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Comment by Jeff Harrington on September 30, 2009 at 7:35am

That's a little bit like a discussion I had on an electronic music board about Beethoven. I was explaining to them that Beethoven sounds loud because of how he 'compressed' his orchestration. Denser chords here, octaves there the layout of the chords, the layout of the registers. His adaptive compression tool was his orchestrations. I told them that Beethoven sounds loud, immense, whatever even with chamber orchestras playing and that is in fact an interesting trick.

Comment by Greg Hooper on September 30, 2009 at 6:53am

A nice idea Adam - subtly different to what we can already do with volume and dynamics in the orchestration. A different way of thinking about an aspect of composition that I have not come across before

Comment by adam kondor on September 30, 2009 at 6:41am

adaptive compression - can it exist for audio files? A perceptible change of compression ratio throughout the piece as an expressive tool...

...[it] would be very cool to create a jpeg variant which would allow to have different pixel block sizes and different compression at the same time. ...the original jpeg mechanism prefers square blocks, and it also does a uniform compression. I thought it would be cool to allow the code to do an adaptive compression - basically creating huge blocks in areas with little colour variation and tiny blocks elsewhere.

Comment by adam kondor on September 24, 2009 at 4:09am

see the laser/smoke mic:

Comment by adam kondor on September 21, 2009 at 5:22am

I'l try them! (I was looking for audio, thanks!)

Comment by Jay C. Batzner on September 20, 2009 at 7:12pm

Have you tried Fscape? It is a free soundhack-style app for the Mac (maybe Windows) that might do something you need.

or Spear? Or are you looking for picture morphing and I'm thinkin' audio?

Comment by adam kondor on September 20, 2009 at 2:49am

Don't you know by chance a (freely distributed) program for morphing?

Comment by adam kondor on September 11, 2009 at 5:07am

Tx Greg, I'll learn a lot from your links!

(btw, I recorded my ImprovFr tune today with this:

Comment by Greg Hooper on September 11, 2009 at 4:02am

but Adam, you have to start with a quiet mic - they are listed at the 'basic info' link last post

Comment by Greg Hooper on September 10, 2009 at 7:17pm

so much for leaving ;)
I couldn't resist your question re mic preamps. The best place to look for
info on recording very quiet sounds is amongst bioacoustic and nature sound recordists. The yahoo group naturerecordists is excellent
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/

Here also is a site that covers most of their basic info
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/index.html

mostly people recommend Rolls or Sound devices pres

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