Comments on: The Vertical Color of Sound http://waltgordonjones.com/281/the-vertical-color-of-sound Art, conversation, and geekery. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:41:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Leader4hire http://waltgordonjones.com/281/the-vertical-color-of-sound/comment-page-1#comment-49 Leader4hire Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:10:35 +0000 http://waltgordonjones.com/?p=281#comment-49 Wow. Absolutely remarkable and a great example of technology merging with art. Nice link Walt! Wow. Absolutely remarkable and a great example of technology merging with art. Nice link Walt!

]]> By: waltjones http://waltgordonjones.com/281/the-vertical-color-of-sound/comment-page-1#comment-48 waltjones Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:17:21 +0000 http://waltgordonjones.com/?p=281#comment-48 I agree. And along that thread of sound, technology, and things you can do with pianos, here's an amazing vocoder demo where the sound is produced entirely by controlling the keys of a piano.<br><br><a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/06/the-speaking-piano-and-transforming-audio-to-midi/" rel="nofollow">http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/06/the-sp...</a> I agree. And along that thread of sound, technology, and things you can do with pianos, here's an amazing vocoder demo where the sound is produced entirely by controlling the keys of a piano.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/06/the-sp...

]]> By: Leader4hire http://waltgordonjones.com/281/the-vertical-color-of-sound/comment-page-1#comment-47 Leader4hire Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:36:09 +0000 http://waltgordonjones.com/?p=281#comment-47 In digital audio production, I use some pretty basic tools like Sony ACID and Adobe Audition. I'm no pro by any means. In fact, I might not even qualify as an amateur, but I enjoy the structure and the technology available to create electronic music.<br><br>I have a serious lack of ability to 'hear' tone and pitch when it comes to music creation. So, when I create (electronic) songs, I will often have arrangements that our out of key, but to me, they sound brilliant, and for those that don't bother with the "rules", they can see the art in what I'm doing. <br><br>The effort of making digital music has been a real education, one that I would have never been able to understand through guitar or piano lessons. For me, listening to a sound and analysing it in wave and spectral form opens a whole new perspective on what you are hearing and how simple yet complex a sound or single note real is. I think all this leads to why our current era of music is so vast, because artists and technologists are combining to really push what can be done with sound. <br><br>Imagine what George Martin would have done if he had Protools! In digital audio production, I use some pretty basic tools like Sony ACID and Adobe Audition. I'm no pro by any means. In fact, I might not even qualify as an amateur, but I enjoy the structure and the technology available to create electronic music.

I have a serious lack of ability to 'hear' tone and pitch when it comes to music creation. So, when I create (electronic) songs, I will often have arrangements that our out of key, but to me, they sound brilliant, and for those that don't bother with the “rules”, they can see the art in what I'm doing.

The effort of making digital music has been a real education, one that I would have never been able to understand through guitar or piano lessons. For me, listening to a sound and analysing it in wave and spectral form opens a whole new perspective on what you are hearing and how simple yet complex a sound or single note real is. I think all this leads to why our current era of music is so vast, because artists and technologists are combining to really push what can be done with sound.

Imagine what George Martin would have done if he had Protools!

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