Spectrograph software

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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.

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Number Theory책들 소개

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                  number theory,

And set theory…

Here is the recommended reading list from a seminar I gave on this a  few years back.

Lehrb?her
Forte, Allen. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven, Conn.: Yale  University Press, 1973.
Morris, Robert D. Class Notes for Atonal Music Theory. Hanover, New  Hamphsire: Forg Peak Music, 1991.
Morris, Robert D. Composition with Pitch-Classes. New Haven: Yale  University Press, 1987.
Rahn, John. Basic Atonal Theory. New York: Schirmer Books, 1980.

Weitere Literature
Alphonce, Bo Harry. “The Invariance Matrix.?Ph.D. dissertation, Yale  University, 1974.
Babbitt, Milton. “Set Strucuture as a Compositional Determinant.?JMT  5, no. 2 (1961): 72-94.
Babbitt, Milton. “Some Aspects of Twelve-Tone Composition.?nbsp; 12  (1955): 53-61.
Babbitt, Milton. “Twelve-Tone Invariants as Compositional  Determinants.?MQ 46, no. 2 (1960): 246-59.
Chrisman, Richard. “Identification and Correlation of Pitch-Sets.?nbsp; JMT 15, no. 1 and 2 (1971): 58-83.
Clough, John. “Diatonic Interval Sets and Transformational  Structures.?PNM 18, no. 1&2 (1979): 461-482.
Clough, John. “Pitch-Set Equivalence and Inclusion (A Comment on  Forte’s Theory of Set-Complexes).?JMT 9, no. 1 (1965): 163-71.
Forte, Allen. “Sets and Non-Sets in Schoenberg’s Atonal Music.?PNM  11, no. 2 (1972): 43-64.
Forte, Allen. “The structure of atonal music: Practical aspects of a  computer-oriented research project.?In Musicology and the Computer.  Musicology 1966-2000: A Practical Program. Three Symposia. New York:  American Musicological Society, 1970.
Hanson, Howard. Harmonic Materials of Modern Music: Resources of the  Tempered Scale. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1960.
Lewin, David. “Forte’s interval vector, my interval function, and  Regener’s common-note function.?JMT 21, no. 2 (1977): 194-237.
Lewin, David. Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations. New  Haven, Conn.: Yale University, 1987.
Lewin, David. “Klumpenhouwer networks and some isographies that  involve them.?Spectrum 12, no. 1 (1990): 83-120.
Lewin, David. “A response to a response: On pcset relatedness.?PNM  18 (1979): 498-502.
Martino, Donald. “The source-set and its aggregate formations.?JMT  5, no. 2 (1961): 224-73.
Perle, George. Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to  the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. 3rd ed. Los Angeles,  California: University of California Press, 1972.
Rogers, John. “Some properties of non-duplicating rotational arrays.?nbsp; PNM 7, no. 1 (1968): 80-102.
Starr, Daniel, and Robert D. Morris. “A general theory of  combinatoriality and the aggregate.?PNM 16, no. 1 (1977): 3-35.
Wintle, Christopher. “Milton Babbitt’s Semi-Simple Variations.?PNM  14, no. 2 and 15:1 (1976): 111-54.

Vacant Space

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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