Texts
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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…
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Sounds That Changed The Course Of History
Very nice post by David Hendy at Huffington Post: 10 sounds that changed the course of history. History always conjures up striking images for us – gory battlefield deaths, royal courts shadowed with intrigue, revolutionary violence and heroism, turbulent cityscapes,…
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Jay-Dea Lopez show at Australia’s ABC Radio National
Soundproof: a one-hour radio-show featuring field recordings and compositional works by field recordists. Jay-Dea Lopez recently curated a show about field recording and “sound art” for Soundproof on Australia’s ABC Radio National. For one-hour Miyuki Jokiranta and Jay-Dea discussed the physicality…
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Three New Books: On Acousmatic Sound, Sonic Continuum and Orality
Here are three books I’ve been exploring recently and strongly recommend. All of them have been written by well-known sound theorists and were released in June/July. In general, I’d say the texts are dedicated to explore different aspects of sound, mainly featuring a…
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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…
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infinite grain 04: richard chartier
[infinite grain is a series of interviews inspired on microsound procedures, exploring a wide variety of topics in dialogue with artists who work with sound on installation, composition and improvisation] Richard Chartier needs no introduction. His work has been traveling across the ears…