In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.
The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
"Monkey Machine is a free online drum machine intented for music practice purposes.
To run Monkey Machine, click the green "launch" button above. If the application won't start, check that Javascript is enabled in your browser, and Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or later is installed in your system."
When you click on the green "Launch" Button on the web page, a second window will open, Java will load, and your drum machine will appear. Make that window "full screen", and begin to click on the different squares to turn sounds on and off. You can also define your drum kit with the tool bar at the top of the screen. When you're finished, you can download your work, and edit it in Audacity or Garage Band.
This video introduces the Reware project: you can turn an old PDA, Pocket PC, Palm Pilot and the like into a musical device.. Learn about the Reware project, see how to easily install GNU/Linux and Pd on your Palm TX, and see some example projects.
The kora is a chordophone string instrument from Mali. Watch this video of Toumani Diabate playing:
March 25, 2008 — This performance of 'Cantelowes' is from the recent live World Premiere of "The Mandé Variations" at the prestigious El Real Alcazar de Sevilla in Spain which left the audience spellbound and was described by the The Independent as "a performance that surpasses anything....for sheer scale of ambition and technical achievement."
Read an interview with Toumani Diabate and see another video at this web page.
Keeping Score is the website of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and it is a very interesting place! It is an outgrowth of the Symphony's television program on PBS in the US.
"The Keeping Score web site is designed to give people of all musical backgrounds an opportunity to explore signature works by composers Hector Berlioz, Charles Ives, and Dmitri Shostakovich in depth, and at their own pace. www.keepingscore.org offers an interactive area for each composer, with clues and context to illuminate the musical mysteries presented by the television episodes. The interactive audio and video explores the composers’ scores and pertinent musical techniques as well as the personal and historical back stories. The site is designed to particularly appeal to high school, college and university music appreciation students and their teachers, and its interactive learning tools offer a unique and in-depth online learning experience. The site includes groundbreaking and acclaimed interactives on composers Beethoven, Stravinsky, Copland and Tchaikovsky. The site also includes a new historical timeline that takes users deeper into the seven individual composers’ political, social, and cultural milieus as well as downloadable lesson plans created by teachers who have experienced the Keeping Score Education program."
This is Eric Whitacre's "Sleep" performed by Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 185 voices in 12 countries. You can see/hear more from the choir at their YouTube Channel.
The world's first collaborative online orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall on April 15, 2009. Selected by the YouTube community and several members of the world's most renowned orchestras, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra is made up of over 96 professional and amateur musicians from 30+ countries and territories on six continents and represents 26 different instruments.
Program on the Act One video:
07:15 Johannes Brahms - Allegro giocoso from Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op. 98
17:15 Lou Harrison - Music from Canticle No. 3
27:45 Antonín Dvořák - Music from Serenade in D minor, Op. 44
32:45 Giovanni Gabrieli - Canzon Septimi toni No. 2
38:15 Johann Sebastian Bach - Sarabande from Suite No. 1 in G major, for Cello Solo, VWV 1007 (performed by Joshua Roman)
43:30 Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras No. 9
54:00 Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkuere
Program for the Act Two video:
3:00 Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vase from Two Pieces for Pian, Six Hands (performed by Derek Wang, Charlie Liu, Anna Larsen)
07:45 Tan Dun - Internet Symphony Eroica
16:00 Sergei Prokofiev - Scherzo from Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Piano, Op. 16 (featuring Yuja Wang)
23:00 Claude Debussy - Nuages from Nocturnes
32:15 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Finale from Concerto No. 5 for violin in A major, K. 219 (featuring Gil Shaham)
48:00 John Cage - Aria with Renga (featuring Measha Brueggergosman)
57:15 Mason Bates - Preview of Warehouse Medicine from B-Sides
1:05:30 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Finale from Symphony No. 4
"The Internet Symphony" Global Mash Up
A book was created with photographs from the event - you can see a preview of it at this web page.
"The mobile phone is a very nice platform for exploring new forms of musical performance," Essl said. "We're not tethered to the physics of traditional instruments. We can do interesting, weird, unusual things..." Read more about it at this link.
This is from a web site called iNudge, where everyone can create music. You can add to what I made in this little box, or go to the web page and create your own.
Select 1 of 8 different Sound Patterns from the small Matrixes icons
Use your mouse to draw notes on each 16 Step Matrix.
For each Pattern, adjust Volume, Mute, Clear, or set Audio Pan from Left to Right.
Click on the Tempo numbers and click up or down to change the overall Tempo.
Get & Share allows you to Send Mail, Get Link, Get Embed code or Spread in communities.
"Melodica presents a 16 by 10 surface where the length represents the 4 bars of a 4/4 beat and the height is a set of 10 notes that all harmonize well together. Interesting if you want to create melodies quickly and simply." Read more about it here.
"In the enigmatic Canon 1 a 2 from J. S. Bach’s “Musical Offering” (1747) (also known as “crab canon” or “canon cancrizans”), the manuscript shows a single score, whose beginning joins with the end. This space is topologically equivalent to a bundle of the line segment over the circle, known as a Möbius strip. The simultaneous performance of the deeply related forward and backward paths gives appearance to two voices, whose symmetry determines a reversible evolution. A musical universe is built and then is “unplayed” back into silence." (link)
Thanks to Dan Coleman at Open Culture for helping us find this.
Using his Music Animation Machine, Stephen Malinowski has created some intriguing looks at music.
The video below shows an animated score of Beethoven’s 5th, and you can use this chart that explains what the colors in the score mean. Essentially each color represents a particular instrument. Get the chart here,
and Debussy's Claire de la Lune:
Here is the playlist for music by Bach:
Go to the YouTube page (with links to all 63 videos of all kinds of music): http://www.youtube.com/user/smalin and the Musical Animation Machine's web page is here: http://www.musanim.com/. You can read an interview with Stephen Malinowski here.
On the The Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra's web page, you can see and hear about the works they are performing. In this video, conductor Wayne Marshall talks about "L'enfant et les sortileges", describing (in English) how the singers and instrumentalists of the orchestra imitate the characters from the tale and bring a child's fantasies to life trhough Ravel's music. Hay Beurskens (in Dutch) gives guided tour gives along the different instruments and demonstrates the wind machine.…
In the column on the right side of the web page, you'll find links to other short videos which talk about works performed by the orchestra: Brahms, Dvorak, Frank, Gershwin, Glinka, Hayden, Khachaturian, Mahler, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schmidt, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovitch, Scriabin, and Johann Strauss. All the videos include some English and some Dutch dialogue.
Using his Music Animation Machine, Stephen Malinowski has created some intriguing looks at music.
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