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In the field, on the street

By Martin Parker Posted on March 6, 2019 Posted in Tutorials

1 In the field, on the street This morning’s session calls on us to get out and begin to capture the sounds of the world. Rather than a free-form recording session however, we need a structure and focus to make …

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Making mp3 with meta data embedded

By Martin Parker Posted on February 28, 2019 Posted in Tutorials

The quickest way to do this for just one file, or a short album of files is to use iTunes, it’s cross-platform and behaves fairly consistently. First, create your .wav file, it should be no higher in SR than 48k …

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Tutorial – graphing sound

By Martin Parker Posted on February 13, 2019 Posted in Tutorials

1 Introduction There are numerous tools out there to help you analyse, view and extract audio information from films. Dropping your .mkv file into REAPER for example will extract the audio, generate a waveform and give you full access to …

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Tutorial 1 – converting gestures into sounds

By Martin Parker Posted on February 6, 2019 Posted in Tutorials

Turning a visual gesture into a sound – bring sound-making devices, recording units, headphones, laptops, interfaces and your emerging analyses along for this session. Sign up at this doodle: doodle.com/poll/xetp76erhhfrwdww There is a venerable tradition of generating graphical material from …

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Lecture 05 ambisonics and Reaper, a quickish tutorial

By Martin Parker Posted on February 27, 2017 Posted in lecture notes, Tutorials

What follows are instructions on how to make use of Reaper and the very powerful Ambisonics tool Kit to help you to spatialize your sound. It does not advise on what might sound good in a spatial context, but gives …

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SFM links

  • BBC Engineering Document no 94 Discussion of the development quadrophony in Radio at the BBC in 1973
  • Randy Thom's sound blog Randy Thom – thoughts on film sound
  • Soundworks vimeo channel Very useful page of sound docs with info about mainstream film sound design.
  • Very useful Wiki/glossary from UoTexas Huge list of terms used in film production, explained in a searchable wiki.

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