Last week, one of my students brought me a composition he made, which was using combination tones in an interesting compositional context, and that gave me a nudge to do some experimenting on the issue, here I’ll share what I’ve found interesting. This is a psychoacoustic phenomenon in which, when at least two tones with [...]
If you’ve ever watched a movie in a movie theater, chances are that you are familiar with the “Deep Note”, the audio logo of THX. That sound is one of the first sounds we hear at the beginning of movie trailers in a THX-certified venue. I’ve always been fascinated with that great distinctive crescendo, starting [...]
I’ve received a couple of mails asking me about the details of the facilities freesound provides for easy sample search and retrieval from programs one can write in different languages to incorporate the system in ones own programs. When I first started looking at this some months ago, I found it hard to find info [...]
Those of you familiar with linux-audio hackery might know the great time-frequency analyser software called baudline. It is an amazing tool for frequency domain visualization of sound, and it also has scientific measurement tools and time domain visualization features built-in. The application runs on Linux and Solaris SPARC natively, and is not open source. The [...]
I’ve spent some hours searching for a free way of syncing local folders (backup copies) to my websites. I wanted a program to look at my ftp file tree, compare it with the local copy and download ONLY the changed files (determined by size and modification date) to my computer. The reverse of the operation [...]
What do they have to do with each other? Well, Tao is a software package built for sound synthesis with physical models. I’ve recently found out about this software after seeing a link for it in the Supercollider mailing list. It is a software project initiated and executed by Mark Pearson and Niall Moody that [...]