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Products & Services Offered by EMF Subscribers



New Ideas for Electronic Instruments

Symbolic Sound Corporation. Symbolic Sound designs, manufactures, and markets hardware and software for computer-based digital audio. They are the creators of the Kyma sound design workstation, a visual sound design language with associated Pacarana, Paca, or Capybara multiprocessor hardware accelerator. Kyma is being used in sound design for music, film, advertising, television, speech and hearing research, computer games, and other virtual environments ... www.symbolicsound.com

Keith McMillen Instruments. Keith McMillen Instruments makes innovative technology for string instruments. "Our products let musicians familiar with traditional string instruments (violin, viola, cello, bass, or guitar) use the computer as an extension of their current playing ability. A complete series of bows for violin, viola, cello and bass is available ... www.keithmcmillen.com

Infusion Systems. The I-CubeX line of products aim to facilitate the design and implementation of environments and objects that respond to human actions such as walking, reaching, touching etc. as well as environmental parameters such as illumination, temperature, humidity etc.. The response can be in the form of sound, music, video, graphics, animation, robotic movement ... www.infusionsystems.com



Recording & Mastering

Soundcurrent. Soundcurrent provides audio services including mastering, restoration, very high-resolution transfers of analog tapes, and collection archiving. Clients have included David Lewiston Archive, Bob Moog Foundation, John Eaton, Israeli Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Opera, Joel Chadabe, Charles Lindsay, Samarai Celestial, Zim Ngwana, Donald Brown, Cleveland Orchestra ... www.soundcurrent.com

Stonehouse Sound. Stonehouse Sound has a proven record of providing the highest quality, state-of-the-art, award winning (four 2006/07/09 Juno Awards) recordings at affordable rates. We are a team with extremely diverse musical and technical experience in classical, jazz, Rock/Pop and new music (John Cage, Eve Egoyan, David Tudor) and television and film production (PSI Factor, Beach Birds for Camera, the Jane Show, Milk) ... www.stonehousesound.com



Instrument Rentals

Kettles and Company. Kettles and Company is New York City's finest percussion instrument rental house, offering the region's largest and most complete collections of standard and exotic percussion instruments. We are the exclusive provider of instruments for the American Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the Eos Orchestra.  We also provide instruments for groups at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase, and CW Post College ... www.kettlescompany.com



Instruction

Unidentified Sound Object. Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi offer private lessons and personal coaching (Skype, AOL Instant Messenger/iChat), introducing Kyma and Max/MSP - Max For Live beginners to a wide variety of creative sound transformation techniques. The educational goal is to extend programming skills and knowledge of Kyma and Max/MSP-Max For Live in order to design sound for picture, installation, and sound art. Participants will learn how to conceptualise, plan and build customised Sounds suitable also as computer music composition or electroacoustic performance tools, using advanced signal processing and OSC/MIDI devices ... www.usoproject.com

Harvestworks. Harvestworks provides accessible and coordinated digital media education for innovative practitioners from all branches of the digital arts. Working with Max for 20 years now, today Harvestworks offers a wide range of courses and individual training in Max/MSP, M4L, Jitter, Ableton Live, Supercollider and many other software packages, as well as hardware/circuitbent training ... www.harvestworks.org