Tuning a glass harmonica

Posted by on Jun 24, 2012 in Agence 5970, Frank Dufour | No Comments

Tuning a Glass Harmonica This is a binaural recording of the tuning of a glass harmonica.    

“Flesh World,” The Most Dangerous Play in the World

Posted by on May 25, 2012 in Frank Dufour | No Comments

Website [Extract Below] Sound Design by Frank Dufour FLESH WORLD  the most dangerous play in the world Written and directed by Thomas Riccio…Created by Dead White Zombies Rather than just dip a toe into the quickly transforming West Dallas area directly in the shadow of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, this combination of installation, sound […]

Images of Time.

Posted by on May 22, 2012 in Frank Dufour | No Comments

Grotte Chauvet. Jean-Marie Chauvet. © DRAC The image above is a valid example of a complex conceptual system of expression that organizes time and altogether uses this organization to support itself. This image invents the abstraction of time i.e. the homogeneous dimension of succession, by clearly inscribing on Space a temporal object that would not exist […]

Translations of Dimensions of Time

Posted by on May 21, 2012 in Frank Dufour | No Comments

Translations of dimensions of Time Introduction “What we must say is that we have to do with two different kinds of reality, the one heterogeneous, that of sensible qualities, the other homogeneous, namely space. This latter, clearly conceived by the human intellect, enables us to use clean-cut distinctions, to count, to abstract, and perhaps also […]

Acoustic Camera

Posted by on Mar 25, 2012 in Agence 5970, Frank Dufour | No Comments

Acoustic Camera: the ideal device to record acoustic space with sound sources localization. http://www.mariaero.com/Acoustic_Beamforming.php

100 x John

Posted by on Mar 25, 2012 in Frank Dufour | No Comments

Ear to Earth Website Frank Dufour is participating in a collective composition and celebration of the 100 year birthday of John Cage : In 1937, in a talk titled The Future of Music: Credo, John Cage said, “I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music […]

Acoustic Ecology

Posted by on Feb 19, 2012 in Frank Dufour | No Comments

  Visit the Global Composition Website “Sound is ubiquitous and permanent, and embraces us as an envelope. Therefore, the experience of the auditory can be considered an environmental experience par excellence. The term and concept of soundscape reflects this idea. It implies, that sounds do not exist in isolation, and have to be understood as […]

The Fugacious Quality of Sound

Posted by on Jan 28, 2012 in Frank Dufour | No Comments

So when I was asked today what differentiates a sound artist from say,  a sculptor; it took me a while to realize that it is the fugacious quality of sound that forces one to accept that one’s work or results are fleeting.

Binaural soundscape

Posted by on Dec 20, 2011 in Frank Dufour | No Comments

App Demo: An Android Remote Control for the SoundScape Renderer from Spatial Audio Research on Vimeo.

Reality

Posted by on Dec 4, 2011 in Frank Dufour | No Comments

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. Philip K. Dick