurgence [6:40]
- Matrisequencer [5:20]
- Tangential [4:30]
- Schwarzenider [5:35]
- Sequencefried [6:28]
- Wavecycle [3:41]
- Micronicised [5:26]
Kemper Profiling Amplifier
The Kemper Profiling Amplifier – Orientation Film #1
see the maker explain the Kemper Profiling Amplifier concept, watch out for more video coming!
Free Casio VL1 Tone Emulator
Casio VL1 – http://www.vstplanet.com/Instruments/…
Developer: http://www.polyvalens.com/vl1/index.html
Free music from The Kick
Swedish electronic rock artist The Kick (David Sundqvist) gives away his new album “Anomalies” for free as a Christmas gift. The album will be available from December 24 at www.thekick.net. The Kick is signed to SubSpace Communications, released the album “Metal Heart” in 2009 and is preparing another album for 2011 as well. “Anomalies” contains previously unreleased songs.
– I had a couple of songs that didn’t make it on to the first record, mainly because they didn’t fit the mood of the album, David says.
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