Electronic Frequencies

In the 1940s, the Nobel prize winning physicist Dennis Gabor proposed that any sound could be decomposed into acoustical quanta bounded by discrete units of time and frequency. This quantum representation formed the famous Gabor matrix. Like a sonogram, the vertical dimension of the Gabor matrix indicates the location of the frequency energy, while the horizontal dimension indicates the time region in which this energy occurred.
 

In a related project, Gabor built a machine to granulate sound into particles. This machine could
alter the duration of a sound without shifting its pitch.
In these two projects, the matrix and the granulator, Gabor accounted for both important domains of sound representation.
01/Xenakis: Concrete PH (1958). *
Barry Truax managed to create granular synthesis in real time using the PODX system, at the Simon Fraser University.
02/ Barry Truax: The blind man (1979). excerpt **
Curtis Roads ***:
03/         Now (2003). 6:14.    
04/         Eleventh Vortex (2001). 4:06.    
05/         Half-life, Part I: Sonal Atoms (1999). 3:34.  06/         Half-life, Part II: Granules (1999). 2:44.    
07/         Sculptor (2001). 3:13.    
08/         Volt Air, Part I (2003). 3:16.    
09/         Volt Air, Part II (2003). 2:35.    
10/         Volt Air, Part III (2003). 2:15.    
11/         Volt Air, Part IV (2003). 2:07.    
12/         Fluxon (2003). 3:05.    
13/         Pictor Alpha (2003). 3:23.    
14/         Nanomorphosis (2003). 3:16.
* REGRM 007 / Iannis Xenakis    
GRM Works 1957-1962.
**
Barry Truax‎– Digital Soundscapes
Label:
Cambridge Street Records ‎– CSR-CD 8701.
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CD13           Tenth Vortex (2000). 3:01.    
DVD01         Sculptor (2001). 3:12.    
DVD02         Half-life (1999) Parts I And II. 7:36.    
DVD03         Volt Air, Part I (2003). 3:14.    
DVD04         Volt Air, Part II (2003). 2:34.    
DVD05         Volt Air, Part III (2003). 3:19.    
DVD06         Volt Air, Part IV (2003). 2:01.    
DVD07         Fluxon (2003). 3:09.    
DVD08         Pictor Alpha (2003). 3:25.    
DVD09         Nanomorphosis (2003). 3:15.    
DVD10         Sonal Atoms Visualization By Woon Seung Yeo. 3:36.    
DVD11         Pictor Alpha Visualization By Garry Kling. 3:26.    
DVD12         Audio Lecture By Curtis Roads At Stanford University June 2004. 20:57.    
DVD13         Historical Example Of Granular Synthesis: Prototype (1975). 6:42.    
Curtis Roads – Point Line Cloud.
Label:
Asphodel – ASP 3000
Format:
CD
DVD
Country:
US
Released:
30 Mar 2005.