Category: sonicArts

Some links and preference settings to help get you started in Logic Pro X manuals You can find Logic Pro X manuals (user guide, instrument guide, etc.) at Apple – Support – Manuals. preferences (Logic Pro X > Preferences…) General > Editing > Right mouse button is assignable as a tool Audio > Choose your…

negative space multi-track project due: 10/9 (at the start of class) Wikipedia defines negative space “as the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, and not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space is occasionally used to artistic effect…

Listening List 2 (Quiz 10/9) Pierre Henry: Variations for a door and a sigh, 1963 (excerpt) Paul Lansky: idle chatter, 1985 Annea Lockwood: World Rhythms, 1975 Otto Luening: Low Speed, 1952 Tod Machover: Flora, 1989 Ake Parmerud: Repulse, 1986 Laurie Spiegel: Appalachian Grove I, 1974 Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kontakte (1958 – 1960) (excerpt) Edgard Varese: Poeme Electronique, 1958 Joji Yuasa, Projection Esemplastic, 1964 A zip file of the…

While I didn’t go over all of these techniques in class today, this post will outline the basic techniques you can use in Adobe Audition to create your two-track musique concrète project. I’ll post a follow-up on similar techniques in Audacity. using audition Audition uses an integrated window that contains a listing of open files,…

Starting your first musique concrete project usually requires a new way of thinking about music and working with sound in general. To help you organize your work in the early stages, I’m going to summarize some key points, tools, and procedures. sound sources The starting assumption is that you want to create a piece of…

You will want some interesting sounds for your 2-track musique concrète project. You can record them with one of the portable recorders, or you can use a sound library of pre-existing recordings. freesound.org freesound is an online library of royalty free audio recordings. You have to create an account (free) to download files. You can…

Although I’ve posted the details of the musique concrète project to Blackboard, I’ll also post it here for ease of linking. Project Description Create a concrete music composition using three to five recorded sound sources, lasting at least 1 minute. Your tools will be Audacity or Audition, and classic concrete music editing procedures such as…

As you review leading up to the quiz on Thursday, here are the properties of audio (physical and perceptual) that I want you to know. Physical properties are things we can measure. Perceptual properties describe how humans perceive specific physical properties. In general, human perception is exponentially related to physical properties. frequency and pitch Frequency is…

Some of you have worked with basic audio editing; some have not. This post is designed as a starting resource for the basic audio editing you will need to do for your Soundwalk assignment, and it also covers one of the quirks (saving audio files) of Audacity. preparation Before you begin, make copies of all…