Varèse, Poème électronique in the Philips Pavillion (1958)—review

 

The Cube at Virginia Tech

https://player.vimeo.com/video/96939857

 

The BEAST at the University of Birmingham (UK)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM65sUdaS_4#t=11m50s

 

An acousmonium (concert speaker setup)

 

An introduction to 3D sound with ambisonics, an alternative to putting so many speakers in so many places

 

David Tudor, Rainforest IV (1973) performed by Tudor in 2013

 

Alvin Lucier, I am Sitting in a Room (1969)

 

Alvin Lucier, In Memoriam John Higgins (1984)

 

A modern soundwalk recorded in Vancouver, Canada—play for a minute, then skip to 4:00

 

Hildegard Westerkamp, Beneath the Forest Floor (1992)

 

Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms No. 6 (1970)

 

György Ligeti, Artikulation (1958)

 

György Ligeti, Fragment (1961)

 

David Litke’s explanation of his spectral composition process. The first two recordings in the sidebar show a source sound and the musical transcription of the sound, slowed down by an extreme rate: http://econtact.ca/16_3/litke_spectraldata.html

 

Gerard Grisey, Partiels (1975)

 

An example of a meta-instrument (Kevin Patton’s TaurEx)

 

George Lewis performing with computer-controlled piano in 2011 (start at 10:50; it’s actually a trio with a human pianist as well, but she enters later in this clip)

 

Emily Howell, From Darkness, Light mvt. 5, Prelude (2009)