translation
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Translating Ambience
Translating Ambiance is an exhibition that emerges from an Australian Research Council grant (DECRA) awarded to Jordan Lacey entitled Translating Ambiance: restorative sound design for urban soundscapes (2019 – 21). The research aims to discover a methodology for translating the ambiance of natural places into…
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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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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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The Visual Microphone, Translating Subtle Vibrations into Audio (from Video)
Interesting project by MIT scientists who have found a way of translating subtle vibrations of solid objects into audio information, through the use of high-speed cameras. When sound hits an object, it causes small vibrations of the object’s surface. We show…