Interview with Pierre Henry

This 1995 interview with Pierre Henry appears most recently in the interesting and experimental blog <Gluon Symmetry.

This interview was made possible thanks to Jerome Noetinger of Metamkine. For those who would like to read more on the life of Pierre Henry, Michel Chion wrote a biography in 1980, published by Fayard in Paris, and available from Metamkine, 13 rue de la Drague, 38600 Fontaine, France. The interview and text are by and © Ios Smolders, and originally appeared in issue 44 of Vital magazine, in 1995. This version has been slightly edited by Brian Duguid; some quotes by Ios, Henry and Michel Chion have been altered to make them read better in English.

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.