| Electroacoustic music and E Guide - Resources and Review
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| Project set up to compile data about studios concerned with the production, research, or teaching of electroacoustic music, and about works which have been realised using such facilities. Records relating to studios provide details of name, type, contact person, address, phone, fax, email, Web page, number of works composed, year of opening (and closing where relevant), and equipment available. Entries for musical works composed in a studio environment are accessible by first or second name of composer, title, year, duration, tracks, instrument or performer, country, and studio name. Information is available in English, German, French, and Spanish.
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Traces the origins of electronic music and its development between 1870 and 1990, considering early experiments, the vacuum tube era, integrated circuits, and digital technologies of the present day. Also offers information on individual instruments such as the singing arc, celluphone, sonar, solovox, and synthesisers, their inventors, and date of invention.
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Information about software used, and audio samples of compositions produced, at the University of Birmingham's music studio facility. Also offers a guide to each of the eight studios, courses available, forthcoming concerts, and details of BEAST
Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre.
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Article outlining the two existing schools of electroacoustic music, the merits of live and composed presentations, technological developments in the field, manipulation of natural sounds, musical notation and resultant non
analysability of electroacoustic compositions.
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Information on musicians, equipment, techniques, news and reviews for music makers.
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Offers information about the location, facilities, and activities of the Institute, including details of concerts and festivals. Also describes research undertaken, and lists the titles, composers, and years of works realised at DIEM since 1987.
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Offers annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources about music in MIDI format, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Links to MIDI files including classical, blues, country, jazz, movie/TV, pop, hymnal and world music.
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Forum for musicians interested in personal music production. Contains tips, news, commentary and access to music industry and article databases.
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Full text doctoral thesis which tackles a number of analytical, perceptual, and aesthetic issues raised by electroacoustic tape
pieces or 'acousmatic' music. Initially, a review of existing theories is presented, before progressing to examine an ecological approach to acousmatic music. Downloadable as a Word or rtf file.
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