Technology
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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…
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MyNoise Interactive Soundscape Generator, Plus Félix Blume’s Field Recordings from Sian Ka’an Reserve
We know several ways of publishing sounds over the Internet, but some of those services tend to offer interesting features which creatively differentiate them among the rest, as it is the case of MyNoise.net, an interesting web project in which…
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Tsonami 2015: Audio Fiction – Sonic Imagination and Urban Speculation
Based in Valparaiso/Santiago, Chile, Tsonami is probably one of the most important international sound art festivals and certainly highly significant for south american sound exploration and practices, not only reflected on their always fine selection of artists, concerts, installations and…