BradFuller

Check out the great new AES tutorial on Large Room Acoustics By Diemer de Vries at the Audio Engineering Society website. Note, you must be an AES member – if you’re not JOIN, it’s a great group!

For more tutorial see the AES Tutorials page

I have to hand it to Peter, he has again pulled out a couple of fun videos on auto-tuning. Please visit his website to hear more and read the discussion. I embed one of the videos here, but be sure and visit his site: Create Digital Music

Wouldn’t it be fun if all news was like this. Less war?

Peter Kirn asks on his blog is Beyonce tone deaf? Take the link for the discussion, but I embedded the video below for your convenience. Don’t listen too far, it’s unsettling! In a nutshell, the answer is of course not – her voice was doctored. But it brings up an interesting question.

A friend asks:
“I never understood the attraction. It’s the “dumbing down of America” perspective.”

A friend answers with this video. A great look at today’s popular music industry. (length: 1hr:17min)

The Economist reports how the US State Department is using Jazz as a tool for diplomacy. (after the commercial)

(The Economist needs a bit better production techniques for voice mixing….)

I was shocked to find out the Professor Allen Strange passed away in February of this year. I studied with Allen for a couple of years at SJSU and privately at his home when he lived here in Los Gatos, CA. He was a wonderful composer who explored the limits of electronic music and taught me to do the same. I’m sorry I was not able to see him at his recent concert here in San Jose. I talked to him on the phone about it, but was unable to make the concert.

He was much too young to pass and he will be clearly missed by all of us.

List of Works (pdf)
MatrixSynth
Wikipedia
Obituary