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This app is a dream machine that transforms the world around you into a dreamworld. It uses augmented sound to induce dreams through the headset of your iPhone and iPod Touch. It will change your perception of reality.

Inception The App transports Inception The Movie straight into your life. New dreams can be unlocked in many ways, for example by walking, being in a quiet room, while traveling or when the sun shines. You will get realtime musical experiences, featuring new and exclusive music from the Inception soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer.

http://inceptiontheapp.com/

Review on Wired:

“The official tie-in iPhone app for this year’s mind-melting Christopher Nolan flick Inception is every bit as surprising and nontraditional as the movie. Where other apps provide listless minigames, boring photo galleries and jargon-filled text, this one provides something of an experience.

The app uses just about every sensor and gizmo inside your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad to merge life around you into the game’s distorted reality, much the same way that your dreams feature twisted versions of real-life memories.”

from the album Corymb (Lex Records 2004) Written by Bryan Hollon (Boom Bip), remix by Marcus Eoin & Michael Sandison (Boards of Canada). Unofficial video made by FroschYankee from the movie Adrenaline Rush (The Science of Risk). Location: Eikesdalen (Norway).

soundtrack spoiler:

From the New York Times (via /Film):

[Hans Zimmer] said the sonic similarity was not only intentional but also the one element of an enigmatic movie “that wasn’t supposed to be a secret.”Speaking of the viral video, Mr. Zimmer excitedly said: “I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. I was surprised how long it took them to figure it out.”

The musical cue, Mr. Zimmer said, “was our big signpost” in the film of its characters’ moving from one level of dreaming (or reality) into another. “It was like a drawing of a huge finger,” he said, “saying, O.K., different time.”

Mr. Zimmer said the idea for this musical game had begun with Mr. Nolan, the film’s director and writer.

“He had the Édith Piaf always written in the script, the ‘da-da, da-da,’ ” he said, imitating the cadence of that song. “It was like huge foghorns over a city, and afterward you would maybe figure out that they were related.”

Technically, Mr. Zimmer said, his score is not a slowing-down of the French song, which was composed by Charles Dumont and recorded by Piaf in 1960, but is constructed from a single manipulated beat from it.

“Just for the game of it,” Mr. Zimmer said, “all the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Édith Piaf track. So I could slip into half-time; I could slip into a third of a time. Anything could go anywhere. At any moment I could drop into a different level of time.”

Sun Boxes in Rhyolite Nevada. A twenty speaker piece powered by the sun.
http://muudmusic.blogspot.com/

Sounds of Hamburg.de turns Hamburg into an interactive orchestra for the Hamburg Philharmonics.
Placing web cams in the best known locations of Hamburg, live videos are being streamed from all places of interest around-the-clock.
By means of motion tracking and movement recognition they have used these live videos to connect them with recordings that were played by the Philharmonics for this purpose only.

www.sounds-of-hamburg.de

A 20 minute documentary on the Amen break. Touches on copyright and culture issues surrounding sampling & remixing. Argues that this break has now become part of our music/cultural subconcious.

Herman Kolgen -INJECT (PREVIEW) from MUTEK on Vimeo.