I tied for 3rd Runner-up out of 285 entries. This was such a great experience!
Archive for November, 2013
I’ve been a member of SoundCloud for over two years, but I’ve never really gotten into groups. The first group I joined was a showcase group for a college composition class. The group allowed us to show off a little and get a feel for what everybody else was doing, but lacked in a real-time element because it was meant for posting the final project after-the-fact. My final project is still in the group and it gets a little attention every month as each new class comes through, but nobody wants to comment because they don’t really know me. When SoundCloud teamed with the Smithsonian, the experience changed my outlook on participating in groups. Continue reading
I recently had a conversation with a friend in which I introduced him to the “out-of-speakers” trick as it was presented to me in Mixing Audio (Izhaki, 2012). I think, of all things I learned in my Music Production degree, this was the most surprising. Maybe this trick has been used on me before, but the manner in which the out-of-speakers trick is applied in the audio files accompanying the book jumps out at a person, or rather into a person. I’ve never heard such a stark example; I perceive the sound as inside my head or wrapping around.
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StullSounds 