I am giving a talk at La Salle University : School of Arts and Sciences at 3PM on Monday September 28

Creative Explosion in the West - Communication Arts Multi-Disciplinary Festival | University of Western Sydney UWS

The School of Communication Arts (UWS) presents ‘Creative Explosion in the West,’ a multi-disciplinary festival and forums for the general public, staff, School-based Honours and Higher Degree Research (HDR) candidates as well as undergraduates.
The event will be held on the 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23 October 2009 on the Penrith Campus (The Playhouse, The Performance Space, Kingswood and Building BJ, Werrington South). It features leading new music group Ensemble Offspring, interacting with the rich knowledge Diaspora and improvising traditions characteristic of Western Sydney, especially the Korean, Philippine, Japanese and Macedonian traditions in 2009.

I have just completed a new work for clarinet and live electronics. The piece has been composed for Jason Noble of Ensemble Offspring and will be performed on Thursday October 22, 2009 - 7:00pm to 9:30pm at the Playhouse on Kingswood Campus of UWS at Penrith, along with a number of new works by colleagues from UWS. See the Ensemble Offspring site for more detail. Here is a very rough draft peak of the new work to whet your appetite
Grace Space

 

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October 10 Events - Including little old me on a panel

I have splashed out and bought myself a portable ambisonic recording setup.

I looked at the Core TetraMic, of which we have one at VIPRE, but decided I really wanted a lower noise floor and so have gone for the Soundfield SPS200 which comes with an excellent plugin to manipulate the image in postproduction. The VVMic and VVteraMic plugins look good, but I feel more comfortable with a large company knowing it will be updated with OS updates etc.

The SPS200 doesn’t require an external hardware processor. Instead, processing software compatible with Pro Tools HD and all platforms supporting VST Multichannel is included, for functions including a to B format conversion and stereo and surround sound decoding and manipulation. The SPS200 uses the same multi-capsule technology as other acclaimed SoundField microphones, and is powered by standard 48V phantom power.

I am pairing this up with an Edirol R-44 Super from Oade Brothers with the Super mic pre upgrade, to minimise self noise. Oade say "The Edirol R44 Super upgrade rebuilds the mic preamps using high speed, very low noise and low distortion op amps that improve intelligibility and low level detail. Components are selected by ear to optimize detail and imaging for ENG, Acoustic Music or Ambient recordings with Ambisonics or Schoeps Surround mics. Improvements are also made to reduce the audible digital noise that contaminates the analog signal path with noise generated by the display, essential for high gain applications."

R-44 case

I will have to be careful to keep the gain settings equal on all 4 channels so that the decoding is OK, but that should not be too much of a problem.

I am using the Core Sound TetraMic Fluffy for the moment

But will probably move to a Rycote pistol grip and Blimp when the bank balance has recovered a little as I am aware these mics have extraordinary low freq. sensitivity which will amplify handling noise.

Some interesting material is available on Angelo Farina's site
and on A and B formats. Also Etien's site over at Ambisonia

Can't wait for it all to arrive and get recording..... yippeeeeee

The Thinking Head Project

FYI – applications close Oct 30

Thinking Head Postgraduate Research Award
Performance Scholarship

I am playing at Soundings 0910 (2009) on September 10.

Love this clip - brought to my attention on Create Digital Music » Disembodied Heads Meet Serato: Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.