Daydream.fm
"It's basically a place where you can build and share ambience--and not just as in ambient music, but as a package of soundscape, music, and visual."
Daydream.fm
Chaos Atlantis →
"Chaos Atlantis is a realtime sonification engine, a program that converts data into sound. It is currently using data generated by NOAA buoy 41047 located in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda. This buoy measures several variables including water temperature, air temperature, wave height, wind speed, and much more."
Chaos Atlantis excerpt on Soundcloud
iPhone App: Air
"Air is a generative audio-visual work created by musician/software designer Peter Chilvers and Irish vocalist Sandra O'Neil. Based on concepts developed by Brian Eno, with whom Chilvers created Bloom, Air assembles vocal and piano samples into a beautiful, still, and ever changing composition, which is always familiar, but never the same."
Air (iTunes Link)
in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word project
This is kind of nice. "In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls."
"Swine Flu Hemagglutinin"
Not really what I'd call "ambient" music, but interesting nonetheless.
The algorithm I used is a bit complicated, but just in case you’re curious: since the gene is expressed as a surface protein antibodies can sense, it’s considered as a string of amino acids. Each beat corresponds to one amino acid, and the piece is in 3/4 time, so each six measures would correspond to five turns around the alpha structure.
“Swine Flu Hemagglutinin”: amino acid sequence as ambient music
Max Neuhaus NYTimes.com Obituary
"Mr. Neuhaus himself preferred the term “sound installations” for the nonvisual artworks he created from electronically generated sounds emanating from an invisible source at a particular location. He worked, he said, from the premise that a person’s sense of place is determined by what he hears as well as by what he sees, and his art argued that a place can be denoted and described as definitively by the sound that fills it up as by a set of walls." Max Neuhaus, Who Made Aural Artwork, Dies at 69 Max Neuhaus Wikipedia.org entry
File Festival 2009
"FILE HIPERSONICA, the festival's sonorous branch, is on it's 7th
edition and intends to elaborate connections between the world of
images, the world of sonorities and the world of texts. Sound
installations and real time performances will be presented by a number
of groups and collectives, comprising both erudite and pop electronic
music, but also electronic compositions, sound poetry, radio art,
video music and sonic landscapes, as well as Djs and VJs presenting
their sets through specific apparatus and installations with
experimental and immersive projections."
Brian Eno "Bloom" iPhone/iPod Touch App
Special Message: If you like the music Bloom makes, you'll probably enjoy our Ambient Music Blog Podcast, a continuous mix of context specific ambient music available for free.
Brian Eno released an interesting little application for iPhones and the iPod Touch that allows users to create generative music. I haven't played around with it yet, but it looks, at worst, like an interesting diversion.
Eno says, "Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st century. You can play it, and you can watch it play itself."
What else would you expect him to say?
Taylor Deupree "Sea Last" Book
Taylor Deupree is set to release a book containing photographs and a 3" disc of music. Not sure exactly what the details are, but I always kind of appreciate the creative output of Deupree and the artists on his 12k label. Here's a little bit more about it:
In each Sea Last book printed, there is one missing image; in the back of the book you will find a sleeve containing the original photograph for that missing page along with the 3″cd. Every printed book is missing a different image, making each copy unique and by default limiting the entire production to 238, which was the number of photographs taken.
Interview: Brian Eno on 77 Million Paintings, Full Transcript
Photo courtesy of Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
I've posted about Brian Eno's "77 Million Paintings" a few times before. The work was recently on view at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, and Wired did an interview with Eno where he discusses the piece. It's an interesting read, and gives a bit of insight into Eno's approach to his work.
Related Wired: Interview: Brian Eno on 77 Million Paintings, Full Transcript 77 Million Paintings wrap up 77 Million Paintings
Noah Vawter: Ambient Addition
Interesting project by an MIT researcher: "Ambient Addition is a Walkman with binaural microphones. A tiny Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip analyzes the microphone's sound and superimposes a layer of harmony and rhythm on top of the listener's world."
77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno
I had mentioned last month that while I was in London I would try to check out Brian Eno's Luminous on display at Selfridges. Well, I did, and I liked it, but I didn't have much to say about it, and I think that's mostly due to the fact that I had seen it only a couple hours after getting off the plane at Heathrow, and really what I wanted to do in that comfortable dark room was lay down and take a nap.
Well, lucky for you, you don't have to rely on my jet-lagged description, you can buy the DVD and watch it yourself. A 77 Million Paintings DVD is now available for sale, and you can learn more about the project at 77millionpaintings.com.
Brian Eno's Luminous
Through March 11, if you find yourself around London, you've got the opportunity to check out Brian Eno's Luminous, a "large-scale installation of 77 Million Paintings." As far as I can tell, it sounds quite a lot like what old-school-web-designer-cum-new-media-artist Joshua Davis does these days.
I am, as you'd imagine, a big fan of Brian Eno's music and his thoughts on culture and technology. I'll be in London in just over a week to catch the Arsenal, and so I'm excited to get a chance to take a look at the display. Watch this space for thoughts and photos upon my return.
More Info: Brian Eno's Luminous, at Selfridges & Co.