The Tower of Advanced Music & Sound, IRCAM's Open-Public Event, "Resonaces" on 15-24th October in Paris. (courtesy for Olivier Lescurieux)

*Massive stuffs happen on this week-end in "IRCAM".
This French Goverment financed institute is for advanced sound reserch. Basically it's not accessible for public. But, while this annual event "RESONANCES", many areas are Open to visit. Lots stuffs for education and industrial purposes, however, many reserches are quite corresponding well with interesting High-Tech Art.
This is demodratiK aha ?
For example, Tchek MSP-MAX system. This is a soft who can realize "VIRTUAL DRUM". You can specify any sound source via MIDI and DV Vidieo censor, play any vitual drums at any place in nicely acute resonances... This Newest PC based Soft is FREE.
& also, they have quite cool Flash Module interface for Media-Tech on XML streaming.

TcheK nd Tune in Resonances.