Archive for August, 2007

The Breadboard Band

Friday, August 31st, 2007

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The Breadboard Band: Movies Archives has some fun clips of DIY wiring as a process of performance. This could be seen as another approach to On-the-fly Audio Programming or realtime coding as performance in such software tools as Impromtu or Chuck

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Trimpin triumphs with “Der Ring” - a sound installation

Monday, August 27th, 2007

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Trimpin’s sound sculptures fuse mathematics, acoustic instruments and computer-controlled mechanics into a fascinating sonic blend that never fails to inspire. Trimpin: Der Ring sound installation

From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads

Monday, August 27th, 2007

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The ARC project, From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads is a large 5 year research project underway at the University of Western Sydney, where psychologists, computer scientists and artists, lead by Stelarc, are developing Stelarc’s original prosthetic head into an artificially intelligent companion!

Michael Atherton’s MySpace Site

Monday, August 27th, 2007

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This is a link to Michael Atherton’s MySpace site . Where he has a collection of other musical examples.

ubuweb

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

For a host of interviews, materials and archives of music and sound artists, try >>UBU Web< < site: http://www.ubu.com/

There is also an RSS feed at feed://interglacial.com/rss/ubuweb.rss

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A SOUNDING

Friday, August 24th, 2007

soundscape
sonus
vibrational
sonic fiction
moving air sonic circus

resounding
sonance
sonant
sonata
soniferous
sonometer
sonority
sonorous
sound board
sound hole
sound post
soundable
soundage
soundless
sonology
sonic hedgehog
sonified

noise abatement
sounds in space
living in the ear
din

cicada summer sounds,
sounds of aural wallpaper

Give me the loud speaker and I’ll conquer the world…
loud speaker swings across the void

ethereally engaging, empathic, lapping float tank Sssounds

sounds asustralian !!!!!!

sounds unwanted
sound installation
Sonic cliché
ULTRASOUND
Ectopic heartbeats sounds contrapuntally
saxophonic sound
sensual, sublime sounds

phonal/antiphonal sounding antiphonally
sibilance susurration tintinnabulation
s o n e t l u m I e r e

blip blip blip cardio monitor
blip blip blip radar navigation
blip blip blip electric chair

bass, treble, mid range
equalisation, parametric curve
sound compression
aurally excited sound
decayed, reflected, refracted, sound
sound envelope, enveloping
pulse pulse pulse pulse

attenuating sound: philipglass… .philipglas…. philipgla… philipgl…. philip….phili…. phil…. phi…. ph….p
sound metathesis: phil[I]pglass phi[l]pglass phi[p]glass phig[l]ass
composer per[son]ified

sonus interruptus
sounding radio talkback bigot box
sound polluting deep space

SOUNDS ANECHOIC/ ECHOIC echoic echoic
SOUND sculpted designed, silenced
DECAYING Doppler effect ding..ding..ding..ding..
RESONANT……………REVERBERANT

Before I play or you see me about to play or after I play, we both have auditory anticipation or auditory memory.

Sonic epiphanies - the ringing of the bell, the sound of feet shuffling across the marble floor, the pigeons in the rafters, the sound of the windchest and the chiff of organ pipes, the delay between the organist and the congregation. Hushed murmur of prayer and the cadential Amen

acoustic ecology
aural metaphor
sound bite
sound in three dimensional form
sound objects
sound separating from its ‘body’
environmental sound
soundmarks in aural geography
apocalyptic decibels
QUIET !

MICHAEL ATHERTON

SSL Tutorials on Compression

Friday, August 24th, 2007

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SSL have published a series of TUTORIALS on compression - these are for use with their Duende series of processors, but make an excellent foundation intro to using audio compressors

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Metric Halo Mobile I/O

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

We have been using the Metric Halo Mobile I/O in performance for tha last few years and find it fantastic, particularly because of the inbuilt DSP which allows us to compress and mix signals in the preamp.

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Brian Eno ‘77 Million Paintings’ Interview

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

YouTube - Brian Eno 77 Million Paintings Interview

YouTube - Michael Atherton & Garth Paine (SynC) #4

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

This is a video of Michael Atherton & Garth Paine (SynC) in their first performance in 2004