Note on spectrograph generating software: I¹m not sure this is news to anybody but here¹s my thoughts.

Amadeus does quite a good job of allowing flexibility in configuring its spectrograph (or sonogram as it¹s called) for specific sounds and it¹s quite affordable.
Some popular free software:
Praat  a free software – is quite amazing for speech analysis purposes, both for the ease of its parameter control and for its automatic analysis functions (formants, pitch, intensity, pulses); however, it¹s not good for music for several reasons (1) it mixes stereo tracks into mono, (2) it does not offer logarithmic display, (3) it¹s stuck on the Gauss window which isn¹t flat (in fact it shows brown noise with equal intensity throughout the spectrum)
Audacity  allows some level of control over window FFT size, color, and frequency range but uses linear display only, and worse of all, does not show the frequency you are pointing at with the cursor; it’s not really usable.
However, a free software that is quite impressive and available for both PC and MAC is Sonic Visualiser  available at http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/index.html. It allows control over range, logarithmic/linear view, window type (7 options) and size, scale, color, threshold, gain and more.

Eldad

Vacant Space
A new sound and image installation by Janek Schaefer

Does a tree falling in a forest make a sound if no one is there to hear it?

Have you ever wondered what happens when you are not there?

Sound artist and Guinness Book of Records record-holder Janek Schaefer

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick notice that I’m performing this Saturday
as part of the “7 Things” curation at Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival.  I’m in the Festival Hub
at the LBT  at 10pm
(http://www.hcmf.andymayer.net/modules/amevent/?fct=vieweventinfo&id=5)
following a whole host of great artists that day (John
Butcher and Keith Rowe amongst others.) My set will
involve live electronics with a fair bit of field
recordings (more than my recent works anyway.) It’d be
great to see some list folks in person (and I think
it’s free!)

Also, for those of you holding out till the last
second for the SoundAsArt conference in Aberdeen, it’s
coming next weekend (Nov 24, 25, and 26).  We had to
move rooms due to the demand (we’re expecting over 100
now) but we still have about 30 seats left.  It’s free
of course but you do need to register to secure a
space (which you can do here:
http://soundasart.urbannovember.org/)

In case you’ve missed the hype, the conference will
feature talks, performances, soundwalks, and
installations by artists, performers, and writers from
all over the world (India, Germany, France, Italy, the
States, and the UK just to name a few) including
Ginacarlo Toniutti, Keith Rowe, Christina Kubisch,
Jonty Harrison, Rajesh Mehta, Rohan de Saram, Pete
Stollery, Tony Whitehead, James Wyness, myself and
many others.

Anyway, it’d be great to meet a few more list members
at the conference.  If you’re coming let me know and I
may be able to save you some money concerning
accommodation.  Otherwise key events will be webcast
live on 360TV
(http://www.peacockvisualarts.com/digital-home/360TV)
and I’ll be posting the times and events next week
sometime as well as posting it on the urbanNovember
website..

Thanks if you’ve made it this far (and apologies for
the cross postings…)

Bill

ps…The SoundAsArt event is free thanks to the
generous support by Aberdeen City Council, University
of Aberdeen, College of Art and Social Sciences,
School of Education, and sound, the North East
Scotland’s Contemporary Music Festival.

www.billthompson.org