“We head to the Queen City – Cincinnati, Ohio — to talk to the man largely considered the Father of Circuit Bending: Qubais Reed Ghazala. The thoughtful Ghazala strolls down memory lane for some of his early endeavors into the world of circuit bending while also letting us in on a few tidbits of information about himself.”

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“Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is so advanced today that it can bedifficult to distinguish from reality. But the creation of the sounds that accompany the images are still largely the work of skilled “Foley artists ” working with physical props.”

“Soon, though, computers may be able to generate eerily accurate sounds for film soundtracks too. For the first time, a team of computer scientists has reproduced the sound of flowing and dripping by modelling the way water creates sound in the real world .”

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“The clatter of a dropped trash can and the crash of a cymbal – both easily recognisable sounds. That’s why computer games or CGI movies that feature such noises use samples recorded from life, not generated by software as the graphics have been.  It would take weeks of intense computing to synthesise the sound of a single cymbal clash.”

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“In this lecture, Clifford Nass describes how the human brain and body are “wired” for speech: The sound of a voice, whether from a person or machine, causes us to respond as we respond to actual people and to behave as we could in any social situation. In addition, Nass will discuss the speech interactions between humans and machines.”

“In the music science and technology program at Tulane University, students are applying intricate algorithms to create digital music under the direction of Tae Hong Park, an assistant professor and a composer of electro-acoustic music.”