Alessandro Capozzo - Ad Libitum, 2004

“Ad Libitum is a simple web project designed to generate simple automatic (and pure random) counterpoints. It consists in three flash objects embedded in a html page, inside each module three cells try to connect random points, when a cell will reach a point it play an audio sample. Users could only turn on or off modules to get a thicker or lighter sonic texture. Samples are divided into three pentatonic sets, any set has a different timbre (one for each cell), because using pentatonic modes gives always consonant intervals (both harmonic and melodic) an euphonic soundscape is the final result.”

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fonte: www.abstract-codex.net

Music of the sun recorded

Astronomers at the University of Sheffield have managed to record for the first time the eerie musical harmonies produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the sun.
They found that huge magnetic loops that have been observed coiling away from the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument.
In other cases they behave more like soundwaves as they travel through a wind instrument.
Using satellite images of these loops, which can be over 60,000 miles long, the scientists were able to recreate the sound by turning the visible vibrations into noises and speeding up the frequency so it is audible to the human ear.

Fonte: www.telegraph.co.uk

Norman McLaren - Pen point percussion

An introduction to the hand-drawn sounds of Norman McLaren. Prepared by Don Peters and Lorne Batchelor. 1951.

Welte Mignon e pianoforti meccanici

Piano Ibach-Welte del 1924

Il pianoforte meccanico automatico Welte-Mignon fu il primo strumento musicale che rese possibile l’ampia riproduzione autentica di brani musicali per pianoforte. Lo strumento impiegava, come supporto sonoro, strisce perforate di carta chiamato rullo di carta per note o rullo per pianoforte e fu una ricerca comune di Edwin Welte e Karl Bockisch. In questo modo era possibile riprodurre con alta fedeltà il brano musicale di un pianista, e la dinamica sonora.


Carl Reinecke plays John Field's Nocturne No 4, on Hupfeld piano roll 51813, recorded c.1907


QRS 2108 I've Got Another Lovin Mamma (Callin' Me Daddy Now) - Fox Trot Played by J. Russel Robinson on 1912 Stroud Metrostyle-Themodist player piano.





Fonti: wikipedia.org
http://website.lineone.net/~agr/a2.html

Orbitone

Orbitone is an ambient interface for musical interaction by means of tangibles and user motion. It was developed with vvvv, reacTIVision, OpenCV and Ableton Live.

Media System Design,
Media Arts & Science,
University of Applied Science
Darmstadt, Germany
2009-2010

Fonte: http://orbitone.de/

Jonas Friedemann Heuer - Clavilux 2000

An interactive instrument for generative music visualization done with vvvv.

Jörg Piringer - Opto organ

Derek Holzer - Tonewheels

Sintesi sonora

Radici del generativo: suono, forma e struttura, informazione