Links
SOFTWARE
Sound
If you are using Linux check out CCRMA. They are developing and distributing tons of stuff (in a project called Planet CCRMA).
Also check out the programs developed by NOTAM.
Ardour - Linux and OSX freeware multi-track editor – a UNIX-version of protools.
Audacity - cross-platform open source multi-track sound editor
IXI - somewhere in between real-time processing and soundtoys
Max/MSP - commercial graphical "programming"
Pure data (or Pd) – cross-platform open source modular program similar to Max/MSP
Pure data libraries:
- Gem - GEM (Graphical Environment for Mulitmedia) is a library for working with real-time 3D graphics
- Pmpd - excellent library for physical modelling
Soundhack - Tom Erbe’s classic FFT based sound-editor (OSX)
Image-to-sound translation
Here is a list of software tools for translating images to sound (and sometimes vice versa)
Commercial:
Audiosculpt (OSX)
Metasynth (OSX)
free/open source:
Bitmap Player (windows)
Ceres3 (OSX, Linux) a somewhat updated version of Øyvind Hammer's original Ceres (for SGI) at Notam
Coagula (windows)
Hyperupic (OSX)
Sonographe (windows)
Spear: analyses sound to sinusoids that may be graphically edited
Mulitmedia
Eyesweb - excellent (windows only) modular program for real-time video processing and analysing.
Processing - cross platform tool for writing digital multimedia application
VJ software
Here is a good site with many links
OTHER STUFF
Interface, microcontroller
Arduino - IO board, ressources. You can buy the board here
BASIC Stamp - Microcontroller
Other stuff
Soundscape studios - Trondheim based company, deals with hardware audio-solutions, special speakers etc.
electrosound - Swedish based company selling special speakers and other stuff
tapeline - ressource for audio cassette tape, blank tapes, loops etc.