"dsp" is an experimental electronic music collective originally from Canada. Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ...

Formed in the late eighties, it released cassette compilations of tape loops, found sound constructions, results of circuit bending, and ambient music from homemade synthesizers. Tape loops are loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns. ... Found art, or more commonly and less confusingly, Found Object (French: objet trouvé) is a term used to describe art created from common objects not normally considered to be artistic (also assemblage). ... Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of low voltage, battery-powered electronic audio devices such as guitar effects, childrens toys and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. ... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ...

As the name implies, their music is heavily dependent on digital signal processing equipment. In the nineties as computers became more powerful they became less reliant on off-the-shelf DSP processing equipment and wrote custom DSP software. Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. ...

Currently their releases are internet-only, often through Bit Torrent. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution tool written by programmer Bram Cohen which was debuted at CodeCon 2002. ...

External links

• Sonic Union has some archives of dsp material.