Lately I have received several promotions for software designed to take a text file and convert it into natural speech. The idea is one can produce narration or other oral information without hiring a professional narrator. Although I will get to certain issues related to text to speech, it will be useful to begin with…
VISUAL ART AND SOUND
This post is about sound environments for visual artists, such as painters, photographers, sculptors, etc. I am primarily talking about sound in a gallery display of such art more than, say, a film made about a certain artist’s work or a multimedia immersive work of art. If you read to the end you will learn…
Electronic Music – then/now
This post covers a topics touched upon also in other posts, but was inspired by the fact that the term “electronic music” has taken on new meanings over the years and now can cause confusion. In order to set an appropriate context, however, I need to start by describing a bit about the history of…
Analog vs Digital Recordings
Lately I have been reading articles and posts by people who say they love vinyl records better than CDs or downloads. Usually they say that is because they prefer analog to digital. In this post I will first talk about the differences in the ways analog and digital sound information is stored, then I will…
STREAM ON
This post is the result of a statistic I read recently on the internet. It noted that last year the number of sales of vinyl records equaled the number of CDs sold that year. The context was the supposed “comeback” of the vinyl record. Vinyl records do have appeal to some people, such as those…