Excellent free eBook written by Dave Benson on the relationship between maths and music. Contains the following chapters; Waves & Harmonics, Fourier Theory, Mathematician’s Guide to the Orchestra, Consonance & Dissonance, Scales & Temperaments, Digital Music, Synthesis and Symmetry in Music. If you like/use the book you can support the author by purchasing either paperback or hardback editions.
Eight part series made by Jacques Peretti from 2001, looking at cult electronic instruments and how they have influenced modern music.
Here are the links to each episode:
[1 - AKAI]
[2 - TR808]
[3 - TB303]
[4 - Simmons Drums]
[5 - Fairlight]
[6 - DX7]
[7 - Vocoder]
[8 - MiniMoog]
Found via post at kvr.
ExpDigital have announced Infinity API a free cross platform (OSX Universal Binary, Windows) toolkit written in C++. It’s split into four parts in order to manage specific tasks effectively.
ECore provides handling of all basics (such as container classes, object wrapping, host querying etc). Contains no graphical objects, but is all you need to write command line applications.
EGUI provides the graphics handling process space of the Infinity API. It features both leightweight controls and heavy weight window objects and is a consistent interface across both window and mac systems.
EMusic provides acess to musically relevant processing classes, such as Audio file I/O, Midi File I/O and event handling etc. This can be considered to be under construction - over time this library will grow!
EVst provides cross platform wrappers around the VST 2.3 specification and provides helper classes to save you time in both setting up and running your projects.
A slideshow of 100 winning photographs from earthshots.org.
Combining visual art with spatial sound, Liquid Media generates liquid images & liquid sounds which are controlled via a MIDI keyboard and a multimedia system.
