Tag: surround sound
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Stereo renders/masters from ambisonics
Mixing and composing in ambisonics is great. Translation from one speaker system to another is fairly painless and you can’t argue with the price of the basic tools (free) and the potential for long-term archiving and restoration of mixes. One of the issues we face though is how to generate stereo masters from, say, a…
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in competence: ZKM recording
From the 18th-22nd December 2022 Trio Abstrakt and I rehearsed and recorded in competence in the Kubus ofĀ ZKM Karlsruhe. This c. 70-minute through-composed work was commissioned by Trio AbstraktĀ and premiered by them, just prior to the recording, at the Alte Feuerwache in Cologne, on December 3rd. Programme notes in English and German are available…
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ma bell premiere (and recording with Ambeo mic)
On January 10th 2022 Michael Pattmann premiered ma bell, a reworking of ma bel. For one beautiful bell and four percussion groups consisting of six objects each of wood, metal, drum, and plate plus computer (the latter producing 3rd-order ambisonics surround sound) this is essentially a piece for percussion and sampler, in the form of…
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soundscapes around the world
Over the spring and summer of 2020 my students and I worked on a four-channel soundscapes installation that created a continuously remixed and varying aural collage of sound recorded from around the globe: Ecuador, Japan, Cuba, Antarctis, Europe, etc. The software was written by Clarissa Ray Porst in PD using some of my Markov Chain…