Integra is a six-year international collaborative project headed by Bimingham Conservatoire, and support by EU’s Culture 2000 program. The project has gone through two phases, and NOTAM has participated since the start in 2005. Project goal The main purpose of the Integra project is to develop a new software for composing and performing music with live electronics. The software will be tested in real productions thanks to financial support from the EU. To this end, new works by five... 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

In the autumn of 2007 NOTAM and the Norwegian Academy of Music began a collaboration project where the main focus was to equip a violin bow with electronics for real time audio manipulation purposes. A prototype of the bow is now in use. The second step in development was programming in Max/MSP and adaptation of the musical piece “Victoria Counts”, written by Henrik Hellstenius. The electronic violin bow project was introduced at ICMC in Belfast in August 2008. The violin bow is... read more

In 2005, a research project with Alexander Refsum Jensenius from the University of Oslo as the project coordinator was launched. The goal was to create balls that could be used as new interfaces for musical expression. The project was a collaboration between the University of Oslo, NOTAM, Oslo School of Architecture and Design and McGill University. Go to external website for more info about Musical Ball (Norwegian text) Development Alexander Refsum Jensenius (UiO) coordinator, electronics... read more