With the Covid-19 precautions we have had since March of 2020 a lot of communication I am involved with has been via Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams and similar apps. I notice that some people use these more effectively than others, both in terms of the sound and of the visual images of themselves. I will…
CAPTURE OR CREATE?
I work both in professional photography (mostly fine art) and professional audio recording (especially classical music and spoken word). I am going to start this point with a discussion of photographic approaches, then show how the same ideas apply to audio recording. I first want to contrast captured images with created images. My goal is…
TEXT TO SPEECH
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…