Category: sonicArts

For now, I’m mostly going to link to previous posts about Cecilia. You can download Cecilia4 for Mac and Windows from Google Code. There is a version 5 of the software but it does not include the Filter Warper, which is central to a lot of granular processing. Cecilia basics Using the filter warper in…

I have covered this topic in detail using digital performer 7 and earlier versions. Digital Performer 8 moves some commands around and has slightly different dialog windows. Bouncing to disk is how you arrive at a single stereo audio file of your entire multi-track project. Bouncing to disk processes all of your soundbites and the non-destructive…

I have two introductory posts to Digital Performer, complete with screen shots, that should help you setup a DP project and get started with some basic audio editing for the Negative Space project. Digital Performer Intro, part 1 Digital Performer Intro, part 2

Review outline for Tuesday’s quiz In-Class Portion: Listening List 2 Analog recording process (from sound production to recording; from playback to arriving at listener) Transduction, and the ability to state the type of energy being transduced at each point in the recording process Generational loss Digital recording process (from sound production to digital recording and…

MUST 121 students need to know the following information by memory for the in-class portion of the Quiz on Tuesday, 9/24. Other information from this section of the class will be covered in the take-home portion of the quiz. Analog Recording Analog recording involves the transduction of energy from one form to another. With analog…

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During the 11 am section I introduced Adobe Audition and made videos from screen captures. I’ve uploaded the videos to iLocker. You can download them for playback at any time. The videos include my lecture along with the audio produced from Audition. Video 1: Intro to Audition, setting up audio hardware preferences, basic program layout…

Listening List 2 (Quiz 9/24) 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…

I have two previous posts on properties of sound: http://wp.me/p1fcCf-sl http://wp.me/p1fcCf-sT And a map from today’s lecture: Properties of Sound

I’ve posted a summary of “what is sound?” previously in the blog. You can read it here. I’m also uploading a pdf of a branch of the mindmap that Nathan and I created for class. You can down load it: WhatIsSound?.