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FIELD RECORDING / framework radio

« on: March 21, 2012, 09:47:50 am »

a great site/radio for field-recording, idea of collecting sounds and related projects.

loads of great recordings and sound ventures

curently working on a project with the aim of broadcasting it there. more info in some time

frameworkradio.net

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FIELD RECORDING / Chris Watson on Noise - interview

« on: March 18, 2012, 06:07:39 pm »

http://soundcloud.com/eprosser/chris-watson-on-noise#new-timed-comment-at-565451

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / 14bit controller

« on: December 15, 2011, 02:16:08 am »

can anyone advise a few midi controllers that support 14bit resolution (or other controlling devices/touch sensitive pads that send a high resolution signal)?

can be big manufacturers as well as custom made controllers.

basically what i'm looking for is a 14bit control PAD (such as the one in korg nanopad, unfortunatelly korg only offers 7bit) for controlling the metasurface of Audiomulch.

with 7bit controllers it is very inaccurate as they offer only 127steps. metasurface has 1000 steps in both axes. even a gentle move of a finger makes sudden and rapid changes to the parameters.

So i think a 14bit controller would help here a lot. could be a pad or a joystick.

one of my thoughts was faderfox lv3 but i have no idea if it offers 14bit. anyone has any experience with faderfox??

novation remote series also offers 14bit. but only for encoders, the pad is still 7bit.

i was also advised a Wacom tablet for this. they offer high resolution and are very affordable yet you need to set metasurface for full screen and have to hold a pen. if it metasurface can work on a separate screen it might be even a good solution. not convinced yet though.

thanks in advance for any hints.

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COMPUTER MUSIC / Audacity with ASIO support

« on: November 17, 2011, 07:22:53 am »

hi there,

has anyone any experience with implementing ASIO support module into Audacity?
Unfortunately I have no clue how to work with wxWidgets or any other kind of programing/compiling.

We'd like to use Audacity for simultaneous multi-track recording (2 or 3 stereo tracks) but without ASIO I'm afraid latency will be an issue. 

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / set up for recording two laptops

« on: July 26, 2011, 11:18:28 am »

hi there,

trying to figure out a solution for a home studio set up for recording two laptops simultaneously to one or two stereo tracks.

first idea is to purchase a 4 channel audio interface (such as 'T.C. Electronic Impact Twin' (budget is tight unfortunately) but might go with 'PreSonus FireStudio Project' as it offers more input channels in case we want to add a guitar/mic/third laptop/etc.) and record on a third computer. All are PCs/windows based. 

Do you have any other ideas maybe? or suggestion for a different audio interface around 400$ if we stick to the above scenario?

thanks in advance for your suggestions.

mac

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SELF PROMOTION / ex64 + vj pikselo at KontenerArt (Poznan) 05/june/11, 9pm

« on: June 02, 2011, 04:27:50 pm »

if anyone gets a chance to drop by, on 5th of May we will perform live and will be backed up by vj pikselo, as one of the events of UrbanVideoWorkshops in Pozna?, Poland hosted by KontenerArt. The fusion between audio and video will be improvised as we never met the guy before.

info about the whole evening here (sorry, Polish only):
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205366429505247

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FIELD RECORDING / invisible frequencies

« on: January 17, 2011, 10:20:41 am »

just found this yesterday.

a collaborative site for musicians who use environmental, field-recorded, and found sounds

http://invisiblefrequencies.com/

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COMPUTER MUSIC / software sound toys

« on: October 01, 2010, 12:08:24 pm »

lots of them out there. and they are lots of fun. will post more from time to time

here a new toy I found today:

http://seaquence.org/about/

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OTHER MUSIC / learning music project

« on: August 28, 2010, 10:12:31 am »

here video to introduce the project. great shots. nicely edited. somewhat touching story.

http://vimeo.com/7384555

and project page:
http://learningmusicmonthly.com/archives/

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ART / music for one apartment and six drummers

« on: July 29, 2010, 03:54:44 pm »

distant cousins of vegetable orchestra. clever.

http://vimeo.com/5537230

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FIELD RECORDING / World Listening Day - 18th July

« on: July 11, 2010, 09:29:15 am »

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FIELD RECORDING / vanishing quiet spaces / Gordon Hempton interview

« on: July 07, 2010, 08:47:00 am »

here link to a clip and an interview with Gordon Hempton about diminishing number of quiet places and beneficial influence of silence on our lives. highly interesting. some great points there.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/27/an-unquiet-nation.html

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OTHER MUSIC / Fred Anderson RIP

« on: June 29, 2010, 05:46:53 am »

Fred Anderson passed away last week. (and Bill Dixon earlier this month as well). just found out from Thrill Jockey web site.

That's too bad, really like the few albums of Anderson I have.
I was lucky to see him live in Frankfurt in 1999, where he played with Tortoise and Chicago Underground Duo. unforgettable and totally changed my music perspective back then. 

here with Hamid Drake:
http://vimeo.com/12859558

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FIELD RECORDING / sounds of marine mammals

« on: June 22, 2010, 03:03:27 am »

a short lecture about stunningly amazing sound abilities of marine mammals as well as human noise pollution that greatly affects the communication of those animals. really interesting. was not aware of most of the facts. recommended watch.

http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_tyack_the_intriguing_sound_of_marine_mammals.html

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SELF PROMOTION / ex64 live @ Audiosfera (Afera Radio) 16.06

« on: June 14, 2010, 09:20:46 am »

on the 16th June (this coming Wednesday) we will perform live at Audiosfera show (Radio Afera). apart from the performance, there will be an interview (Polish only unfortunately) and we will play a few tracks we enjoy listening to and selected from our collections.

among others we will present tracks from new albums by Taylor - Shoals and Giuseppe Ielasi - Tools. 
 
more info about the show and the band at Audiosfera's blog(English & Polish):
http://audiosfera.blox.pl/html

the show will start at midnight here in Poland, which is 6 pm New York time.

you can listen to it on the Internet here:
http://www.afera.com.pl/ - go to the site, locate and click following picture to activate/download the stream:


tune in.

bests,
mac