Technology

  • Second Version of FoundSounds App Now Available

    Second Version of FoundSounds App Now Available

    David Jensenius has released the version 2.0 of his FoundSounds app, including the folllowing new features: Now record sounds up to 2 minutes in length (a 6x increase from the previous 20 seconds). You can now export the audio of…

  • Rainforest Listening

    Rainforest Listening

    Created by artist Leah Barclay, Rainforest Listening is a project using augmented reality and geolocated field recordings to expose nature soundscapes and generate ecological awareness towards critical sonic environments from the Amazon rainforest. The process consists on planting sounds across certain…

  • Reaktor: play. patch. build.

    Reaktor: play. patch. build.

    On October 27, 2015, Native Sessions visited Prince Charles Berlin for an evening of Reaktor’ Native Instruments’ modular DSP environment. The evening featured Tim Exile, Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars), Errorsmith, Deadbeat, and Peter Kirn. This video features insights into…

  • Ground Quarterly – Sound

    Ground Quarterly – Sound

    Issue 30 of Ground Quartely, a magazine by OALA (Ontario Association of Landscape Architects) is dedicated to sound. Here’s the outline: Up Front Information on the Ground Sound:  Subway Station Soundscape Animal control through acoustics TEXT BY CLAIRE NELISCHER Round…

  • 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…

  • electromechanical litophone

    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…