SOUNDSCAPES This is part three of a four-part series about my own odyssey as a sound composer/designer. It is an expanded version of the topics I presented at Invisible Places 2017, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores, in April 2017. In part two of this series I described how I have used algorithmic techniques to create…
ODYSSEY OF A SOUND COMPOSER — PT. 2 of 4
This is part two of a four-part series about my own odyssey as a sound composer/designer. It is an expanded version of the topics I presented at Invisible Places 2017, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores, in April 2017. PART 2—ALGORITHMS AND SAMPLES In part one of this series I discussed becoming interested in creating electronic…
ODYSSEY OF A SOUND COMPOSER — PT. 1 of 4
INTRODUCTION This is a four-part series about my own odyssey as a sound composer/designer. It is an expanded version of the topics I presented at Invisible Places 2017, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores in April 2017. PART 1. MUSIC FROM ELECTRICITY Electronic music as we know it was essentially created in the 1940s, though there…
ICAD REPORT
This is a summary of the International Conference on Audio Display held this year at Pennsylvania State University, June 20-23, 2017. ICAD started in 1992 as a conference. When they later decided to incorporate as a non-profit organization they registered that as The International Community for Audio Display (also abbreviated ICAD). The focus of the…
TALK RADIO
This post is not about the content of talk radio programs, but about the sound of talkers on talk radio, especially those not in the studio where the program originates. This will not be an extremely complex technical article (I hope) though some technical material needs to be presented in a simplified (perhaps over-simplified) way. If…
RECORDING NATURE – PART 2
This is the second part of a two-part series (so far) on recording nature. The first part dealt with some common technology used to record the sounds of nature. This part highlights some recordists, most of whom I have met (and some I know well), who work in this area. The idea of doing this…
RECORDING NATURE – PART 1
This post is in response to an email I received recently. A reader of this site had seen a television feature about the nature sound recordist Gordon Hempton and thought it would make for a good blog post. Actually I have met any number of nature sound recordists, including Mr. Hempton, so I think it…
