

The emergence of a dedicated musicological subfield on the art of record production is evidence enough of this trend. Given the growing importance attached to the study of recorded sound in recent scholarship, one may argue that studio craftsmanship comprises part of rock music’s core aesthetics. Some occasional audio dropouts seem to have appeared during conversion: sorry about that.In his article, ‘Rock Aesthetics and Musics of the World’, Motti Regev defines ‘studio craftsmanship’ as one of rock music’s ‘wider aesthetics’ (2004, 125). This video dates from the end of 2006, covering Sonic Visualiser 1.0.

The music is Ron Parker's mix of "Cold Duck" played by the Terrace Martin Trio, taken from the tutorial Mastering with JAMin and Ardour.

Then we hit the magic Align button which calculates a time-alignment, and play again with alignment, switching between tracks at will while remaining at the same point in the underlying musical score.ĭecember 2006: Sonic Visualiser runthroughĪ quick tour (with sound, but no narration) of some of the features of Sonic Visualiser. The three audio recordings are loaded, and are first played all together (cacophonously, because they have quite different timing), then solo'ed but unaligned. This is an example with three different historical recordings of the same classical work. For information about the chord transcription and segmentation methods, see Matthias's research.įebruary 2009: Audio alignment using Sonic Visualiser and MATCHĪn example of automatic alignment of audio for the purpose of comparing recordings, using Sonic Visualiser with the MATCH audio alignment plugin. Note that the data shown here was calculated by a separate program and is simply loaded (from text files) for inspection in SV, rather than being calculated within the application. This example is drawn directly from Matthias's everyday use in research on audio chord transcription. Matthias Mauch from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London talks us through a simple example of loading an audio file and some associated data into Sonic Visualiser and looking at the results. Or just for music-loving fun.įebruary 2010: A Sonic Visualiser audio and data visualisation example Matthias Mauch from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London talks us through a simple example of labelling a song excerpt with chords in Sonic Visualiser.Ĭhord labelling can be useful for musicological purposes, or as a reference transcription to test automatic chord labelling algorithms. March 2010: A Sonic Visualiser chord labelling example
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Matthias Mauch shows how to install Sonic Visualiser and a Vamp plugin and then demonstrates an automatic chord transcription. November 2010: How to install Sonic Visualiser and a Vamp plugin (Mac OSX) July 2012: Annotating Bar and Beat Numbersĭan Leech-Wilkinson explains annotation of a bar/beat hierarchy.ĭecember 2010: Analysing temperament in Sonic Visualiserĭan Stowell looks at temperament in harpsichord recordings, using Sonic Visualiser and the TempEst plugin. This video was produced by Musicology for the Masses.ĭan Leech-Wilkinson examines the relationship between rubato and loudness in musical performance.

Sonic Visualiser runthrough Chris Cannam, July 2012ĭan Leech-Wilkinson looks at melody and rubato in musical performance.Audio alignment using Sonic Visualiser and MATCH Chris Cannam, February 2009.A Sonic Visualiser audio and data visualisation example Matthias Mauch, February 2010.A Sonic Visualiser chord labelling example Matthias Mauch, March 2010.How to install Sonic Visualiser and a Vamp plugin (Mac OSX) Matthias Mauch, November 2010.Analysing temperament in Sonic Visualiser Dan Stowell, December 2010.Annotating Bar and Beat Numbers Dan Leech-Wilkinson, July 2012.Mapping Rubato and Loudness Dan Leech-Wilkinson, July 2012.Mapping Melody Dan Leech-Wilkinson, July 2012.
