Ira Greenberg is director of the Center of Creative Computation and is a professor at SMU. He's had a career as a painter, animator, designer, programmer, arts director, professor and author. In addition to having lectured at universities across the world, he's authored three books on creative coding, including the first major reference for Processing. His current research … [Read more...]
Interview – Peter Brinkmann & libpd
Pure Data (Pd) is one of the most powerful and commonly used open source softwares for music and sound creation. Spearheaded by Miller Puckette, it is completely free. About three years ago libpd was released – a library of Pd Vanilla (the basic version of Pd) that makes it possible to run Pd pretty much anywhere. Since then there have been an explosion of applications for PC, … [Read more...]
Perspectives on Sound Design
Guest contribution by Andy Farnell This article is the second of two part series on two sound symposia that recently happened in the UK. Part one is here. Perspectives on Sound Design Symposium 5 July 2013 The second of our featured symposiums took place on Friday 5 July 2013 at York University Department of Theatre, Film, and Television. Like the South Bank setting for the … [Read more...]
The Theatre Sound Colloquium (and thoughts on sound design)
Guest contribution by Andy Farnell Images by Jemima Yong This article is the first of two part series on two sound symposia that recently happened in the UK. The Theatre Sound Colloquium – June 28 2013 First off, the last days of June. The sun finally came out in the UK in time for a splendid Glastonbury Festival, and I was in London for the Theatre Sound Colloquium held … [Read more...]
Site Maintenance
DesigningSound.org has about 2000 blog posts. It is a bit mind boggling to think that there are 2000 different articles about sound on a single website. A large site such as this needs maintenance. We've scheduled time on Saturday (3 August) from 2pm-6pm GMT to do some tinkering on the backend. The site won't be accessible during that time, so in the words of Douglas Adams, … [Read more...]
An interview with Trevor Cox
Guest contribution by Neil Cullen Trevor Cox is a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford. He has presented a range of science documentaries for the BBC, designed the acoustics of various rooms worldwide, is the co-author of a book on absorbers and diffusers and has previously been the president of the Institute of Acoustics. Trevor, you've been … [Read more...]
Impulse Response And Acoustic Problems
Guest contribution by Guido Helbling Don't worry, I won't bore you with a treatise on acoustics. But multi-channel impulse responses can often create problems between individual channels (e.g. over-emphasised frequencies and phase cancellation), so it is worthwhile to analyze one or two such situations. Analysing Sweeps A quick recap on impulse responses: an impulse response … [Read more...]