First week is an intro into Mono and Stereo (in class study)
Where mono is a sound is a single channel of audio that is played back through a single speaker or a set of speakers reproducing the same signal.
The advantage:
- Simple to create
Disadvantage:
- Due to its coming from a single point source it is easy to overlap and cover up each other when it combines multiple tracks.
Whereas for stereo, it is a sound involving two separate audio channels that are played back through two separate speakers or sets of speakers.
The advantage:
- Allows for the creation of a wider soundstage and a sense of spatial depth, space and directionality.
- For stereo, the techniques like reverb and delay can be used to create a more realistic and engaging spatial representation of sound sources
Disadvantage:
- Stereo spatialization is limited to a horizontal plane, making it difficult to accurately represent sound sources located above or below the listener’s plane.
Mono
Stereo
This week i’m starting to mind map my ideas for this assignment, it has been a long process to find out my ideas, where during this time my friend invite me to collaborate an album with them, where it needs a intro that conveys their concept, it is an abstract genre which l have never experience before, it’s more like an audio paper than simple sound piece, but l consider this might be a great opportunity for me to use all the knowledge that we learned from class, such as reverb and multi-channel recording, we need to combine both conversation and music, it is still in the progress of choosing what to include, maybe it’s an audio paper to introduce all songs, it might also be a sound piece that is leading the audience to its album. However, As a dancer, l’m also considering create a spatialization environment that can feel music or convey music with their movement. from the history to now dancers always collaborate dance moves with music, it usually created after the music being made, however l wanted to know whether movement can cause or lead sound, it is also an area that sound installation researched on.