mattt [at] matttmusic [dot] com

Continuing on my crusade to promote rather bladdy nifty audio softs, i am promoting this little number, coded by the late great Arguru.

"Stardust is a powerful plug-in for channel processing, or mastering. Stardust has 5 processing stages : Bass Enhancer, Treble Enhancer, Stereo Enhancer, Multi-band Compressor, Wideband Compressor. Almost each stage has a VU meter or oscilloscope for monitoring purpose."

And it is really rather nifty (and free) indeed!

IT'S BIG

IT'S BAD

IT'S A BELUGA

FREE AudioUnit and VST PHASE DISTORTION for OS X only (sorry)

made by me in SonicBirth

In order to use this plug-in (AU or VST) you need to download and install this free plug-in authoring software, so that you have all the libraries. This is worth getting even if you don't like/use my design.

Both AU and VST are in the same zip. Place the .component and/or .vst in the relevant directory under user/library/audio/plug-ins

CHEERS.

New Façades installation
Saturday October 4th to Tuesday October 14th

Crescent Arts with Yorkshire Coast College and Hull University Scarborough Campus; photography by Graham Mack

Crescent Artspace opens with an intriguing installation of sound and vision, offering a contemporary insight into the artistic legacy of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Wood End, the former home of the Sitwells, provides an impressive backdrop to this collaboration between Crescent Artspace, students and tutors from Yorkshire Coast College costume design department, and the sound department of Hull University Scarborough Campus. Through the combined talents of visual artists, designers, makers, performers, and audio artists, a fascinating and inspiring series of audio-visual works has emerged, referencing the photography of Cecil Beaton, the poetry of Edith Sitwell, and the architecture of Wood End. Experience the poetry of Façade as never before, navigate our virtual artspace before it goes onto our website. You may even encounter the reincarnation of Edith Sitwell.

Crescent Artspace will be open from Tuesdays to Saturdays between 11.00am and 5.00pm. Admission is free.

I'll be attending this:

Soundwalking Leeds by John Levack Drever

an event related to the current exhibition Licht auf Licht by Gerhard Kassner and Hans Peter Kuhn. http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk/events_unidd21a_page.aspx

Thursday 25 September 2008
5-6.30pm, meet at PSL

A deliberate walk focused on listening to the everyday sounds of Leeds as they unfold around us. Haphazard by-product or conscious design, the walk will expose the atmospheres and rhythms of the city on a Thursday evening from 5 - 6.30pm, probing at how the encounter is transformed as we traverse the city. Opening with a short talk on listening, the walk with end with an open forum to discuss what was experienced.

Bio:
John Levack Drever is a sonic artists and soundscape researcher focusing on human utterance and background noise. Commissions range from the RSPB (2002) to the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris (1999). He is a Lecturer in Composition at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is chair of Sonic Arts Network and the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community (a regional affiliate of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology). He latest CD, Cattle Grids of Dartmoor was released by Pataphonic (http://www.pataphonic.com/).

Drever has recently written a book chapter on soundwalking ("Soundwalking: Aural Excursions into the Everyday") for The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), edited by James Saunders [forthcoming, 2009].


PSL [Project Space Leeds]
Whitehall Waterfront, 2 Riverside Way, Leeds, LS1 4EH, UK
info@projectspaceleeds.org.uk
+44 (0)7930 236383
http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk/