Archive for August 2014
Michel Chion’s “Guide to Sound Objects: Pierre Schaeffer and Musical Research”
Posted on: August 26, 2014
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Reblogged from Binary Heap:
“Our ambition, with this Guide to Sound Objects, has always been to give researchers, musicians, music-lovers and all who are directly or indirectly interested in the sound-universe an unbiased, clear and dependable tool (if this can be done) for a better knowledge and understanding of Pierre Schaeffer’s considerable contribution to this field, by means of an inventory of the ideas and concepts developed in his most important work, the Traité des Objets Musicaux.”
Download PDF : Guide To Sound Objects
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Feminatronic has a YouTube Channel highlighting Artists and their Channels and each month I will be putting the spotlight on a Featured Channel.
This month –
Aether Zither
Posted on: August 10, 2014
There seems to be something wrong with this video, but the result blends in nicely with the sounds generated by the zither:
Meng Qi is a noise boxes builder from China and versions of this instrument seem to be for sale, see http://mengqimusic.com/AetherZither :
Aether Zither 以太筝 - built by Meng Qi, is an electro-acoustic musical instrument. It’s playing surface is assembled with springs, speakers, knobs and touch points. The combination of mechanical and electric aspects makes it an one of a kind and fully expressive instrument.
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The Synthesis engine of AZ - Sidrassi, designed by Peter Blasser - is a true analog polyphonic synthesizer circuit. It has an unique approach regarding synthesis principle. There is a parameter called chaos - it controls the modulation depth among the voices, which would result in different level of noisy texture. Addtional to it, there are also touch points which allows the player to perform touch circuit-bend.
More information:
- Meng Qi website
A History of Sound Art
Posted on: August 10, 2014
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