By Lawrence

I will be presenting my piece, Angel ing, at the 13th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at the American Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College n March.  I have been asked to write a paper on the the creation of the piece as a paper presentatio topic.  I have decided to make this paper available here so folks can see how he piece was made.

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In October, I completed the piece, Spectral Voices in the Light, which pays homage to radio sound and EVPs (Electronic Voice henomena). This is when spirits or ghosts speak through electronic devices using a portion of the lecto-magnetic spectrum to emit sound.  This piece is somewhat tongue-in-cheec, but certainly does not make fun of EVPs. I composed the music by recrding sounds thatI was able t make with my shotwave radio.  I then pitch-shifted this material with Csound.  The resulting tracks wee mixed in Dolby 5.1 in Cakewalk Sonar.

The video was created by using Processing to generate semi-random distributions of white noise graphics that I made in Photoshop.  I also used Procesing to distribute some words an faces that I also generated in Photoshop.  The filtering and final video production was done in Sony Vegas.

I think that launching a blog on Friday 13th will work out very well.