Doppler effect

The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift), named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who proposed it in 1842 in Prague, is the change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for an observer moving relative to its source. It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer. The received frequency is higher (compared to the emitted frequency) during the approach, it is identical at the instant of passing by, and it is lower during the recession.

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect

Physics of sound

Program: Nature of Things with David Suzuki.
Chapter: Voices in the wind.
Topic: Physics of sound.

Quodlibet

Emmanuel Nunes, compositor português. "Ao longo da sua obra três elementos emergem como referências fundamentais: a reflexão sobre o tempo, a atenção dada ao espaço, e a ideia omnipresente de intencionalidade, tanto da escuta como da composição."

acoustic levitation

Deixo um vídeo que exemplifica um fenómeno físico chamado "levitação acústica", que tem sido desenvolvido no Argonne National Laboratory. Neste caso, fazem levitar gotas de soluções farmacêuticas entre um campo de ondas sonoras, o que pode levar à descoberta de novas drogas ou substâncias. Já se tentou também com pequenos insectos ou outros pequenos objectos. Como qualquer descoberta do género, há já toda uma série de teorias "da conspiração", ou não, sobre como se contruiam templos no antigo Egipto e como se conseguiam transportar tão pesadas pedras, ou também sobre como os monges tibetanos conseguiam levitar.
Se quiserem aprender mais, aqui fica: http://www.anl.gov/articles/no-magic-show-real-world-levitation-inspire-better-pharmaceuticals

Your Face

Bill Plymton curta "For this one, he contacted Maureen McElheron, an old friend with whom he had performed in a Country Western Band (he played pedal steel guitar), and she agreed to score "Your Face." Due to budgetary considerations, she also sang. Her voice, eerily decelerated to sound more masculine, combined with a fantastically contorting visage helped garner the film a 1988 Oscar nomination for best animated short."

Instalações Sonoras Zimoun

Deixo-vos com um video do trabalho do artista Zimoun.

http://vimeo.com/32012831

Atendimento

Informo todos os alunos que esta quarta-feira à tarde (28/11) estarei disponível para atendimento mediante marcação prévia por email.

Instrumental (Apartment Objects) - Flight Of The Conchords

Sampled Room

Sampled Room from Mateusz Zdziebko on Vimeo.

"This is an example, how to use the basic stuff in your room in such creative and musician way. Just take some noisy and voiced objects and record them with any sampler."

THE EXTERNAL WORLD

The Evolution of 8-Bit Art

Music for your 8bit adventure

music for your 8bit adventure through spacetime from fuckitfireeverything on 8tracks Radio.

"The Future of Music: Credo" by John Cage

Most inventors of electrical musical instruments have attempted to imitate eighteenth- and nineteenth- century instruments, just as early automobile designers copied the carriage. The Novachord and the Solovox are examples of this desire to imitate the past rather than construct the future. When Theremin provided an instrument with genuinely new possibilities, Thereministes did their utmost to make the instrument sound like some old instrument, giving It a sickeningly sweet vibrato, and performing upon it, with difficulty, masterpieces from the past. Although the instrument is capable of a wide variety of sound qualities, obtained by the turning of a dial, Thereministes act as censors, giving the public those sounds they think the public will like. We are shielded from new sound experiences.

At http://helios.hampshire.edu/~hacu123/papers/cage.html

Beatsurfing - The Organic MIDI Controller Builder - Official Teaser

BEATSURFING - THE ORGANIC MIDI CONTROLLER BUILDER
beatsurfing.net

It allows you to draw a 3-dimensional controller and use it in two different and complementary ways. You can tap it like you would with your regular MPC or any other beatmaking device, but the best and most innovative use you can make of it is definitely by surfing your fingers along routes, colliding with objects, triggering samples or effects. It’s all about movement, and bringing back this intuitive way to make music.

It can control any MIDI-enabled device (Software, Hardware, or even selected iPad apps through Virtual MIDI), features a very intuitive in-app editing system and integrates seemlessly in any existing Studio or Live setup.

Objects Behaviours can be set to link objects together and multiply the available commands on the surface of the iPad.

Look at me now (kinetic typography)

Monster Tubulum

Time to Start (the first cut) was the first video I uploaded here - other than the ever-popular tubulum head layout animation - and has since become a clear favourite on this channel. It recently celebrated its 1000th view.

In honour of this milestone, I resolved to create a version of Time to Start actually worthy of being the most popular video on this channel.

So here it is, complete with 37 cuts and an extended intermission, for your entertainment. (it's just one of those things so terribly long you can't help but watch, hoping something will happen).

P.P.S. Yeah, that's actually me playing the audio. I built a frickin' monster tubulum, what reason could I possibly have not to use it?

--Jerry

5 ways to listen better & 4 ways sound affects us—Julian Treasure

The Aquasonic Waterphone

http://www.thomasgrillo.com
Originally invented by Richard Waters, the waterphone contains a small amount of water which moves around inside the waterphone, and causes constant changes in pitch.

This particular waterphone was produced by a metal sculptor in New York City under the brand name "Aquasonic". It can now be purchased at:http://www.thewaterphone.com/ as well as http://gallery93.com/

We correctly call it the "waterphone" as the name rightfully reflects the name of it's original inventor, Richard Waters, and the fact that it uses water to help produce the strange etherial tones.

Watch as Thomas Grillo endures one minor technical difficulty after another as he attempts to demonstrate the Aquasonic Super Mondo Waterphone.

Interaction & sound

Screen Capture to Sound – by Satoru Higa

Some time ago Zach Lieberman posted code on the oF forums which allows you to show the pixels directly below the openFrameworks app window in a texture. This little app Satoru Higa (4nchor5 la6/rhizomatiks) uses the same method to create a music sequencer. Each time app is ran, the transparent window uses the desktop as the source for sound. The colour and the position of the colours below decides the pitch, tone and tempo. As you drag the window around the desktop or add additional ones you can further create compositions.

At http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/capture-to-sound-by-satoru-higa/

Synths

Monotron at http://www.korg.com/monotrons



MeeBlip at http://meeblip.com/

Pd & Max

Pd
http://puredata.info/
http://www.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/
http://puredata.info/docs/ResourcesToStartLearning
http://puredata.info/docs/BooksAboutPd 

Max
http://cycling74.com/

György Ligeti - Poema sinfónico para 100 Metrónomos

Universe Sound

Foley!

Graphical Disk Player

Dyskograf from Jesse Lucas on Vimeo.

"To do List"

Prazos P02

Conforme anunciado na aula de hoje, os prazos da proposta de trabalho 2 ficam adiados para:

• Entrega da memória descritiva: 29/11/2012, 19:00.
• Apresentação: 30/11/2012, 9:30 AM—turma 1; e 14:00—turma 2.

Mackie Glossary of Pro Audio Terms

www.mackie.com/pdf/glossary.pdf

Como seria um clipe sem o instrumental?

Um usuário do YouTube imaginou como seria o clipe de Gangnam Style sem o instrumental da música, editado com o áudio ambiente nos locais da gravação, fez a montagem e divulgou em seu canal.
Como seria o clipe de Gangnam Style sem o instrumental?

Learn to Listen

Aqui está um vídeo, do qual o som foi captado meticulosamente. Ouve-se perfeitamente o respirar e as pingas de água.

Physics of Sound

"The Three Listening Modes" by Michel Chion

When we ask someone to speak about what they have heard, their answers are striking for the heterogeneity of levels of hearing to which they refer. This is because there are at least three modes of listening, each of which addresses different objects. We shall call them causal listening, semantic listening, and reduced listening.

At http://helios.hampshire.edu/~hacu123/papers/chion.html.

Vocaloid

Imagem retirada do http://http://shinigamipower.blogspot.pt

Quando comecei a conhecer o mundo do design fiz parte de um projeto, a FOP Magazine, para a qual escrevi um artigo sobre Vocaloid. Achei que era interessante mostrar-vos já que neste momento estamos a dar o módulo de som e as variadas formas de o criar. Convém referir que o importante é o conteúdo do artigo já que o design é bastante rudimentar e a forma de escrita pode não ser a melhor.
Podem ler o respetivo artigo aqui.

Células de lula que reagem ao som

"Chromatophores are muscle-controlled pigment cells in the skin of cephalopods, such as squid, octopus, and cuttlefish. These chromatophores expand and contract on command in order to help the animal blend in with its surroundings, or to communicate with other animals."

Pachelbel - Canon in D

Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain

Einstein on the Beach de Philip Glass

Philip Glass é um nome de impacto no universo musical da actualidade. Minimalista, extremamente matemático na composição compôs a obra "Einstein on The Beach" - uma ópera incrível da qual decidi mostrar-vos este "Knee 5". Caso se interessem, ouçam toda a obra: tem algum carácter experimental de composição que podem não ser exactamente o que vamos trabalhar neste projecto, mas que podem sempre contribuir positivamente na nossa cultura musical. :)

Como os efeitos sonoros são feitos

Estes videos mostram como os efeitos sonoros são produzidos e gravados para um filme. O interessante é que alguns sons são feitos com objectos que eu nunca imaginaria...




Este tambem é interessante, mas não dava para incorporar, por isso deixo-vos com o link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKDjLseCyVw

Livio Minafra

Livio Minafra

Assisti a um concerto deste compositor e pianista, no festival 12 points apresentado na Casa da Música.
Durante os concertos, Livio Minafra vai colocando objectos dentro do piano que alteram o som das notas. Para além disso, acrescenta outros métodos menos convencionais à sua música.

Virtual Barber Shop

You'll need headphones for this to work. Make sure there is no noise around, close your eyes, turn the volume up a little bit, hold and press headphone on your ears for better hearing, play it and enjoy this impressive audio work.

CREDITS: This amazing audio clip was created by QSound Labs ( http://www.qsound.com ) as a demonstration of Binaural audio technology.

See this wikipedia entry for information about binaural recordings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording

LOOM

Loom from Polynoid on Vimeo.

Loom tells the story of a successful catch.

Year: 2010
Length: 5'20"
Directors: Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Csaba Letay
Technical director: Fabian Pross
Production company: Filmakademie BW
Producer: Regina Welker
Sound: Joel Corelitz / waveplant
Artists:Felix Mertikat, Jin-Ho Jeon, Roman Kälin, Tom Weber, Christian Hertwig, Silke Finger, Jacob Frey, Leszek Plichta, Georg Schneider, Anja Wacker, Andreas 'Felix' Gebhardt, Falko Paeper, Sarah Eim
5.1 Mix: David Axelbaum / Airstream Audio

Unnamed Soundsculpture

o que interessa, neste caso, é o som produzido: uma mistura de explosões com o rebentar daquelas bolhinhas dos plásticos que revestem os vidros, que depois se enquadra com o instrumento, aumentando o carácter enigmático do som.
O nome do vídeo também não é por acaso, já que a próprio câmara também reagia ao som.

O conceito do projecto, está explicado aqui:

The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating
a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For
our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by
Machinenfabriek) as closely as possible by movements of her body. She was
recorded by three depth cameras (Kinect), in which the intersection of the
images was later put together to a three-dimensional volume (3d point cloud),
so we were able to use the collected data throughout the further process.
The three-dimensional image allowed us a completely free handling of the
digital camera, without limitations of the perspective. The camera also reacts
to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the
performer. She moves to a noise field, where a simple modification of the
random seed can consistently create new versions of the video, each offering
a different composition of the recorded performance. The multi-dimensionality
of the sound sculpture is already contained in every movement of the dancer,
as the camera footage allows any imaginable perspective.

texto de Sandra Moskova, 
projecto de Daniel Franke e Cedric Kiefer

VISUAL MUSIC FOR10VOICES

In Barthes' essay, "The Grain of the Voice", the concept of the "genosong" was evoked to separate the sound of the voice from its language. Visual Music for Ten Voices distinguishes the physicality of the optical vocal track as having a unique identity from its actual resonance in sound films. Designed as a 10-foot black box projection loop, this film focuses on the rhythm and materiality of ten 35mm optical soundtracks. Each musical passage maintains its original length and linear harmony with the other tracks, collectively creating a new sense of motion and repetition.

Embedding a YouTube Video

To embed a video from YouTube, just follow these simple steps:

1 - Click on the "Share" button underneath the YouTube video.
2 - Select "Show more," and then click on the Blogger icon.
3 - Depending on whether or not you're signed in to your blog, you might have to enter in your username and password in the new window that pops up.
4 - At the top of the new window, choose the blog you would like to post to from the drop-down menu.
5 - Publish your post!

Alternatively, you can copy the embed code and paste it into your blog. 

1 - Just click on "Share" and then on "Embed" to find the embed code.
2 - Copy the code, then paste it into your blog while on the "Edit HTML" tab (as opposed to the "Compose" tab).

At http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80767

Kaukas- animation

Music from Nature

Diego Stocco - Music from Nature from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

Chernobyl Diaries

Chernobyl-Diaries

Scott Cazan

"Scott Cazan is a performer/composer and sound artist specializing in the performance of experimental electronic music where he explores human relations with technology, the act of listening and the physicality of sound." http://scottcazan.net/index.php/works

Cidade de Braga

Este vídeo consiste numa pequena apresentação da cidade de Braga, que por sinal é Capital Europeia da Juventude.

http://vimeo.com/45683390

Sinestesia

Soundscape

A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The study of soundscape is the subject of acoustic ecology. The idea of soundscape refers to both the natural acoustic environment, consisting of natural sounds, including animal vocalizations and, for instance, the sounds of weather and other natural elements; and environmental sounds created by humans, through musical composition, sound design, and other ordinary human activities including conversation, work, and sounds of mechanical origin resulting from use of industrial technology. The disruption of these acoustic environments results in noise pollution.

The term "soundscape" can also refer to an audio recording or performance of sounds that create the sensation of experiencing a particular acoustic environment, or compositions created using the found sounds of an acoustic environment, either exclusively or in conjunction with musical performances.

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundscape and http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/Soundscape.html

Between Bears- animation

Between Bears from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.

MONKEY DRUMMER

Noise rock, avant-garde

The work consists of two side-long pastiches of various songs from the period. The liner notes state that approximately 30 songs have been utilised. Some are obvious, while others are almost unrecognizable.

• Tons puros - compostos por uma única frequência. É o caso mais simples;
• Sons musicais - compostos por uma frequência fundamental (que dá a tonalidade) e várias frequências de valor múltiplo inteiro da fundamental (harmónicas), dependendo do timbre. É o caso dos sinais de voz;
• Ruído - composto por inúmeras frequências sem que exista um padrão que as relacione directamente. O resultado é um sinal complexo, sem uma frequência fundamental fixa, sendo portanto um sinal não periódico. Estes sinais têm um comportamento imprevisível e, consequentemente, são difíceis de caracterizar com exactidão.

But what about the noise...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyHWLkU7PgQ&feature=related

Someone Like Me

4'33

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3

I am sitting in a room with Alvin Lucier and John Cage

I am sitting in a room (Alvin Lucier, 1969).

But what about the noise of crumpling paper which he used to do in order to paint the series of "Papiers froisses" or tearing up paper to make "Papiers dechires?" Arp was stimulated by water (sea, lake, and flowing waters like rivers), forests, for percussion ensemble (John Cage, 1985).

Listening to La Jetée

Audacity & Ardour—software

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals about free and open source software together with the tools used to create them and the community that uses those tools.
http://www.flossmanuals.net/audacity/

record
mix
edit
collaborate

http://ardour.org/

Pulp Pixelz

Sounds of Aronofsky

 http://vimeo.com/42191484

We're Alive (zombie podcast)

Série dramática sobre um "Apocalipse" de zombis, ao estilo de The Walking Dead, transmitida apenas em audio.

http://www.zombiepodcast.com/

Primeiro episódio:

http://werealive.info/wnd/episodes/wa-1-1-itbegins.mp3

Out of Sight

Um vídeo que demonstra a importância de estarmos ou não atentos aos sons à nossa volta e como eles nos podem influenciar.

Why's sound so important?

from SoundCloud

'We love sound. Hear from sound experts and friends of SoundCloud why sound is so important to the way we connect with the world.'

vídeo

Ilusão Sonora

Se ainda não conhecerem, ouçam com headphones, sem barulho à volta e com os olhos fechados. Vão ter a percepção do espaço utilizando unicamente o som.

Solipsist

Este vídeo é psicadelicamente fantástico. Postei-o, porque acho que o som se adapta totalmente à narrativa.

Se logo no início do filme fecharmos os olhos, ouvimos sons que dão a entender que há vermes e outros bichos nojentos a aparecer. Quando os abrimos, não aparecem vermes, mas sim espécies de plumas coloridas com adereços. A verdade, é que esse dito som de verme antecede os 'verdadeiros vermes' que cobrem a cara das duas primeiras personagens'. Este é apenas uma só explicação para a minha opinião. Não darem mais, porque estaria a ser spoiler.

Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang
andrewthomashuang.com

WINNER at SLAMDANCE 2012 of the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short

Facebook facebook.com/AndrewThomasHuang
facebook.com/Solipsistfilm
Twitter - twitter.com/Andrew_T_Huang
Tumblr - andrewthomashuang.tumblr.com/

Original Soundtrack: itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-nautilus-diary/id514184687

Cast Featuring: Mary Elise Hayden, Marissa Merrill & Dustin Edward

Executive Producers: David Lyons & Andrew Huang
Producers: Laura Merians & Stephanie Marshall
Cinematographer: Laura Merians
Production Designer: Hugh Zeigler
Costume Designer: Lindsey Mortensen
Hair & Makeup Designer: Jennifer Cunningham
Sound Design & Original Score: Andrew Huang

A Moo Studios & Future You Production

Copyright 2012 Andrew Huang All Rights Reserved.

Papo & Yo

Papo & Yo é um jogo que conta a história de Quico e do seu amigo Monstro que, apesar da sua aparência, não assusta Quico. No entanto, Monstro é viciado em sapos e quando come um, a raiva que lhe provoca (induzida pelos sapos) torna-o violento e ninguém, nem mesmo Quico, está seguro. Mesmo assim, Quico adora Monstro e quer salvá-lo.
 Juntos resolverão problemas e aventurar-se-ão por um mundo mágico e surrealista. Os jogadores terão que aprender a usar as emoções de Monstro, tanto as boas como as más, para o seu próprio benefício, se quiserem completar a busca para curar o seu amigo.
(http://www.weareminority.com/papo-yo/)

Trailer:


Diário de desenvolvimento do jogo:


O jogo está disponível para o sistema PS3.

Spooky stop-motion

Rot from Erica Luke on Vimeo.

Em honra do Halloween passado

A Year in Full Colour - Moleskine Planners

Em 2003, a BBC realizou um documentário sobre o som e a sua produção, chamado:

'The Alchemists of Sound'

também está no youtube, mas com qualidade muito baixa. 

Take A Listening Walk and Learn To Listen

Taking time to listen to the sounds around us is worth the effort. We live in an acoustic environment full of subtle and not so subtle sounds that both enrich and detract from our daily life. Giving attention to these acoustical events not only enhances our appreciation of natural and human soundscapes but also makes us aware of endangered sounds and those sounds, which like weeds, may be destroying the soundscape.

By Gary Ferrington, at http://www.acousticecology.org/writings/ferr-walk.html

STOMP