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Sounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice, and listening behaviour caused by the Coronavirus outbreak.This multifaceted collection provides a detailed picture of a wide array of phenomena related to sound and music, including soundscapes, music production, music performance, and mediatisation processes in the context of COVID-19. It represents a first step to understanding how the pandemic and its by-products affected sound domains in terms of experiences and practices, representations, collective imaginaries, and socio-political manipulations.This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners working in the realms of music production and performance, musicology and ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies.

This book provides the first extensive analysis of what sound and audio brings to participatory interdisciplinary arts-led research and practice, representing a vital resource for community arts, performance practice, and research in the digital age.

Sonic Engagement examines the relationship between community engaged participatory arts and the cultural turn towards audio, sound, and listening that has been referred to as the 'sonic turn'.This edited collection investigates the use of sound and audio production in community engaged participatory arts practice and research. The popularity of podcast and audio drama, combined with the accessibility and portability of affordable field recording and home studio equipment, makes audio a compelling mode of participatory creative practice. This book maps existing projects occurring globally through a series of case study chapters that exemplify community engaged creative audio practice. The studies focus on audio and sound-based arts practices that are undertaken by artists and arts-led researchers in collaboration with (and from within) communities and groups. These practices include-applied audio drama, community engaged podcasting, sound and verbatim theatre, participatory sound art, community-led acoustic ecology, sound and media walks, digital storytelling, oral history and reminiscence, and radio drama in health and community development. The contributors interrogate the practical, political, and aesthetic potentialities of using sound and audio in community engaged arts practice, as well as its tensions and possibilities as an arts-led participatory research methodology.This book provides the first extensive analysis of what sound and audio brings to participatory, interdisciplinary, arts-led approaches, representing a vital resource for community arts, performance practice, and research in the digital age.

This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts.

Hearing, health and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. The edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations.

This edited book presents the state of the art in voice biometrics research and technologies including implementation and deployment challenges in terms of interoperability, scalability and performance, and security.

Create and compose production-quality music with the power of FL Studio 20 along with MuseScore and WwiseKey Features:Develop widely applicable music composition techniques and create full orchestral scoresLeverage the power of FL Studio to create your own production-level soundtracksUse cutting-edge tools to fuel your creative ideas and launch your composer careerBook Description:FL Studio is a cutting-edge software music production environment and a powerful and easy-to-use tool for composing music. In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover how to use FL Studio's tools and techniques to design exciting soundtracks for your films, TV shows, video games, and much more.You'll start by understanding the business of composing, learning how to communicate, score, market your services, land gigs, and deliver music projects for clients like a professional. Next, you'll set up your studio environment, navigate key tools, such as the channel rack, piano roll, playlist, mixer, and browser, and export songs. The book then advances to show you how to compose orchestral music using MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) programming, with a dedicated section to string instruments. You'll create sheet music using MuseScore for live musicians to play your compositions. Later, you'll learn about the art of Foley for recording realistic sound effects, create adaptive music that changes throughout video games, and design music to trigger specific emotions, for example, scary music to terrify your listener. Finally, you'll work on a sample project that will help you prepare for your composing career.By the end of this book, you'll be able to create professional soundtrack scores for your films and video games.What You Will Learn:Compose production-ready music for films and video gamesPlan and deliver a soundtrack music score for clients like a professionalApply practical music theory using themes, leitmotifs, scales, and modesCompose orchestral music with MIDI programmingDesign music for specific emotionsCreate sheet music with MuseScore, score music for films with Fruity Video Player, and make diegetic musicDesign interactive music by leveraging horizontal resequencing and vertical remixingWho this book is for:This book is for musicians and programmers who want to take their music composing skills to a professional level. Film directors and game designers who want to get involved in scoring music for their own productions will also find this book useful. All you need is a computer and FL Studio to get started.

Ubiquitous music is an interdisciplinary area of research that lies at the intersection of music and computer science. Initially evolving from the related concept of ubiquitous computing, today ubiquitous music offers a paradigm for understanding how the everyday presence of computers has led to highly diverse music practices. As we move from desktop computers to mobile and internet-based multi-platform systems, new ways to participate in creative musical activities have radically changed the cultural and social landscape of music composition and performance. This volume explores how these new systems interact and how they may transform our musical experiences.Emerging out of the work of the Ubiquitous Music Group, an international research network established in 2007, this volume provides a snapshot of the ecologically grounded perspectives on ubiquitous music that share the concept of ecosystem as a central theme. Covering theory, software and hardware design, and applications in educational and artistic settings, each chapter features in-depth descriptions of exploratory and cutting-edge creative practices that expand our understanding of music making by means of digital and analogue technologies.

Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem highlights the opportunities and rewards associated with the application of AI in the creative arts.Featuring an array of voices, including interviews with Jacques Attali, Holly Herndon and Scott Cohen, this book offers interdisciplinary approaches to pressing ethical and technical questions associated with AI.Considering the perspectives of developers, students and artists, as well as the wider themes of law, ethics and philosophy, Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem is an essential introduction for anyone interested in the impact of AI on music, including those studying and working in the creative arts.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Tontechnik, Note: 100, SAE Institute Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit liegt das Augenmerk auf dem Dithering-Verfahren im Mastering-Prozess. Während das Thema ¿Mastering für Audio-CDs¿ bereits oft in der Literatur beschrieben wurde, sollen hier die nötigen Voraussetzungen des Audiomaterials für ein optimales Resultat nach der Konvertierung zum MP3-Format sowie die Folgen durch den Einsatz oder dem Nicht-Einsatz von Dithering-Tools analysiert und aufgezeigt werden.Das Ziel der Arbeit ist es, bei der Auswahl des richtigen Ditherwerkzeuges, je nach gegebenen Voraussetzungen, zu helfen. Mit dem gewonnenen Wissen sollen Anwender in Zukunft Dither im Mastering-Prozess, mit speziellem Augenmerk auf die verlustbehaftete MP3-Datei, richtig einsetzen und ihre Ergebnisse qualitativ verbessern können.Es werden zunächst die Grundlagen erläutert, damit man versteht warum Dithering überhaupt benötigt wird und wie Dithering funktioniert. Hier werden auch diverse Dithering-Methoden vorgestellt und erläutert, sowie Probleme aufgezeigt die bei falscher Anwendung von Dithering entstehen können. Weiter werden Voraussetzungen beschrieben, die für einen einwandfreien Einsatz von Dithering erfüllt sein müssen.Nach den Grundlagen soll zunächst der Quantisierungsfehler anhand von Versuchen mit Sinustönen analysiert werden. Das hilft zu verstehen, wie sich der Fehler in Abhängigkeit von Aussteuerung, Wortbreite und Samplerate bemerkbar macht. Danach werden Ditherverfahren anhand eines weiteren Versuches verglichen und analysiert. Es soll das Verhalten je nach Lautstärke, Bittiefe und Abtastrate des Ausgangsmaterials, je nach angewandtem Dither und je nach gewünschtem Endformat (CD oder MP3) aufzeigen und Unterschiede hörbar machen. Anschließend wird der letzte Versuch mit einem kurzen Musikstück durchgeführt, um einen realen Praxisbezug zu haben. In diesem Versuch werden auch unterschiedliches Ausgangsmaterial, diverse Dithervarianten und unterschiedliche Endformate verglichen.Durch diese Versuche soll aufgezeigt werden, dass klangliche Unterschiede bei verschiedenen Dithering-Methoden hörbar sind und Dither auch falsch angewendet werden kann. Somit erweist sich die Auswahl des Dithering-Tools als eine wichtige Entscheidung für das entstehende Endprodukt.