SuperCollider lecture notes on MutantSounds.com

In addition to his SuperCollider lecture notes based on a course he teaches at Queen's University, Jason Dixon's MutantSounds.com web site has a nice variety of interesting tidbits and resources.

SuperCollider Quarks

SuperCollider Quarks are extensions for the SuperCollider programming language, distributed using the Quarks package-manager built into SuperCollider. To install any of these quarks, execute Quarks.install("thequarkname") in SuperCollider, or Quarks.gui for a graphical installer.

CSound Instrument TOOTorial

If you're just starting out in CSound or have always been curious, the cSounds.com instrument design TOOTorial is a good place to start.

Eric Levy playing the Minimoog Voyager (video)

I'm still a sucker for MOOG synthesizers. Here's a video of Eric Levy of Garaj Mahal tearing up the Minimoog Voyager at NAMM 2008.

OHM early gurus of electronic music

Ohm - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

From http://areafutura.blogspot.com/2 — this survey of early electronic music might be a good place to start if you don't already have some of these works. Still, why are so many listed as "edited"?

1. Clara Rockmore - "Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale"
2. Olivier Messiaen - "Oraison" (performed by Ensemble D'Ondes De Montreal)
3. Pierre Schaeffer - "Etude aux Chemins de Fer"
4. John Cage - "Williams Mix"
5. Herbert Eimert / Robert Beyer - "Klangstudie II"
6. Otto Luening - "Low Speed"
7. Hugh Le Caine - "Dripsody"
8. Louis and Bebe Barron - "Main Title from Forbidden Planet"
9. Oskar Sala - "Concertando rubato"
10. Edgard Varese - "Poem Electronique"
11. Richard Maxfield - "Sine Music"
12. Tod Dockstader - "Apocalypse Part II"
13. Karlheinz Stockhausen - "Kontakte"
14. Vladimir Ussachevsky - "Wireless Fantasy"
15. Milton Babbitt - "Philomel" (edited)
16. MEV - "Spacecraft" (edited)

OHM 1 - The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music 1948-1980

1. Raymond Scott - "Cindy Electronium"
2. Steve Reich - "Pendulum Music (I)" (performed by Sonic Youth)
3. Pauline Oliveros - "Bye Bye Butterfly"
4. Joji Yuasa - "Projection Esemplastic for White Noise"
5. Morton Subotnick - "Silver Apples of the Moon Part 1" (edited)
6. David Tudor - "Rainforest Version I" (edited)
7. Terry Riley - "Poppy Nogood"
8. Holger Czukay - "Boat-Woman-Song" (edited)
9. Luc Ferarri - "Music Promenade" (edited)
10. Francois Bayle - "rosace 3"
11. Jean-Claude Risset - "Mutations" (edited)
12. Iannis Xenakis - "Hibiki-Hana-Ma" (edited)
13. La Monte Young - "Drift Study 31 I 69 12:17:30 - 12:49:58 PM NYC" (edited)

OHM 2 - The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music 1948-1980

1. Charles Dodge - "He Destroyed Her Image"
2. Paul Lansky - "Her Song"
3. Laurie Spiegel - "Appalachian Grove 1"
4. Bernard Parmegiani - "En Phase / Hors Phase"
5. David Behrman - "On the Other Ocean" (edited)
6. John Chowning - "Stria" (edited)
7. Maryanne Amacher - "Living Sound Patent Pending"
8. Robert Ashley - "Automatic Writing" (edited)
9. Alvin Curran - "Canti Illuminati" (edited)
10. Alvin Lucier - "Music On A Long Thin Wire" (edited)
11. Klaus Schulze - "Melange"
12. Jon Hassell - "Before And After Charm (La Notte)" (edited)
13. Brian Eno - "Unfamiliar Winds (Leeks Hills)"

OHM 3 - The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music 1948-1980

Eric Singer's Slime-O-Tron

I kind of like the phrase "Conductive Slime". Eric Singer is always up to interesting things, particularly with alternative controllers. Eric is also known in conjunction with Brooklyn-based LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots.