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AUDIO RESOURCES
MP3 projects, labels, exhibits, archives, reviews, commentary, gear, wares and streams

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MP3 projects and labels
Antiopic :: The Allegorical Power Series
microsound projects :: microsound.org
soundtrack for images :: tu M'p3
no type | stasisfield | tiln | Term @ 12k | commtom | fluxrecords | dope recordings
| Rope Swing Cities

exhibits
Stasis_Space :: The Palimpsest Project | The Audible Still-Life | opho |
Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers | soundhouse | perspectiveHouse SDM

spoken word
Alt-X Audio | UBUWEB MP3 Archive | Language Removal Services | jorg piringer (sound poetry) | Let Them Sing It For You

archives
American Mavericks | New American Radio | Internet Archive: Open Source Audio & Live Music Archive

streams
slow sound system | quiet space | borderline | staticbeats | radiovalve | resonance fm | burn fm | electronic air
the world clock (useful for synching remote webcast times with local time) |


critTECH RESOURCES
articles, software, databases, and more

Texts
required :: Thom Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music (2nd Edition, Routledge 2002)

recommended ::
Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music (continuum/the wire 2002)
Peter Shapiro, ed., Modulations: A History of Electronic Music (Caipirinha 2000)
Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Quartet 1998)
Dan Sicko, Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk (Billboard Books 1999)
Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture (Routledge 1999)
Brian Pasley, MP3 Compression Quality Loss (Geocities 2003)

Movies and Documentaries
Forbidden Planet, dir. Fred M. Wilcox (Warner Bros. 1956)
The Birds, dir. Alfred Hitchcock (Universal 1963)
A Clockwork Orange, dir. Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros. 1971)
THX-1138, dir. George Lucas (Zoetrope/Warner Bros. 1971/2004)
The Conversation, dir. Francis Ford Coppola (American Zoetrope/Paramount 1974)
Psychic TV: Black Joy, dir. Genesis P-Orridge (T.O.P.Y. 1988/1989/2004)
Theremin, dir. Steven M. Martin (Channel Four Films 1994)
Modulations: Cinema for the Ear, dir. Iara Lee (Caipirinha 1998)
Better Living Through Circuitry, dir. Jon Reiss (Studio K7/Cleopatra 1999)
Human Traffic, dir. Justin Kerrigan (Miramax 1999)
Groove, dir Greg Harrison (Columbia Tri-Star 2000)
Scratch, dir. Doug Pray (Palm Pictures 2001)
Wave Twisters, dir. Sid Garon & Eric Henry (Thud Rumble! 2001)
American Massive, dir. Peter Rieveschl & Thomas Trail (Moonshine Movies 2002)
Apple's Profile of Walter Murch (Apple.com)

Databases
120 Years of Electronic Music | Vintage Synth Explorer | allmusic | Digital Music Archives | MusicPlasma |

GearZines Online and More
audioMIDI | Sound on Sound | Electronic Musician | Future Music | sonify.org | Harmony Central | hyperreal | Grooves Magazine | the milk factory | Dusted Magazine | Stylus | urb | newspapertaxi | Audiohyperspace | electronic music | BPM Culture | Muzik | ChordWizard: How Music Works

Some Electronic Artists Websites
OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music | Raymond Scott | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Brian Eno | Tangerine Dream |
ISAN | Autechre | Aphex Twin | Jan Jelenik | DJ Shadow | DJ Spooky | Monolake | Kim Cascone | Sonic Youth | Uwe Schmidt (Atom Heart)

Some Electronic Labels Websites
Basic Channel | Context Free Media | Skam | Phthalo | Caipirinha | ~scape | Asphodel Records | Solielmoon | Warp | Thrill Jockey |
Rather Interesting | MACOS (Musicians Against Copyright Of Samples) | G25 Productions |

Sound Samples and Sources
Sampling Zone | WebPlaces.com's Clip Art Review Sound Files | FindSounds | Sonic Foundry's Loop Libraries | Looper's Delight | Wav Central |
ccMixter (A Project Of Creative Commons) | SynthZone | SoundPlant | SoundForum Synth |

Technology Resources
Espace VSTi | VST Central | K-v-R | Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control | dB PowerAmp | Audacity (Mac freeware audio editor) |
Bias Peak (Mac) | Chord House (easily find keyboard notes, chords, scales, etc.) | PAiA Electronics

MP3 Resources and Distribution Networks
winamp | Streaming MP3 with Shoutcast | IUMA | epitonic | BeatPort | AcidPlanet

Audiocentric Multimedia on the Web
phon:e:me (Shockwave/RealMedia) | filmtext | groovylab:on sunday mornings (Flash) | sonicflux (Shockwave) | amorphoscapes (Shockwave) | Pianographique (Shockwave) | looplabs (Flash) | Electronic Book Review's m/s/n issue | SPNM Playground | soundtoys | soundhouse | Mutek | Sonar Festival | ATP Festival | <always more to come>

 
 
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