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@lonewick
The 1991 game, Monkey Island 2, was the first game to use the iMUSE system for seamless, action-synchronized musical transitions.
It's crazy how well the tech worked that long ago. The transitions shown in the video are actually really impressive.
iMUSE (Interactive Music Streaming Engine) is a system that allows the game's music to dynamically react to on-screen action, much like a movie score. By manipulating MIDI data in real-time, it seamlessly shifts between different tracks, alters instrumentation, and bridges transitions without any awkward pauses or jarring skips.
https://youtu.be/7N41TEcjcvM
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@lonewick
‘Ruggine’ (for string quartet + electronics, 2019 - Casa Ricordi) by Zeno Baldi
https://on.soundcloud.com/lE6r1rCfapwUX9IEVX
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@lonewick
Another great volume of works featured by The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-seamus-vol-35
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@lonewick
Loving the first piece ‘Capriccio’ for violin and ensemble and the second piece ‘Portrait #2’ for classical guitar and electronics on this album so far. Can’t wait to hear the rest. This gesture-based style of composition is one of my favorite things and he does it so well. Highly active.
Pick out a gesture with your ear (a pitch bend, tremolo, etc.) and see how it moves through instruments and fractals.
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/varietas
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@lonewick
New means change the method.
New methods changes the experience.
New experiences change man.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
https://youtu.be/7xyGtI7KKIY?si=POTWiGdSbadCtxLl
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@lonewick
'Vent Nocturne' for viola and electronics by Kaija Saariaho
https://youtu.be/lA5K0pVC-yU?si=Vem5N972wF3t51XK
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@lonewick
Enjoying this new album of string quartets by composer Rand Steiger performed by JACK Quartet.
https://youtu.be/TbeGg5vah4o?si=ocaE1EGSS-RUs7I5
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@lonewick
This is absolutely gorgeous.
‘presence of your absence’ by Lucy McKnight
https://youtu.be/k5ZvOfHQqQg?si=jmsXu30dpTNEPLrQ
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@lonewick
'Naama for Harpsichord (1984)' by Iannis Xenakis
https://youtu.be/PPnHHGuAiTs?si=UOeSUCH2R4y8uoVz
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@lonewick
'of sorrow born: seven elegies - no. VII (trio version)' by Michael Hersch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAS9aJHLpMk
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@lonewick
This Baroque composer was ahead of his time.
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747) composed 'The Elements' which opens with 'The Chaos' featuring a "tone cluster" of every note in the key. This is dissonant technique that seemed almost alien to the music of the 1700s.
https://youtu.be/41A9SzM06Uw?si=KDIhW2l2NLP6C_EA
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@lonewick
Listening to this new recording of this gorgeous classical guitar duet ‘Finis Autem Principium Est (2013)’ by Marek Pasieczny
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mejX5DvLaXja3D7njsSDIcCoADWUHK4MY&si=dbxNrT0vfqmV9VWt
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@lonewick
Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) has been called the “father of electronic music” for introducing controlled chance into serial composition and musical spatialization.
Here’s an interview on the most beautiful sound he’s ever heard.
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@lonewick
A fresh sound coming out of the new album by contemporary composer Taylor Brook. Loving it so far.
‘Nox’
“Nox is a set of fourteen pieces, conceptualized together as the passage of time through a single night: falling asleep, dreaming, deep sleep, wakefulness, and gradually awakening in the predawn. The music explores this by drawing on my personal experience of unconscious and semi-conscious states where logic becomes fuzzy and imagination goes to unusual and seemingly-impossible places. With the use of interactive electronic sound and audio-reactive projections, the lighting follows the passage through the night that Nox portrays. The projections are intended as a subtle addition to the music that helps to focus concentration and perception on the music.”
https://taylorbrook.bandcamp.com/album/nox
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@lonewick
Awesome sextet by Hilary Purrington. I love the way this starts as ethereal and evolves to a more material sense.
‘Tourmaline’ (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano)
https://on.soundcloud.com/7jvmrYJm3fstvwSjnT
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