Sound Microscope by Jason Freeman and Mark Godfrey for iSAW

Composer Jason Freeman asks you:
What is sound made of?

Sound Microscope is free to use available through our website. But donations would be most appreciated. Hope you enjoy it and please, drop me a note to let us know how you like it.

To find it, simply click on the image above

“In the science classes I took growing up, we spent a lot of time learning about the complexities of the world that are not visible to the naked eye. We watched the powers of ten movie. We created chemical reactions. And we looked at all kinds of things under the microscope. But it wasn’t until many years later that I learned how the same thing is true for sound. There are all kinds of amazing structures within sounds that are hard for the naked ear to notice.” So when we asked Jason to come up with an interactive piece for our website to help people better understand sound, he came up with the idea of a Sound Microscope.

Sound Microscope is a simple interactive web application designed by Jason Freeman and Mark Godfrey for exploring the inner lives of sounds. A pan-and-zoom interface (similar to online map services) isolates small fragments of a sound file in time and frequency space, bringing structural subtleties and hidden details to the aural foreground. It is intended to help students (or anyone!) learn about the visual representation of a sound and its frequency components while encouraging them to listen in new ways and from new perspectives.

Jason Freeman will be uploading this project into our website during his upcoming residency at iSAW, September 26-29, 2008. Here is his schedule:

1. 09-26-09 7:30-11:30AM: special guest lecturer: isaw’s sound studies classes, Design and Architecture Senior High School
2. 09-27-09 10AM-4PM: sound microscope session / upload, isaw, 12355 NE 13 ave #206
3. 09-28-09 2PM: featured artist: Living[room]Music, Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Boulevard

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links to coverage:

South Florida Classical Review,

LISTEN TO AN INTERVIEW WITH JASON FREEMAN THAT APPEARED AUGUST in KADMUSARTS.COM

EDWARD SHANNON

internship dates: may 15 – august 29, 2008

Majoring in Music Technology at the School of Music, Florida International University in Miami, Edward Shannon spent his summer at isaw in order to complete the nine internship credits required for his graduation.

Must of his duties centered around work related to isaw’s sound archive. He mostly work with DP, making backups of multi-channel recordings of previous Subtropics Festivals, mixing and mastering stereo reference files in preparation for David Dunn’s Archive Assessment and Evaluation Project. He also assisted during recording sessions.

Edward Shannon is very creative and displays a well rounded interdisciplinary education. His instruments are the viola (both acoustic and 5-string Viper electric) and the laptop computer with Max/MSP.

Upon graduation, he plans to dedicate his time to establishing his name as a performer, composer and electronic musician.

february 15-29, 2008
iSAW – resident artist (iAR-02-08)
isoundstudio
12355 NE 13 Avenue, North Miami

lecture: progressive rock – enrique jardines (tba)
i sound studio: recording, editing, mastering, multi-media

collaborative residency: towards Dew of Repentance
BlackShiftRed (Adam Rush, Aislinn Quinn, and Enrique Jardines)
Absolute Zero (Enrique Jardines, Aislinn Quinn, Phil Miller, and Mark Fletcher)

Dew of Repentance - installation view

this collaborative interactive residency brings together the members of BlackShiftRed and Absolute Zero to develop material and performance strategies for two works-in-progress: Noicon and Dew of Repentance

Noicon begins its journey with bits of music taken from Absolute Zero’s recording sessions with Pip Pyle for the CD “Crashing Icons”, adds further music bits from current Absolute Zero musicians, and ends up, via Black Shift Red members, interactively generating compositional elements to create a DVD of video/music pieces that mirror the original core within each of the Crashing Icons pieces.

Dew of Repentance is a complex work based on community-input via cellphone and web text, as well as interactive video, music, digitized puppetry and performance. It explores the concept of a city’s aggregated regret and empowerment. The piece was partially commissioned by the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

The materials developed during this residency will be used by BlackShiftRed composer/multimedia performance artists Aislinn Quinn and Adam Rush in a presentation of the Dew concept and compositional approach.

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this residency is made possible through grants from the department of cultural affairs of miami dade county and the division of cultural affairs of the state of florida

sound microscope
a virtual space project by composer, intermedia artist JASON FREEMAN

jason freeman’s creative residency at isaw consists of a project he calls sound microscope, a web applet designed for isaw’s main page that will help users explore the complex inner structures of sounds. a simple visual interface (think google maps, but for sound) that will let you zoom in and out and move up and down to isolate and magnify tiny moments in time and tiny slices in frequency of a short sound file

after some preliminary planning at isaw’s [i] soundstudio, jason will return to georgia and work on the design of his sound microscope, scheduled for its final web release as an element of this website on September 28, 2008. a workshop will follow at a later date (tba)

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