Technology
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A Field Recording Gear List, Based on Interviews with 26 Recordists
Paul Virostek has been doing a very nice interview series at his site Creative Field Recording, talking with several field recordists, mostly about the gear they use and their processes, techniques, etc. There’s also another two posts from there: a roundup…
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electromechanical litophone
bespoke Electromechanical Instrument built as part of a dissertation undertaken on the Creative Music Technology degree course at Staffordshire University. the instrument uses the Maxuino software protocol to interface Max/msp with an arduino. Without Maxuino and specifically the help of…
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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, New Book by Michel Chion
Duke University Press has announced the arrival of Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, the first English translation of Michel Chion‘s Le Son book, originally published in French in 1998 and revised in 2010, where the author explores a wide variety of…
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OpenAIR, A Collective Library of Impulse Responses
There are many libraries featuring impulse responses online, both free as the great EchoThief and commercial, such as those impressive recordings Audio Ease has been doing for the Altiverb reverb plugin. But there is something actually beyond all these options,…
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Four New Books: Sonic Virtuality, Listening To War, Sensing Sound, Instruments of New Music
It’s very interesting to see the production of books about sound growing. In one side, it’s always challenging, difficult and almost impossible to theorize sound, at least in the way other aspects of life are theorized. But on the other hand,…
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Michel Andre, A Listener of Deep Sea
“The ocean was called ‘the world of silence’ in the past and it truly is for human beings, but as soon as you drop a microphone into the water, this world of silence turns out to be a cacophony of…