Welcome
Websites
Thom Holmes Blog
Noise and Notations
http://www.thomholmes.com/Noise_and_Notations/Noise_and_Notations_Blog/Noise_and_Notations_Blog.html
History
Audities Foundation
Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center
Moog Archives
Paul Sacher Foundation
Synthesizers.com
Synthmuseum
Vintage Synth Explorer
Organizations and Resources
Australian National University, Computer Music Program
The Avant Garde Project Archive
Canadian Electroacoustic Community
Center for Computer Music, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Columbia University Computer Music Center
Computer Music Currents series, Wergo
http://www.wergo.de/shop/en_UK/Audio_CDs/1000083/1660296/index.html?order=t
Deep Listening Foundation
Deutsche Gesellschaft für elektroakustische Musik
Directory of North American Computer Music Schools
Electronic Music Foundation
Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM)
http://www.ina.fr/recherche/recherche?search=Groupe+de+Recherches+Musicales
Improvised Music from Japan
International Alliance of Women in Music
International Computer Music Association
IRCAM (France)
Lovely Music Ltd.
Mills College Center for Contemporary Music
http://www.mills.edu/campus_life/center_for_contemporary_music/index.php
Mimaroglu Music Sales
Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and the Arts (Norwegian Section of the International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music)
NTT Intercommunications Center (Japan)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)
Sonic Arts Network (UK)
Swiss Center for Computer Music
Tzadik Music
UbuWeb
Video Resources
Theremin
Clara Rockmore, thereminist, playing the "Song of Grusia" (Rachmaninov), circa 1981.
Dorit Chrysler theremin performance at Moogfest 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheTunedInn?v=XeNuA775fU8&feature=pyv
Leon Theremin playing his own instrument.
Lydia Kavina, thereminist, performing on Russian television in 2000.
Pamelia Kurstin, TED talk, 2002.
https://www.ted.com/talks/pamelia_kurstin_plays_the_theremin
Samuel Hoffman shows Johnny Carson how to play the theremin, 1956.
Vintage Experimental
Alvin Lucier performs “Bird and Person Dyning” (1975) at the Festival voor Nieuwe Muziek, 2010.
Alvin Lucier performs “Vesters” (1968) at the Festival voor Nieuwe Muziek, 2010.
Alwin Nikolais, the Nikolais Dance Theater, excerpt from recent performance of Noumenon, dated from 1953 with music created using traditional tape composition techniques in the 1950s.
David Tudor, Bandoneon! (a combine)
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=583
David Tudor, Rainforest V, Composers Inside Electronics’ realization of David Tudor’s sound environment Rainforest V, presented by Harvestworks in Fort Jay on Governor'’s Island, for the 2011 New York Electronics Arts Festival.
Gordon Mumma, live electronic improvisational performance from the 1978 Santa Cruz Saw Festival.
John Cage Water Walk, 1960.
Karlheinz Stockhausen, excerpt from May 1972 lecture to the Oxford Union on “Four Criteria of Electronic Music.”
Maryanne Amacher, Living Sound (1980).
Nicolas Collins, Tobabo Fonio for trombone-propelled electronics (1986).
Robert Ashley, excerpts from Perfect Lives, an opera for television created in 1983. Excerpts from four of the seven acts. (The entire piece can be purchased as a DVD at www.lovely.com).
Vintage Synthesizers
Various synthesizers: Jean Michel Jarre explains the vintage instruments used on a new version of Oxygene. Featuring EMS, ARP, Mellotron, Theremin, Moog Modular and Moog Liberation synthesizers.
Arp Odyssey: Jean Michel Jarre video from 1974 featuring the ARP Odyssey synthesizer.
Buchla: Morton Subotnick, demonstrating the prototype Buchla synthesizer (1964) in 2011.
EMS: Peter Zinovieff’s innovating UK firm.
Fairlight CMI: Herbie Hancock demonstrates the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument during an interview by Quincy Jones, 1982.
Fairlight CMI: Peter Gabriel demonstrates the sampling features of the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument circa 1982, while using it to record tracks for a new record.
Moog Modular Synthesizer: BBC program from 1969 introducing the Moog Modular Synthesizer, demonstrated by Mike Vickers, who worked with The Beatles on the Abbey Road album.
Moog Modular Synthesizer: Bob Moog, in an interview from 2002, recalling the invention of the Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s.
RCA Music Synthesizer: Milton Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer, with historic footage of the RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer.
Synclavier: Jon Appleton demonstrates the Synclavier II, 1984.
Electronic Music in Rock, Pop, and Jazz
BBC documentary, The New Sound of Music, about the state of electronic music, 1979.
Beach Boys live performance of the song “Good Vibrations,” circa 1967, featuring the Moog ribbon controller and oscillator, for the “theremin” part.
Daphne Oram BBC documentary, Wee Have Also Sound-Houses, 2008.
Delia Derbyshire, Sculptress of Sound documentary from BBC.
Gary Numan performs “Cars” with Nine Inch Nails, 2009.
Keith Emerson performing Moog Modular solo from the song “Lucky Man.”
Klaus Schulze Live, WDR Köln, 1977.
Kraftwerk, Godfathers of Electronic Music, short film about the influence of Kraftwerk on contemporary electronic musicians, circa 1992.
Silver Apples, interview with Simeon, 2009. The remaining member of the duo discusses the origins, an early performance of the group, and their recent revival.
Sun Ra, interview and performance, 1971.
Journals and Publications
Computer Music Journal (MIT)
Contemporary Music Review
Leonardo Journal
Organised Sound
Perspectives of New Music
Radio Programs
Echoes
Hearts of Space
Musical Starstreams
Star’s End
Ultima Thule Ambient