Manuella Blackburn

The Visual Sound-Shapes of Spectromorphology: an illustrative guide to composition

10 Sound examples and 3 Movie examples

Sound example 1: Start (metronome ping) – 0′07″

Sound example 2: Middle (glass rim) – 0′05″

Sound example 3: End (Clothes line twang) – 0′06″

Sound example 4: Ascend – 0′02″

Sound example 5: Agglomeration – extract from Dance Machine (2009) – 0′04″

Sound example 6: Micro-composite attack – extract from Cajón! (2008) – 0′10″

Sound example 7: Dissipation – 0′16″

Sound example 8: Pericentral extract from The Goldfish miniature, Origami (2007) – 0′09″

Sound example 9: Multidirectional texture extract from The Crane, Origami (2007) – 0′32″

Sound example 10: Layered streams – extract from Spectral Spaces (2008) – 0′52″

Movie example 1: Sound sculpting – extract from Kitchen Alchemy (2007) – 0′12″

Movie example 2: Sound unit – extract from Cajón! (2008) – 0′33″

Movie example 3: Morphological stringing – extract from Kitchen Alchemy (2007) – 0′30″

Erik Nyström

Textons and the Propagation of Space in Acousmatic Music

15 Sound examples

Sound example 1: Wind Chimes by Denis Smalley (excerpt: 1′57″–2′55″) – 0′57″

Sound example 2: 24 Variations by Horacio Vaggione (excerpt: 0′51″–1′15″) – 0′23″

Sound example 3: 24 Variations by Horacio Vaggione (excerpt: 1′44″–2′08″) – 0′24″

Sound example 4: Wind Chimes by Denis Smalley (excerpt: 1′07″–1′24″) – 0′17″

Sound example 5: Elemental Chemistry by Erik Nyström (excerpt: 4′27″–5′16″) – 0′49″

Sound example 6: Elemental Chemistry by Erik Nyström (excerpt: 10′05″–10′41″) – 0′36″

Sound example 7: Gwerz by Elsa Justel (excerpt: 0′00″–0′56″) – 0′56″

Sound example 8: Pentes by Denis Smalley (excerpt: 2′00″–2′57″) – 0′57″

Sound example 9: Far-from-equilibrium by Erik Nyström (excerpt: 0′00″–0′46″) – 0′46″

Sound example 10: Pentes by Denis Smalley by (excerpt: 6′20–8′22″) – 2′02″

Sound example 11: Far-from-equilibrium by Erik Nyström (excerpt: 8′20″–0′04″) – 1′44″

Sound example 12: Danses Acousmatiques: Swarm by Andrew Lewis (excerpt: 0′35″–1′20″) – 0′45″

Sound example 13: 24 Variations by Horacio Vaggione (excerpt: 8′17″–8′35″) – 0′18″

Sound example 14: Far-from-equilibrium by Erik Nyström (excerpt: 1′09″–1′37″) – 0′27″

Sound example 15: Valley Flow by Denis Smalley (excerpt: 0′44″–1′39″) – 0′55″

Examples 1, 4, 8, 10 and 15 are reproduced with permission from Denis Smalley and Empreintes Digitales. Examples 2, 3, and 13 are reproduced with permission from Horacio Vaggione and Mnémosyne Musique Media. Examples 5 and 6 are reproduced with permission from Musique & Recherches. Example 7 is reproduced with permission from Elsa Justel and Empreintes Digitales. Example 12 reproduced with permission from Andrew Lewis and Empreintes Digitales.

Aki Pasoulas

Temporal Associations, Semantic Content and Source Bonding

6 Sound examples

Sound example 1: Original cricket recording – 0′13″

Sound example 2: Cricket with environment removed – 0′08″

Sound example 3: Stereo reduction of Vessel@Anchor (unpublished work by Aki Pasoulas), excerpt – 4′58″ (duration of work 11′38″)

Sound example 4: Broadband noise – 0′01″

Sound example 5: Broadband noise and impact – 0′01″

Sound example 6: Broadband noise, impact and voice – 0′01″