Natasha Roberts shared this link with me, it’s about microsensors essentially and how we are able to listen to vibrations due to pressure levels as small as 1/100 of the weight of a grain of salt ! No, seriously!

Check out the link below… just imagine the musical possibilities of being able to attach sensors to bacteria…

BBC News – Tiny ear listens to hidden worlds

A micro-ear could soon help scientists eavesdrop on tiny events just like microscopes make them visible.

Initially, researchers will use it to snoop on cells as they go about their daily business.

It may allow researchers to listen to how a drug disrupts micro-organisms, in the same way as a mechanic might listen to a car’s engine to find a fault.

A team from three UK institutions are building the device, which they hope will become standard lab equipment.

Institutions involved include the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford as well as the National Institute of Medical Research at Mill Hill.

Attention Creative Music Technologists,

Next week on thursday at 2pm. Ruskin 141, there is a meeting with the production groups from the TV and Film production pathway for interested composers and sound designers. I taught them yesterday and told them all about you. Please tell everyone who is not following this blog but may be interested !

Keep cranking out those tunes !!

Our ex-students, Victoria and Jacob are celebrating the release of their next single ‘With No Certainty’ and to this effect they are running a remix competition. They have asked me to pass on the link to see if any of our present students would be interesting in competing. They are making all the tracks available to you at their website.

Vicky and Jacob have been working hard at promoting their music, performing everywhere and I think it is paying off, as they are getting noticed and have been on BBC radio as well as gotten some great reviews in the music press. Follow the link below to learn more about the competition and their work:

http://www.victoriaandjacob.net/wordpress/

Good luck with your entry !!

Julio

Here is a killer animation with an amazing big-band jazz music score, check it out !!

Attention music for media composers and producers !

you know who you are…

From the link below you can explore audiovisual material that the BBC is making available to anybody who wants to create their own version of the documentary or remix and mashup. Excellent for creating your own film demoing your fine sound design and composition abilities !

And, If you have not seen the 2 out of 4 parts already aired on BBC, get on to your iPlayer. If you are involved in creative technology (that’s right NOT JUST Creative MUSIC technology, but creative use of technology, in general), then you need to watch it (plus the presenter is a total babe ! )  ok, ’nuff said, click through then:

BBC – The Virtual Revolution – The Virtual Revolution: non-branded BBC rushes for download and reuse by the public

original website, here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/

Thought I’d share this great track from Vicky and Jake, a few remixes of it have been done by other producers, I think they’re all brilliant ! Vicky and Jake have been constantly gigging since they left uni and I know it’s going to pay off, big time !!

enjoy (in this snazzy embedded SoundCloud player   !!

With No Certainty (Dogtanion Darkfuzz mix) by Victoria & Jacob

This process will be familiar to those who have been studying the music of Reich and Glass, where each repetition of a segment can incorporate a new instrumental line, but only if the player is successful… game driven music rewards…

http://tinyurl.com/yd7dbl7

Hi Everyone,

The city of Bourges in France has been a seminal place for Electroacoustic music thanks to their electronic music studio. The Competition and Festival organised by the IMEB has given us a lot of what we now consider classics of electroacoustic music. With the excuse of cutting on spending, the French Ministry of Culture wants to close it down, after what must be now almost 40 years !

If enough people from all over the world sign the petition, we may just save the IMEB…

so, here it is, please sign it !

SECOND APPEAL FOR SUPPORT FOR IMEB
Addressed to Colleagues, Artists, the Public and Friends of IMEB from All Countries

www.supportforimeb.org

At the end of 2009, 2513 of you from 63 countries showed your support for IMEB, in danger of being closed by the Ministry of Culture. We are extremely grateful to you all for your efforts! This wave of protest was taken up and broadcast by many personal and institutional websites all over the world, and the protest was so strong that both print and electronic media passed on the information. But despite your magnificent show of solidarity, the Ministry still stands by its decision.
We see only one possible response: start a new campaign of support louder and with even more participants than the first.
Therefore, we, the members of the Support Committee for the IMEB, call on you once more to join this second protest, even more vigorously than before, either by writing yourself to the addresses you will find at the site www.supportforimeb.org , or by signing the petition you will find there. If you sign the petition at the website, it will automatically be sent with your signature to all the parties concerned.
You will find a report of the current situation along with additional information at the sites www.supportforimeb.org and www.imeb.net (under Support Committee). We must, by our common efforts and our joined voices from more than 60 different countries, succeed in saving the IMEB!

For the Support Committee :

Judy Klein
Gerald Bennett
Gonzalo Biffarella
Jean-Claude Risset
Nicola Sani

Just saw this at the NewScientist website. Not sure how wavelet transforms work but they are very nice to look at !

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/whalesong-art