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New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects
If there’s an influential 20th century research, it is Pierre Schaeffer’s one. Not only for art and music, but for engineering and psychology. Although focused on his idea of the musical object, the Treatise on Musical Objects is an oasis…
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Adam Basanta’s ‘Small Movements’, the Fragile Dialogue Between Feedback, microsound and Tiny Spaces
We have before featured Adam Basanta’s work, which has been predominantly developed on installations in which he uses miniature audio systems, controlled feedback, kinetic structures and a fantastic dialogue of both small and big spaces to create intricate works both aural and conceptually…
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Acoustic Museums and Byzantine Churches
USC Viterbi School of Engineering has an interesting project on acoustic archaeology called Acoustic Museums. Episode 1 features interesting explorations on Byzantine sound. “Collecting the Google Earth of Sound. An international, trans-disciplinary team of researchers take us to Thessaloniki, Greece to…