Author: Keith Kothman

Our next listening Quiz will Oct. 9 (not at all what the syllabus says). You can download the entire list from iLocker (listening2.zip). You will again be responsible for knowing the title and composer, with extra points for the year composed. (I won’t be giving you a list of composition years on the quiz.) I…

SoundHack is a free audio processing application with a great deal of power, if you can get past the ’90s interface and non-standard menu commands. SoundHack performs a single audio process (at a time) on a whole file. As such, it lacks a graphic waveform view, but does allow for function drawing in a somewhat…

With your project due this Thursday (9/20), I’m not expecting any reading to be done before the following Tuesday (9/25). From Audio Culture: Brian Eno, “Ambient Music” (AC, pp. 94 – 97) Pauline Oliveros, “Some Sound Observations” (AC, pp. 102 – 106) From An Introduction to Music Technology: Chapter 4: Audio Hardware Chapter 4 includes…

Pushing ahead with reading. From Audio Culture, read the following: The introduction to Part II, Modes of Listening (pp. 65 – 66) The gray pages of quotes immediately before it, on pp. 63 – 64. Pierre Schaeffer, Acousmatics (Ch. 14, pp. 76 – 81)

To follow up on basic sound properties from a previous post, and to complete our review of chapter 2 in Hoskens, you should know these concepts. Frequency In addition to the previous post which covered the frequency to pitch relationship, and how we measure frequency, you need to understand the concept of the period of a…

We need to press ahead with our technical knowledge. From An Introduction to Music Technology, read: Chapter 2, “Sound Properties and the Waveform View” Chapter 5, “Digital Audio Data” I’ve covered most of these chapters in class, and will clean up some of the missing stuff today. These two chapters should be mostly review.

For your 2-track collage project I am limiting you to a set of classic concrete music editing and processing techniques: cut/copy/paste gain change (as an envelope, or overall) playback speed change (without maintaining pitch – speed change should create a pitch change) change of direction (reverse) equalization This post gives you the specific commands in…

To study for our upcoming quiz (take-home), please read chapter 2 of Introduction to Music Technology, pp. 17 – 26. This section of chapter two corresponds to the properties of sound that I went over in lecture. You do need to know waveform types at this point, nor envelopes.

To quote the website, freesound.org “is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.” You can share and download sounds, with the sharing terms designated through the type of Creative Commons license specified. As in any free, online archive, the quality of sounds and recordings can vary widely, but you will find a large collection of sounds…

Two-track collage, concrete music Due: September 20, 2012 Project Description Create a concrete music composition using three to five recorded sound sources, lasting at least 1 minute. Your tools will be Peak (and/or Audacity), and classic concrete music editing procedures such as cut/copy/paste, gain change, speed change, change of direction, and equalization. All of your…