Sound and Music

I've been having a look through last.fm and putting together some playlists, mainly as an introduction to the history of the music and sound we're involved in.

Please feel free to make contributions and to be our friend- I've tried to keep a broad range of artists, and those with playable material up.

Today I read that the UK Metropolitan Police have started to use Electrical Network Frequency[PDF] (ENF- small variations in the frequency of AC mains electricity) in order to identify or verify the time when audio recordi

One of the CDs which recently turned up at our office was marked with a sticker on the polythene with the following information:

"CONCEPTUAL ART"

NOTICE: This CD is made from an original source of P.C.M. DATA @ +1 -1 +1 -1... This will probably not be rendered as sound by a CD players[sic] DAC.

My former professor whom I studied with at Concordia University in Montreal just published a book 'Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance' on MIT Press. It's a massive heavy-weighted reader that I was pleasantly surprised to come upon at the Tate store.

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Information is Beautiful is a blog based around visualisation of information, often relating to current affairs issues.

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/?page=registration

This year the Linux Audio Conference will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from the 1st until the 4th of May. There will be lots of FREE workshops, performances, seminars, etc. about and with musical applications of FREE Linux software.

The bigger picture, indeed: by blowing up the screen of the iPhone to
tablet proportions, the iPad has become a lightning rod for discussions
about the future of computing. It has also left interface designers
with a challenge: what should interfaces look like? Can you simplify
designs, as on the iPhone, but also make use of a screen size closer to

Sonic Wire Sculptor is based on a musical instrument by Amit Pitaru which has been shown in museums and galleries world wide. A great effort has been placed in reworking the app to take advantage of the the iPhone's unique audio and input capabilities.

Life is filled with many joyous activities. One of my favourites as a teenager was spending an unhealthy amount of time following scores as I listened to music.

Papa Sangre is a new video gama that doesn't use image but sound to immerse the player.

"It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device."