Music related stuff
I am teaching two courses this semester: Sound theory 1 (in English) Sound analysis (in Norwegian, together with Rolf Inge Godøy) In both courses I use Pure Data (PD) for demonstrating various interesting phenomena (additive synthesis, beating, critical bands, etc.), and the students also get various assignments to explore such things themselves. There are several PD [...]
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Seems like the new MT9 format, or Music 2.0 as the company Audizen calls it, is all over the news these days. The idea is simple, and has been explored for years in the research community: distribute multichannel audio, so that the end user can have control over the single tracks. The problem of course [...]
Read more →I am doing some “house-cleaning” on my computer, and came across the link to the OLPC Sound Samples which were announced last month. This collection covers a lot of different sounds, ranging from the Berklee samples to sets created by people in the CSound community. Obviously, not all the 10GB is equally interesting, but the [...]
Read more →In a presentation at the Society for Music Theory 2002 Conference, 2002, David Huron proposed 21 listening modes: Distracted listening Tangential listening Metaphysical listening Signal listening Sing-along listening Lyric listening Programmatic listening Allusive listening Reminiscent listening Identity listening Retentive listening Fault listening Feature listening Innovation listening Memory scan listening Directed listening Distance listening Ecstatic listening [...]
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The location of the EyesWeb Week is the facilities of the DIST group in the beautiful Casa Paganina, including a large auditorium next to the laboratories. This allows for an ecological setting for experiments, since performers can actually perform on a real stage with real audience. I wish we could have something like this in [...]
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