The ICST was founded in 2005 by Gerald Bennett and Daniel Fueter as a research institute of the former Zurich Conservatory to establish itself as a specialist centre in Switzerland for research in the area of music and new sound technology.

The highSCORE New Music Center is dedicated to promoting contemporary music by featuring a range of events throughout the year.

dave phillips

On behalf of the NIME 2012 Committee, we would like to invite you to be part of the 12th international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, organized by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA.

As you may have heard, things are starting to look a little different across many Google products—and today, Blogger is the next product to get a makeover.

This site, which contains more than 11,000 links to other new music sites, has been provided since 1997 by Thomas Moore at UMBC and serves the contemporary classical music community. If you would like your site listed here, or if you have a site to suggest, send mail to: tmoore@umbc.edu.

The San Francisco game company Sifteo opened pre-orders for its interactive cubes today. The blocks have the simplicity of a child's toy, but they're loaded with sensors that are far from simple. The devices can detect their orientation and position with respect to other blocks. They also detect when they're flipped over, tilted, or pressed on

Performance artist and musician Dan Deacon live-scored the randomly selected scenes and provided some welcome levity to the chaos. After the first glitch, in which nothing appeared on the big screen, Deacon joked, "The new age of cinema has begun!" He also urged the audience to "turn this into the first Edgar Allan Poe dance party" by putting on their Poe masks and dancing.

Writing code for the latest multicore chips is notoriously tricky, but a new language could make it simpler, and make computers more efficient in the process.

Comfort Zone - August 2009

Welcome to the home of Quicksilver: Mac OS X at your fingertips.

Quicksilver is a light, fast and free Mac OS X application that gives you the power to control your Mac with keystrokes alone.

Hong Kong researchers have combined simple latex with some plastic buttons to create metamaterial panels that can stop sound waves very effectively, according to New Scientist. The reflected sound waves include low-frequency bass sounds that typically manage to sneak through the walls.

Magazine on new music and culture

(in Dutch)

ito, 44, is recognized as one of the world’s leading thinkers and writers on innovation, global technology policy, and the role of the Internet in transforming society.

7digital is a leading digital B2B media delivery company based in London and operating globally. We provide Cloud-based services, MP3 music, ebooks, and video services to a wide and diverse range of partners around the world

Ramblings through technology, politics, culture and philosophy by the creator of the Python programming language.

RedNet is Focusrite’s new professional audio networking system, delivering all the features required in a professional studio environment. Its robust, reliable networking technology makes design, installation and configuration easier than ever before. With RedNet, your audio computer system can be running any audio software you wish to use: you are not locked into a single system.

continuing global research of innovative music notation

The AMC Online Library is a vast and comprehensive digital database that contains over 50,000 works by more than 6,000 composers, and includes over 7,000 media samples (recordings and scores).

We have released a new Collection Composer that makes building and modifying collections even easier. The new Collection Composer allows drag and drop movement of all elements in a collection. Add modules, subcollections and links all in the same interface, then move them by simply dragging the element to a new location.

on starting a new composition

Reality Sandwich is a web magazine for this time of intense transformation. Our subjects run the gamut from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies

The Journal of New Music Research (JNMR) was founded (previously under the title Interface) in 1972. JNMR seeks to establish an interdisciplinary foundation for the creation and study of music by means of the most advanced technologies, by publishing material which is both scientifically rigorous and musically relevant. JNMR draws on disciplines ranging from musicology (music theory, aesthetics, sociology), psychology (from psychoacoustics to cognitive psychology - with emphasis on modelling), acoustics (including sound engineering), computer science (from signal processing to artificial intelligence), philosophy (epistemology and methodology) to brain sciences.

Major issues covered in the Journal include (but are not limited to): AI and Music; Algorithmic Composition; Cognitive Musicology; Digital Sound Analysis, Processing and Synthesis; Electro-Acoustic Music; Formal Music Theory; Interactive Systems; Multimedia Systems; Music Analysis; Music Information Retrieval; Music Perception and Cognition

Founded in 2009, the School of Film and New Media is the only higher education institution in Taiwan focusing on film and new media art. Its undergraduate programs will be introduced in August 2010. Its present master’s degree programs have been formed by incorporating the School of Theatre Arts’ filmmaking graduate program and the School of Fine Arts’ graduate program of arts and technology. The School looks to meet the trends and demand in Taiwan and overseas, providing talents of technology, creative work, R&D, and design for the culture and creative industries.

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.

A film produced for my final year Masters in Architecture, part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality

I must admit that I’m getting too much enjoyment out of making up fun sounds.

new sounds for electronics, computers and live instruments and voices
Contemporary Music La musique nouvelle musica nova Die Neue Musik
electronic music musique electroacoustique musica electroacustica Elektronische Musik

gutsy, new, experimental, electronic music
by composers who carefully craft their sound.
electronic music
computer music
music for live performers

NYU's Department of Music and Performing Arts at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

a multidisciplinary program that includes an understanding of music, communications, business, and entrepreneurship with a strong liberal arts background. Made possible by a generous gift from SU Trustee and Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC Chairman and CEO Martin Bandier ’62, the program prepares you for the music and entertainment industries via a rigorous 128-credit curriculum, weekly contact with prestigious industry professionals, hands-on learning opportunities, and study abroad in London, England. You also have access to the program’s EMI Center for Internship, Mentoring and Career Development.

music. technology. the new music business.

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Présence Electronique aims to stimulate research, development and experimentation in new media and electronic art to spread the creative development

a systems programming language
expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected

The Intermedia Art programme is focussed on art that engages the use of new media, sound and performance. Presenting a selection of artist commissions, events and broadcasts; supported by artist interviews, written articles and discussions that inform or comment on the work and its context.

Artworks may be created with newer or older networked and time-based media such as video, radio, computer technologies or the internet. They may involve performance or discussion, straddle a variety of media, or even fuse media in the creation of new hybrid, intermedia forms.

The programme will also address art that comments on the social and political implications of new technology and practices that challenge traditional ideas of the art object; including work that is process-driven, participatory or interactive.

The Intermedia Art programme aims to support artists’ use of new tools and new methods as well as to expand modes of distribution and display beyond the walls of the gallery.

New Media, Sound and Performance

Prevention and intensive management are the keys to stopping the epidemic

Created by Center For New Media Studies, CNMSTV is the only New Media Network producing and distributing web videos and podcast shows focused exclusively on those creating and working in new media projects. From news, to entertainment to insider interviews, if it's New Media, it's here!

New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century. Most technologies described as "new media" are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulatable, networkable, dense, compressible, and impartial.[1]

a celebration of Terry Riley's groundbreaking composition. This new double-disc set features a performance by the GVSU New Music Ensemble and remixes by a cast of luminaries and rising star

Late last year we announced Project 10^100, a call for ideas to help as many people as possible, and a program to bring the best of those ideas to life with a total of $10 million. We hoped to capture the imagination of people around the world and offer a way to bring their best ideas to fruition. We were overwhelmed by the response

Netexplorateur’s aim is to track new uses of digital media and to spread knowledge and understanding of the resulting innovations. The two French founders of Netexplorateur are convinced that a firm grasp of those trends will speed up change in the way institutions, media and businesses function.

is directed to a readership consisting of composers, performers, scholars, and all others interested in any kind of contemporary music. Published material includes theoretical research, analyses, technical reports, position papers by composers, sociological and philosophical articles, interviews, reviews, and, for special purposes, short musical scores or other creative productions