Category: sonicArts

Just a reminder of upcoming due dates, and notice of a take-home quiz. Oct. 9, Listening Quiz 2 Oct. 11, Negative Space multi-track projects due Oct. 11, Take-home quiz handed out, covering all topics from beginning of semester.

Chapter 6 of An Introduction to Music Technology covers the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). You should read the chapter as outlined below: the transport (and main clock) tracks (output assignments) edit view mix view SKIP THE RECORDING SECTION monitoring and latency editing mixing (automation: volume and panning) bounce down Under the topic of editing, you only…

Because I haven’t written a full post on how to use Audacity, I thought I would at least put up some tips for common tasks. Signal Processing In Peak, most of your processing commands are in the DSP menu, with plugins in a separate Plugins menu. In Audacity, most of your processing commands are in…

Pro Tools and DAWs Unlike stereo audio editors, Pro Tools is an example of a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Pro Tools relies (mostly) on non-destructive processing and mixing. The program allows for multiple sounds to be used at once by reading from the multiple sound files, applying gain changes as indicated by mix commands, and…

Negative Space Multi-Track Project (Due 10/11, 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…

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…