Barry Truax
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Truax |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Truax |
| SIGNATURE | TRUAX B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speech, music, soundscape and listening
The author discusses the relationship between experiential listening knowledge and scientific interdisciplinary knowledge in regard to sound, with particular emphasis on soundscape composition and electroacoustic signal processing
Acoustic Ecology and the World Soundscape Project
The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art
This chapter examines distributed sounding art by focusing on three key aspects that we consider essentially tied to the notion of distribution: assignment, transport and sharing. These aspects aid us in navigating through a number of nodes in a history of sounding art practices where sound becomes assigned, transported and shared between places and people. Sound or data become distributed, and in the process of distribution, meanings become assi…
Routledge Companion to Sounding Art
Electroacoustic Music and the Digital Future
This article outlines the author's views on the contemporary social and economic situation of electroacoustic music and digital technology in general. The dominance of commercial interests in shaping the listener, the artist, and the definition of culture is examined. Issues associated with digital technology, such as standardization, de-skilling, and upgrades, are discussed with respect to artistic practice. It is argued that marginalized artfor…
Song of Songs
Soundscape, acoustic communication and environmental sound composition
Composing with Time-Shifted Environmental Sound
The author describes the compositional process involved in using sampled environmental sounds as the sole source material for his works Pacific (1990) and Dominion (1991). All sounds are heard at their original pitch but are processed using a time-stretching technique implemented in his software for real-time granular synthesis. In terms of timbral composition, the technique increases the perceived volume or magnitude of the sound. Such magnifica…
Sequence of Earlier Heaven
Electroacoustic technology (the tape studio and digital synthesis and composition) has enabled the author to conceive of and execute a series of musical works (comprising a single phonograph record) that embody the archetypes and relationships found in one of the I Ching patterns of trigrams, namely the Sequence of Earlier Heaven. Although records have traditionally been regarded as preserved performances, he proposes viewing them as a compositio…
Handbook for Acoustic Ecology
Handbook for Acoustic Ecology
Sequence of Earlier Heaven
Electroacoustic technology (the tape studio and digital synthesis and composition) has enabled the author to conceive of and execute a series of musical works (comprising a single phonograph record) that embody the archetypes and relationships found in one of the I Ching patterns of trigrams, namely the Sequence of Earlier Heaven. Although records have traditionally been regarded as preserved performances, he proposes viewing them as a compositio…
Composing with Time-Shifted Environmental Sound
The author describes the compositional process involved in using sampled environmental sounds as the sole source material for his works Pacific (1990) and Dominion (1991). All sounds are heard at their original pitch but are processed using a time-stretching technique implemented in his software for real-time granular synthesis. In terms of timbral composition, the technique increases the perceived volume or magnitude of the sound. Such magnifica…
Soundscape, acoustic communication and environmental sound composition
Song of Songs
Electroacoustic Music and the Digital Future
This article outlines the author's views on the contemporary social and economic situation of electroacoustic music and digital technology in general. The dominance of commercial interests in shaping the listener, the artist, and the definition of culture is examined. Issues associated with digital technology, such as standardization, de-skilling, and upgrades, are discussed with respect to artistic practice. It is argued that marginalized artfor…
The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art
This chapter examines distributed sounding art by focusing on three key aspects that we consider essentially tied to the notion of distribution: assignment, transport and sharing. These aspects aid us in navigating through a number of nodes in a history of sounding art practices where sound becomes assigned, transported and shared between places and people. Sound or data become distributed, and in the process of distribution, meanings become assi…
Routledge Companion to Sounding Art
Acoustic Ecology and the World Soundscape Project
Speech, music, soundscape and listening
The author discusses the relationship between experiential listening knowledge and scientific interdisciplinary knowledge in regard to sound, with particular emphasis on soundscape composition and electroacoustic signal processing
Music Technology and Sound Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Acoustics (4 works) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)