Once I thought that silent could be the better solution for developing our creativity. Nothing could be more wrong. Since some years I’m proposing, during my lessons, several hearing situations at very low intensity: overtone singing, noises, high frequencies, ambient music. Sounds good. But not enough. Reading this article on The University of Chicago Press talking about a research (from The Journal of Consumer Research) on this matter, I know I have to change something:
Is noise always bad? Exploring the Effects of Ambient Noise on Creative Cognition
Native Instruments Guitar Rig is a modular effects processor for guitar and bass (and for vocalists, in my opinion). The Player version is free. Its modular and expandable features are very nice, you can choose among about 30 free presets – you can buy more for adding effects, but the default ones are more than enough – each of them editable by:
adding one or more components (filters, delays, compressors, …)
deleting one or more components
changing their sequence
I tried it on mac using guitar and my voice, it plays really good. On this site you can find clear explanations and the downloading page. Pay attention, the whole procedure is a little bit intricate, follow steps exactly.
I suggest to look at the TrevorCox youtube channel, a lot of videos on acoustic processes with interesting explanations.
The video above is very clear about Trevor’s nice madness.
Look at this site too, read and then click on the NEXT button.
An interesting project by a japanese team. It could be possible to codify and to interpret the emotional state of babies analyzing power spectrum and pitch of their crying.
Baby monitors of the future could translate infant cries, so that parents will know for certain whether their child is sleepy, hungry, needing a change, or in pain. Japanese scientists report details of a statistical computer program that can analyze a baby’s crying in the International Journal of Biometrics.
As any new parent knows, babies have a very loud method of revealing their emotional state – crying. Unfortunately, the parenting handbook does not offer guidance on how to determine what the crying means. Parents sometimes learn with experience that their child’s cries may be slightly different depending on their cause, whether hunger or discomfort… Continue reading “An emotion detector for baby”→
From the ashes of dharmasound a new entity is born: dsound.org netlabel, good and free music over the web, different elements and different styles with a special care to experimental sounds.
We are proud to be again online with a new name, new website and a new catalog that we inaugurate with the compilation We Want To Beehivemind, a projects that we launched before the closure of the netlabel dharmasound.
new release
You can listen or download my track Apiarium Humanus, the full release and artwork.
Dopo ogni seminario si riflette, sia da fruitori sia da relatori. Da entrambe le parti si impara qualcosa, e quindi ci si chiede cosa.
Photo by Tran Quang Hai
Anche il recente seminario sul Canto Difonico inserito nell’ambito della 13° Rassegna Musica Diversa – Omaggio a Demetrio Stratos mi ha fatto riflettere, perlomeno per la parte di apertura che mi ha riguardato:
Nell’ambito della 13ª Rassegna di Musica Diversa “Omaggio a Demetrio Stratos” che si terrà il 19 e 20 giugno 2009 presso Alberone di Cento (FE), vi segnalo il Seminario sullo strumento voce, tenuto dal sottoscritto, Tran Quang Hai, Albert Hera e Boris Savoldelli.
Questo è un altro video di Gjertsen che mi piace particolarmente, sia musicalmente – compositore ed esecutore Giovanni Sollima – sia poeticamente.
Lo trovo estremamente saziante.
parole di Gjertsen:
So this is the project I’ve been working on for the last 5 months, and heres how part 1 of it is made:
On the six arms parts, which by the way took most of the time to make, I filmed Sollima playing the different layers of cello after each other. I then edited the video frame by frame in Photoshop (remember, it’s 25 frames per second of video), cutting his arms out from the other layers and pasting it on top, matching the movement of the cello. This was done ca 4000 times, by myself.
The clouds were actually filmed in my backyard, sped up 1250 times. The birds we’re filmed in my town, Larvik, Norway on clear blue sky, so that I could use blue screen keying to put them on top of the clouds. It’s hard to notice, but the birds are moving in half speed slow motion. I also had to stabilize the motion of the birds, since I filmed it with handhelt camcorder. The sequence was cut together using After Effects and Premiere.
The forest, river sequence was photographed in a forest in Arona, Italy. I took a picture ca. every five meters, and morphed the images together using WinMorph, matching the pace of the music.
The zooming sequence is very hard to explain. Basically, the first 8 seconds after it starts zooming and when you see Mr Sollima’s face is real photos. The rest inbetween are “painted” in Photoshop by me.
The rest of this part is merely editing in Premiere and After Effects. Allright!
vConvert è un nuovo servizio online, che ci permette di convertire i video provenienti da YouTube, in tanti formati, come .wmv, .mp4 (dunque per iPod, PSP, iPhone) e molti altri.
Alcune cose che mi hanno colpito di questo sito sono la semplicità nell’utilizzo, veramente estrema, e, soprattutto, la velocità nella conversione di video: ho convertito un video dalla durata di 1 minuto e 11 secondi in .wmw, in meno di 15 secondi.
Soundpedia è l’ultima novità in materia di musica gratis su internet: previa iscrizione gratuita al sito, infatti, permette di ascoltare liberamente in streaming migliaia di brani di band e artisti famosi e non, e di guardarne i relativi videoclip. Rispetto ad altri siti simili come per esempio Last.fm, Soundpedia fornisce inoltre un servizio utilissimo come la lettura del testo della canzone che si sta ascoltando (ottimo per fare il karaoke).
Ecco un portale Web 2.0 che può tornare molto utile: SoundSnap lo YouTube dei suoni. Si tratta semplicemente di una raccolta taggata di suoni e rumori… utilissimi per chi fa video montaggi :)!!
Da notare che i formati scaricabili sono ben tre: wav, mp3 e aif.
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