reverb

  • The Importance of Sound in Architecture

    The Importance of Sound in Architecture

    The New York Times has published a very interesting article around sound and architecture, featuring some wonderful exercises in audio and video. We talk about how cities and buildings look. We call places landmarks or eyesores. But we rarely talk…

  • OpenAIR, A Collective Library of Impulse Responses

    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,…

  • Free Teufelsberg NSA listening tower impulse responses

    Free Teufelsberg NSA listening tower impulse responses

    Amidst increasing concern about data privacy and how our personal data is being handled we bring you a bit of sonic surveillance history: a set of reverb impulse responses allowing you to use the acoustics of the main listening tower…

  • Echoing the Otherworld

    Echoing the Otherworld

    Our reader Gautam Pemmaraju, who is also columnist at the great 3quarksdaily blog, has pointed me to a great post he published some months ago, dedicated to explore reverb and echo effects from a mysterious and interesting approach. The whispering gallery…

  • emiliano romanelli – 333 loops (volume 1)

    emiliano romanelli – 333 loops (volume 1)

    Sound is not in space; sound is space. For the listener, space is just echo, and echo is sound. The acoustic dimension is 100% full of sonic matter able to build the illusion of space depending on its transformation, malleability, resonance, multiplication; elements that, when explored correctly,…