sonic environment
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Decomposing Landscape
The concept of landscape has been dominated by certain discourses, and when it comes to sound, what we call landscape, transcends the visual realm but also gets exposed to a perspective that is not necessarily only apart of what we see,…
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Cathedrals: Pietro Riparbelli Audio Archive Project
“I have always been fascinated by sacred places and by the atmosphere of contemplative peace and I have always listened to and recorded their acoustic environments. At some point I felt the need to transform this passion of mine into…
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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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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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Morske Orgulje, An Organ that is Played by the Sea
In the last few days there has been a lot of hype over the Internet about this beautiful project called Morske Orgulje (Sea Organ), an architectonic musical instrument built in Zadar, Croatia, and created for playing sound as it is triggered by…
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The Disruptive Nature of Listening, by Hildegard Westerkamp
Hildegard Westerkamp has published in her site at SFU a transcription of the keynote address at the International Symposium on Electronic Art, held in Vancouver, Canada in August 18 this year. Below is the abstract: A true state of listening cannot…