Helpful stuff

Sound studio and audio calculations 3 - online - acoustics conversion engine Very good calculator for audio based problems.	music theory & history online A very well laid out and diverse online resource organized by Dr Brian Blood for anyone interested in the topic
Justin's Drama & Theatre Links This site has links to many practitioners, includes definitions of theatre/drama styles and terms and much more. You will have to do a bit of a search as much of the pages are now taken up with advertising but in the end it is well worth a look.	Joe Wolfe is professor in physics at UNSW. His areas of interest are are music and speech acoustics and cellular biophysics. "Our group studies the acoustics of musical instruments and of the vocal tract, and the production and analysis of sound by physiological, mechanical and electronic systems. We have collaborative research projects with the leading manufacturer of cochlear implants (on the coding of music), and with local instrument makers."
Index of /glossary2004 The University of Chicago School of Media Theory Site. The page this links to looks a bit boring but just click on any desired area and be amazed. Or just go to 'Parent Directiory"	JBL Sound reinforcement manual Great in depth reference for sound system designers
OReilly Digital Media Some interesting reviews but not aimed at the high end professional user

Blogs, Discussion Forums, Artists Pages

Great Dance Weblog Lots of interesting discussion on dance and related stuff. Check out the Dance & Technology Guide, especially the papers.	Artcylopedia A reference for many artist whose works & musings are available on the web
Defining Lines An online exhibition curated by Christine Wang (check out her site too)	Ludology A discussion centre on Computer based games.
Metabolo.org "is a research site on the theory and practice of designing for emergence. Our field lies at the intersection of technology, biology and ecology."

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Artists, people

Warren Burt Warren is a challenging composer in and mentor to electronic art in Australia. His diverse work is always interesting and often very beautiful.	Simon Penny Interesting theoretician, artist and educator in the realm of new media
steven brown sound designer The technical information is very helpful and the links comprehensive (mostly in Britain). His article is very interesting and a great start in developing a sense of sound design/composition for theatre.	Simon Ellis A very interesting dancer and choreographer, also one of my most talented sound design students. Simon's collaborative approach to art making is both enjoyable and admirable, creating works where the sum is obviously more than the parts.
Gordon Monro Gordon is a fine composer of electro-acoustic music. His compositions are challenging and his interests lie in digital synthesis and manipulation, algorithmic processes and acoustic instruments. He is currently a part-time postgraduate student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.	Cajid Cajid curates and releases sound, video, dvd and web based works by Australian artists and musicians. It also tours its artists and provides a discussion forum for anyone interested in technological media related art.
austraLYSIS The site for the austraLYSIS and SOMA ARTS group. It offers a number of links to various computer/sound artists in Australia and some of the services that they can provide.	Anne Norman Anne is a fine shakuhachi player and composer. She has developed the power pole caps instrument and is part of the duo Questing Spirit, with harpsichordist Peter Hagen and the group Jouissance.
NYID Not Yet It's Difficult is an interesting and innovative performance company developing new and interesting ideas, commenting on salient cultural issues.	Time Space Texture This is the website of Andrew D. Lyons. It has some interesting papers and gives his approach to sound and multi/inter-media.
Robin Allot Some deeply considered information and opinion on sound symbolism, gesture, evolutionary biology and the foundations of language.	Nigel Nettheim Nigel is a well published musicologist with a special interest in the piano, piano works, pianists and musical apprehension. His publications list provides a wealth of knowledge in these areas.
The Aural Imagination Mic Pool's site offers a lots of information regarding all aspects of sound design for theatre. The cue sheets and system plans are useful as templates and to draw ideas from. His discussion of the sound design process, under "Manifestos", is also very interesting.	Gregory Little Academic and artist looking into “synnoetics”—a term coined in 1961 by Louis Fein in unpublished documents, to describe “the cooperative interaction, or symbiosis of people, mechanisms, plant or animal organisms, and automata into a system that results in a mental power (power of knowing) greater than that of its individual components.” (Fein, 1960). Some interesting art works are available on his site too.
Tonemeister A very detailed and informative site offering a wealth of information for those interested in the world of sound.	David Cope Composer, programmer and teacher. Experiments in Musical Intelligence and the software he has written contribute very much to the fields of computer music, musicology and composition.
Kai Harada's Sound Handbook This is a wonderful description of the needs, processes, questions and answers to many sound design issues	F. David Peat An interesting physicist and philosopher with a very broad world view.
Yumi Umiumare A wonderful dancer.	Jeremy Alsop My brother & a fine musician too
Joe Paradiso Well worth checking out the publications and links pages	John Toth An intermedia artist and use a computer as an instrument to explore the layering of sculpture, painting, music, sound, dance, video, film, slides and written text.
DJSpooky that subliminal kid. Have a read of the articles,& a listen to the sounds.	David Worrall an interesting composer with broad interests, check here for his audio courses.

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Education

Audio: Theory, Criticism, and Aesthetics
This web page shows an outline of the course Jim Lee teaches. The links are interesting, well considered and informative.

Film Sound Theory
A very good introduction to the aesthetics and processes of film sound. It also offers a good starting point for any performance art or dramatic production.

Handbook of Acoustic Ecology
Barry Truax's seminal work It is a resource, in plain English, that is indispensable to the sound designer, composers with sound, and those interested in the field.

music theory & history online
A very well laid out and diverse online resource organized by Dr Brian Blood for anyone interested in the topic

History of Computer/Electronic Music
Quite a good listing of web sites and it gives a fairly comprehensive list of people, technology and events.

UCSC Electronic Music Studios
This site has a wealth of information for the electronic music student. The courses and research are both interesting and of a very high standard.

HyperPhysics
This is a great site with some interesting and clearly put information on the physical aspects of sound and much more.

Moulton Laboratories
Good for getting some views on a large variety of sound issues.

Eric Chasalow
Check out the ORAL HISTORY page, there is some truly great stuff there. (thanks Warren)

Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music
A great resource for information on the topic. Check out the Archive and Research pages.

Tonemeister
A very detailed and informative site offering a wealth of information for those interested in the world of sound.

Interactive Systems and Instrument Design in Music
This is a very interesting and useful site discussing the many and diverse issues in gesture based computer control. The bibliographic pages provide a valuable set of references.

The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music
"Miller's excellent book ... which is so good and made in such a way that it's not pd specific and should be in everyone's library" (Paul Doornbusch)

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
An idiosyncratic view on dance/pop (& all of the esoteric permutations). Read the disclaimer.

NIME at itp/NYU
Just check through the del.icio.us stuff & the various pages. Well worth a look.

The Electronic Labyrinth
"A study of the implications of hypertext for creative writers looking to move beyond traditional notions of linearity"

SAE reference material center
"written in an approachable and non-academic style, presents basic information about all aspects of recording from the point of view of an experienced recording engineer in Australia."

Record Producers
Music producers and recording studios free resources plus record producers and musicians home recording equipment shop. Take 125 unique video tours around the World's best music Recording Studios and watch 144 of the World's leading Record Producers talking on camera about their music, favourite recording studios, must have recording equipment & software and discover their secret production techniques !

Electronic Musician podcasts
Podcasts of various producers and engineers talking about their work

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Electronic Journals and conference proceedings

The Journal of Music and Meaning A free online refereed journal discussing music and meaning in a variety of areas, including musicology, computer/EA music and composition.	crossings "Crossings is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal that aims to explore the areas where technology and art intersect"
NIME conference proceedings New musical interface design. Have a look through the variety of conference proceedings.	Mikropolyphonie This is a very interesting refereed on line journal representing works from Australia and beyond. It contains a gallery, non-refereed forum pages and a large number of interesting links.
Sound Moves : an international conference on music and dance Lots of interesting comment on the relationship(s) between dance and music	Citeseer Lots of links to papers in the scientific domain.
cyclic defrost a magazine on Australian electronic music	Resonate The online magazine of the Australian Music Centre

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Associations

Australasian Computer Music Association ACMA provides a forum for new compositions, information sharing, and research about music technology and computer music. Members include composers, performers, educators, researchers and others with an interest in the many aspects and forms of electronic music.	Electronic Music Foundation A must for anyone interested in electronic music in its many forms. Essential for people wanting to keep up with events, opportunities, publications, and so on, in this field, especially, though not exclusively, in the Northern Hemisphere. The CD selection includes non-electronic music too.
Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology ACAT provides a great venue for study and research into computers and interdisciplinary art making. There has been very interesting work in sonic/visual spaces, virtual and otherwise, and the research into these areas is continually developing.	World Forum of Acoustic Ecology The web page of the WFAE,AN excellent resource for informstion about the natural world we inhabit.
CTHEORY and NOEMA Two very interesting discussion sites on current events. Noema also has a great deal of calls for works, papers etc. Both sites are well worth a look	Compositiontoday Lots of articles about mostly acoustic music composers

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Manufacturers: software, hardware etc

Cycling 74 The home of Max/MSP/Jitter, need I say more. It also has a number of great links for the EA musician.	jMusic A very good tool for the computer musician. The links and references pages are quite comprehensive.
Richmond Sound Design Ltd. This page gives a whole lot of information about the products of the company, including the Richmond Audio Box. The Theatre Sound Designer & Resources Directory and the Bibliographies, Articles and Papers links are fantastic.	AudioMulch This is the site for AudioMulch, a very interesting and extremely useful program. The discography page shows how widely it is used and the breadth of its applications. I use it as a significant part of my teaching and am regularly amazed at the variety in the work my students create with AM.
pd [pure data] Pd is free software [that] was written to be multi-platform and therefore is quite portable; versions exist for Win32, IRIX, GNU/Linux, BSD, and MacOS X running on anything from a PocketPC to an old Mac to a brand new PC.

Index of /glossary2004 The University of Chicago School of Media Theory Site. The page this links to looks a bit boring but just click on any desired area and be amazed. Or just go to 'Parent Directiory"

SAE reference material center "written in an approachable and non-academic style, presents basic information about all aspects of recording from the point of view of an experienced recording engineer in Australia."

Index of /glossary2004
The University of Chicago School of Media Theory Site. The page this links to looks a bit boring but just click on any desired area and be amazed. Or just go to 'Parent Directiory"

SAE reference material center
"written in an approachable and non-academic style, presents basic information about all aspects of recording from the point of view of an experienced recording engineer in Australia."