Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages. You can use Audacity to:
Record live audio.
Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Thierry De Mey, born in 1956, is a composer and filmmaker. An instinctive feel for movement guides his entire work, allowing him to tackle and integrate a variety of disciplines. The premise behind his musical and filmic writing is the desire for rhythm to be experienced in the body or bodies, revealing the musical meaning for the author, performer and audience. He has developed a system of musical writing for movement used in pieces where the visual and choreographic aspects are just as important as the gesture producing the sound. A large part of his music production is intended for dance and cinema. He has often been more than a composer for the choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and his sister Michèle Anne De Mey.
Instruções de como fazer o microfone de contacto e o hidromicrofone
A sonorização é um trabalho de reconstrução de sons que não puderam ser devidamente captados durante a produção de um filme. Essa reconstrução utiliza todo tipo de materiais, espaços e acções de forma a obter os sons, ruídos e texturas desejados, exigindo bastante criatividade.
PEDRO JUNQUEIRA MAIA 'XCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY [2010] (hommage to John Cage and Jimmi Hendrix) [for percussion, electric guitar and electronics interpretação / performance NUNO AROSO electrónica / electronics Pedro Junqueira Maia
Justin Boyd, Department Chair of Sculpture and Integrated Media at Southwest School of Art, shares his connection with sound and how he uses it to create original works of art. Inspired by his sensitivity to sound at a very young age, Boyd has been recording and working with sound and music since the mid 90s. Boyd actively captures field recordings for integration of sound with found objects. This documentary was produced in association with Southwest School of Art. Learn more about their BFA program at swschool.org.
Architectural Sound installation with Ali Momeni for DYNASTY (June 10-September 5, 2010) commissioned by Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris with support from the Council for Artistic Creation and the City of Paris.
A Tentative Call to the Other consists of a forest of suspended loud-speakers as well as a large speaker nearly 2m in diameter. The installation is situated at the entrance of the Dufy Hall at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris.
Within this immersive sonic environment, the visitor discovers the barrage of electromagnetic activity that surrounds us. Invisible but omnipresent, these signals are picked up with a special antenna placed on the roof of the museum. In parallel with the sonified electrical activity, visitors also hear sounds originating in outer space, picked up by ESA’s CoRoT Satellite, that are made audible in real-time thanks to a collaboration with Eric Michel from the Paris Observatory.
The diffusion of these sounds is punctuated by interviews with astrologers, hymns, and incantations of ritualistic prayers in Southeast Asian languages. This installation thus offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the painted mural by Raoul Dufy, La Fée Electricité (1937), itself a commentary on the impact of the urban electric grid human society.
http://abduzeedo.com/sound-design-contact-mic-recording-and-water-foley Concept: "Contact Mic Recording is a form of microphone specifically designed to pick up audio vibrations in solid objects. Normal studio mics are all built around the principle of detecting vibrations in the air but Contact mics are different in that they are designed to pickup surface vibrations."
Os Coldcut são uma banda electrónica formada por Matt Black (programador informático) e Jonathan More( ex professor de artes) que se fazem servir para além da utilização de vídeos e da multimédia, de cut ups retirados de gravações de falas, sons do quotidiano e samples de hip hop e jazz. Esta banda participou activamente durante toda a sua longa carreira com um grande número de artistas que vão muito para além da área da música.
Ice Bellows (remix) began as a study of silence. The initial inquiry set out to capture the sound of ice melting to then amplify such subtlety, but the sound of ice as it melts became fascinating. In the process of amplification, the aural experiment grew quickly away from silence and shifted into a discovery of sound as the ice revealed a musical quality. The sounds came to life in the way Bjork performed a sort of factory musical in the feature Dancer in the Dark - each machine working together to create a composition. After analyzing and organizing the recorded sounds, a visual interface was erected. Viewers were then invited to manipulate these sounds through a simulated pipe organ. Thus, the viewer becomes the artist. Concurrently, a musical collaboration of the same sounds was in process with local jazz musician,Dan Schwindt. He arranged the captured sounds of ice melting to make a unique composition that serves as a foundational soundscape throughout installation and exhibit." Fonte:http://www.nikkipike.com
Sound Waves: "The Nature of Sound" 1948
"Boy uses his radio equipment to demonstrate how sound is produced and transmitted."
Sound
is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted
through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the
range of hearing.
Sound also travels through plasma...
Propagation of sound
Sound
is a sequence of waves of pressure that propagates through compressible
media such as air or water. (Sound can propagate through solids as
well, but there are additional modes of propagation). Sound that is
perceptible by humans has frequencies from about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. In
air at standard temperature and pressure, the corresponding wavelengths
of sound waves range from 17 m to 17 mm. During propagation, waves can
be reflected, refracted, or attenuated by the medium.
The behavior of sound propagation is generally affected by three things:
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A relationship between density and pressure. This relationship,
affected by temperature, determines the speed of sound within the
medium.
- The propagation is also affected by the motion of the
medium itself. For example, sound moving through wind. Independent of
the motion of sound through the medium, if the medium is moving, the
sound is further transported.
- The viscosity of the medium also
affects the motion of sound waves. It determines the rate at which sound
is attenuated. For many media, such as air or water, attenuation due to
viscosity is negligible.
When sound is moving through a medium
that does not have constant physical properties, it may be refracted
(either dispersed or focused).
" The Guide To Sound Effects
Tips and ideas for making your own sound effects
Airplane engine, flying (WW2 style)
Get some of the larger fan types into your studio and record different speeds and power up/downs, close miked. You’ll have to add some distortion and remove some of the lower end depending on the type of fan used. - Jonathan vd Wijngaarden
Alien egg sacks
A good one for alien egg sacks contracting and expanding is breathing softly into a styrofoam cup while pressing it in and out. - Pedro Seminario
Alien pod embryo expulsions etc.
Certain kinds of canned dog food make useful sounds as the food comes out of the can. The chunky stuff isn’t so good, but the tightly packed all-one-mass kind makes gushy sucking sounds when the air on the outside of the can is sucked into the can to replace the exiting glob of dog food. This sound can be used as an element in certain kinds of monster vocalizations, alien pod embryo expulsions, etc. - Ashley Walker
Arrow flyby
Use a thin bamboo stick, such as the type used to hold up plants in a garden. Whip it past the microphone. - Adam Johnson
Bats flying
I used an umbrella opening and closing rapidly for the sound of bats flying one time… turned out great. I think I had to filter out some of the low frequency material, though. -Tim Clarke
Blood and guts being torn out
I know how to make a nice sound of blood and guts being torn out. Just make a milk pulp and put it into your mouth, and they try to say “Ghhhh”. Mix it with the end section of any splash water sample or add a sample where you’re moving out your hand from the barrel of water :) - Adam
Blood rushing in veins
For the blood sound I use the sound of a sponge that I squeeze into water (with a hydrophone) to make the air come out, then I pitch down a bit. I would also add white noise under it to give it a bit of high. - Rodrigue Amyot
Try putting a microphone into your mouth. You will get a nice low end sounding like blood. You will have to try to avoid making clicking sounds with your mouth. - Morten Green
Blow to the head
Now I’ve heard, (and I’m not saying it’s true but…) if you get a water melon, stick cream crackers to it (Jacob’s or Sainsbury’s own) and then whack it with a hammer/axe it sounds very much like you would expect a similar type blow to the head. You can then bury the water melon under the patio and no-one need ever know. - Nick Arundel "
