• soundgrain

    soundgrain

    Soundgrain is a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis. Soundgrain is written with Python/WxPython and uses Pyo as its audio engine. Soundgrain version 5.0.0 features a brand new granulation engine, with much more controls and capabilities than the previous…

  • broken sound

    broken sound

    Broken Sound comes from a forensic examination of the speakers silenced by his exploration of cymatic sound forms. Using hand built mechanisms and specialized macro photography techniques he has documented the marks and scars of the coiled copper wire and magnetic traumas that have silenced…

  • Listening to the Processes that Shape the World: An Interview with John Grzinich

    Listening to the Processes that Shape the World: An Interview with John Grzinich

    John Grzinich is passionate about sound and listening. Rather than just being someone who merely ‘works’ with those elements, he is deeply involved in the actual experience, placing the listening realm in a very important spot in his life, as a way of extending his artistic practice…

  • otto a totland – pinô

    otto a totland – pinô

    It’s hard to find words for Pinô; a completely glorious encounter, to be listened softly, repeatedly, slowly, as it is full of audible wonders hidden in the trails of time. The work is a theatre of subtle details that inhabit the seemingly simple sound forms, here as slightly piano points drawn as ethereal structures,…

  • micro | macro

    micro | macro

    As prelude to the exhibition »Infosphere«, the ZKM | Karlsruhe is presenting the large-scale exhibition »micro | macro« by Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda. The series of works entitled »supersymmetry« and the installation commission by ZKM entitled »the planck universe« will be presented for…

  • Limited Definition(s) and Sound Cultures: MP3s, Soundscapes, Power; Lecture by Jonathan Sterne

    Jonathan Sterne lecture @ The Center for the Humanities, 2012. What does the world’s most popular format for recording tell us about human history? What are the connections between the history of sound and the defining features of modernity, from developments in medicine, physics, and philosophy to…