HELP SHEETS

ocenaudio

Audacity

Garageband

REAPER

SPEAR

How Digital Audio Works

How MIDI Works

Multi-Channel Audio Software

Reaper (and recommended extension)

   ReaSurround (plug-in built into REAPER)

   SpatGRIS (plug-in)

   The Ambisonic Toolkit (ATK) (plug-in)

IEM Plug-in Suite (plug-in)

   ambiX (plug-in)

Max

    mc.mixdown (multi-channel panner built into Max)

    ICST Ambisonics (Max externals)

    Spat5 (Max externals)

Sound Particles (free for academic use)


Spatial Ear Trainer (SET) (my own software)

The Murmurator (flocking simulation-driven software instrument) (my own software)

Obriarious (Full Ambisonics Reaper + Spat5 composition system) (my own software)

multi-channel audio HARDWARE

Zoom H2n (4-channel 360° mic)

Tetrahedral Mic (4-channel spherical mic)

Zylia Mic (19-channel mic)

Eigenmike (32-channel mic) (sadly, the department doesn’t have one of these… 🙁…it is $20K, though… )

LIStening

Adams: Dream in White on White

Natasha Barrett: Viva la Selva

Barrett: Trade Winds

Barrett: Racing Through, Racing Unseen

Barrett: Kernel Expansion

Manuella Blackburn: Switched On

Blackburn: Spectral Spaces

Olivia Block: Heave To

Matthew Burtner: S-Morphe-S

Simon Emmerson: Frictions 

Luc Ferrari: Presque Rien avec filles

John Gibson: Slumber

Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco

Paul Lansky: Night Traffic

Norman: People Underground

Norman: Squeaky Reel

Pauline Oliveros: Cistern

Maggi Payne: Resonant Places

Payne: Distant Thunder

Diana Salazar: Cipher

Salazar: Spindlesong

Denis Smalley: Wind Chimes

Smalley: Valley Flow

Swendsen: Song for Circular Space

Valerio Tricoli: Miseri Lanes

Hildegard Westerkamp: Beneath the Forest Floor

Westerkamp: Kits Beach Soundwalk

Forsythe/Willems: One Flat Thing Reproduced

Jana Winderen: Aquaculture

Trevor Wishart: Red Bird 

Recent works by Helena Gough, Mitchell Herrmann, Matt Omahan, Asha Tamarisa, Tara Rodgers, David Bird 

READING

John Luther Adams: “In Search of an Ecology of Music”

Kevin Austin: Diffusion score for Dhomont's Signé Dionysos

Natasha Barrett: “Spatio-musical composition strategies”

Manuella Blackburn: “The Visual Sound-Shapes of Spectromorphology: an illustrative guide to composition”

Seth Kim-Cohen: In the Blink of an Ear

Simon Emmerson: "Aural landscape: musical space" (Organised Sound v.3.2; 1999)

Ambrose Field: “Simulation and reality: the new sonic objects” (in Emmerson, Simon, ed. 2000. Music, Electronic Media, and Culture. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing.)

Frank Ekeberg Henriksen: Space in Electroacoustic Music: Composition, Performance and Perception of Musical Space (PhD Dissertation, City University London; 2002) pp. 97-110

Brian Kane: Sound Unseen

Katherine Norman: “Real-World Music as Composed Listening” (Cont. Music Review v.15.1; 1996)

Norman: “With no direction home”

Denis Smalley: “Spectro-morphology and Structuring Processes” (in Emmerson, Simon, ed. 1986. The Language of Electroacoustic Music. London: Macmillan Press.)

Denis Smalley: “Space-form and the acousmatic image” (Organised Sound v.12.1; 2007)

Laetitia Sonami: “Seizing a Sound and Smelling its Belly to Fit it in a Folder”

Jonathan Sterne: The Audible Past

Wishart: "In there a natural morphology of sounds?"

Scott Wyatt: “Investigative Studies on Sound Diffusion/Projection” (eContact v.2.4; 1999)

Luke Windsor: “Nature and Culture, Noise and Music” (in Current Directions in Ecomusicology; 2016)

Sabine Feisst: “Negotiating Nature and Music Through Technology” (in Current Dir. in Ecomusicology; 2016) Seth Kim-Cohen: “Dams, Weirs, and Damn Weird Sounds” (in The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art; 2017) Pierre Schaeffer: “Acousmatics” (1966; in Audio Culture; 2017)

Pauline Oliveros: “Auralizing the Sonosphere (in Audio Culture; 2017)

Eliane Radigue: “The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal” (2009; in Audio Culture; 2017)