The EU project Integra was initiated in 2005 and will be concluded in 2011. This article by NOTAM’s Jøran Rudi and Jamie Bullock from the Birmingham Music Conservatoire presents a summary and findings from the project so far. Open publication – Free publishing – More... read more

Kjetil Matheussen will present a paper for the Linux Audio Conference 2011. The paper presents a new compiler called Poing Impératif. Poing Impératif extends Faust with common features from imperative and object oriented languages. Imperative and object oriented features make it easier to start using Faust without having to immediately start thinking in fully functional terms. Furthermore, imperative and object oriented features may enable semi-automatic translation of imperative and... read more

This text by Jøran Rudi Jøran Rudi was presented at Musikkteknologidagene 2010 at the Norwegian Music Academy on 17 September, 2010. The text presents a quite direct description of where we stand today in the world of music technology, and does so in order to stimulate a complex debate where positive aspects of the development is discussed along with aspects that are more problematic. Read the whole text... read more

Cato Langnes is the studio manager at NOTAM. For the conference Musikkteknologidagene 2010, he gave a presentation which also has been written as an article. The article is a summary of the work he has done together with the double bass player Håkon Thelin, and the novel recording techniques he has developed during this collaboration. Download the article... read more

Kjetil Matheussen and Hans Wilmers have built two new and exceptionally quiet workstations. Read the article which takes you through the building process step by... read more

Svein Berge and Natasha Barrett presented a new method for multichannel playback at an Ambisonics symposium at Ircam in Paris 6–7 May, 2010. With existing ambisonics methods, one is typically faced with a choice between realistic sound with low angular resolution, or high angular resolution with audible artifacts. With Harpex – High Angular Resolution Planewave Expansion – both accurate sound and spatial sharpness is attainable. The article introduces the theory behind Harpex, and... read more

NOTAM’s programmer and Linux specialist Kjetil Matheussen is publsihing an article about unusual techniques for low-latency sample-by-sample audio programming at Linux Audio Conference 2010 in the beginning of May. Full title: «Implementing a Polyphonic MIDI Software Synthesizer using Coroutines, Realtime Garbage Collection, Closures, Auto-Allocated Variables, Dynamic Scoping, and Continuation Passing Style Programming». Read the article by clicking below or download it... read more

An educational text for school children, written by Jøran Rudi. The text was written in connection with a presentation for pupils at Møllergata skole in the fall of 2009. Read the text on Jøran Rudi’s website, or click on the document below for PDF viewing (Norwegian... read more

An article by Kjetil Matheussen which was published at ICMC 2009 in Montreal. Download... read more

This year’s first issue of Organised Sound was published in April 2009. It was edited by Jøran Rudi, and the issue was dedicated to a special focus on sound art. Link to more info about the publication on Organised... read more