Intentional | Audio Identity Blog

Hot links for breakfast today:

• “LEMUR is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments.” Be sure to visit the video section.
• Sonic Postcards “enables pupils from across the UK to explore and compare their local sound environments through the composition and exchange - via the internet - of sound postcards with other schools.” Don’t forget to try the toys.
• And, riffing off Sonic Postcards, we bring you the Sonic Arts Network, also in the UK: “a national organisation working exclusively with sound and technology in creative, innovative and experimental ways.” I’m particularly intrigued by their A Call For Silence CD, which is focused on those subtle sounds that sometimes affect us in ways larger than we typically acknowledge: “breaths, rests, guitar hum, audience anticipation, room tones, the calm before a storm.”