UBUWEB: a completely independent resource for sounds and films, dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider art.
conTimbre: sample database for contemporary music, including many extended playing techniques (by Thomas Hummel)
Composers
Virtual Arnold - Voice Chat: ask Arnold Schoenberg anything you want (in English or German), typed or spoken aloud, and he answers in his own voice. His answers draw on his letters, writings, and documents, and every answer lists its sources, each linked to the passage it drew on.
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Earl Brown (1926-2002): official website by the Earl Brown Music Foundation
John Cage (1912-1992): official website by the John Cage Trust
Making the Right Choices: A John Cage Celebration, curated by the New World Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
aAmplify:
Austrian Art Music Productions Online - a website demonstrating Vienna's commitment to the third millenium's non-commercial music and developments in streaming medial
Österreichische Mediathek:
Das audio-visuelle Archiv (Technisches Museum, Wien) enthält 1 Million Tonaufnahmen und Videos zur österreichischen Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte und kann tlw. online abgerufen werden.
Music Manuscripts Online: online access to high-quality images and descriptions of music manuscripts owned by The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Bibliography of Music Literature on-line: international and interactive bibliography of music literature, edited by the "Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz"", Berlin
le piano contemporain: an impressive database of contemporary piano music, maintained by Hélène Uhry
Extended Piano: a great resource for extended piano techniques and repertory by Katharina Bleier (Vienna)
Ondioline: early electronic instrument that was used by Giacinto Scelsi
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Organ index: free Wiki database about organs all over the world.
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Toy Piano Library: A searchable database of toy piano compositions culled by Daria Binkowski.
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Sounding Future: platform for sound innovations in technology, music, and visual arts
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RISM Online: Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales
THESAVRUS MVSICARVM LATINVM: database of the entire
corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, ed. by the Indiana University School of Music
Oxford Music Online: excellent music encyclopedia, containing the online version of the Grove Dictionary
The Postmodernism Generator: random-generatedpseudo-scientific postmodernistic essays, written by Andrew C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars.
Erwin Uhrmann: Austrian poet, essayist and writer (* 1978)
Theory
Words Made Flesh: Code - Culture - Imagination (2005 by Florian Cramer)
Permutationen: a collection of "classical" text machines of Optatianus Porfyrius (4th cent.), Ramon Lullus (appr. 1300), Jean Meschinot (15th cent.), Julius Caesar Scaliger (1561), Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz (1616 ff.), Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1654), Quirinius Kuhlmann (1671) Raymond Queneau (1961, 1973) und Karlheinz Essl (1992 ff.) - implemented by Florian Cramer (D)
