electronic improv recommendations

[dwane@xxxxxxxxx]

If you create an empty soundfile it still contains the information of being
a "sound file" so I dont really think there is such a thing, even if Im sure
theres a lot of ways of creating something a lot of people can agree upon
beeing digital silence. The digital world have a lot incommon with our
physical one.

To achieve something like this, I recorded a few seconds of nothing in Peak,
amplified it a hundred or maybe more times, also turned that audio into
pictures, put them together to achive a realtime like animation.

Its on
http://members01.chello.se/dwane
and is called "digital silence"

Tommy Dwane Filipowicz


> i could very well be wrong about this.. but a digital "silent
> waveform" is simply a soundfile with nothing there... 00000000. and,
> would seem to reason that YES.. it is true silence.. not counting of
> course the hiss or hum coming out of your amplification system upon
> playback or whatever..
>
> i'm sure there are silence purists out there who will find fault in
> what i'm saying.. but that's the way i perceive it anyway... but i'm
> not an expert..

>>i thought of that, as well. Now, tell me, please, isn't it impossible to
>>achieve total digital silence? I'm not real knowledgable about this stuff,
>>and I like to learn about the sounds (or lack of!). I was under the
>>impression that even in digital silence there is some small bit of sound ,
>>would that mean then, that you ARE always picking up small morsels of sound,
>>and that is why you always get a different output? Or, is it the sound from
>>the energy source you are utilizing that gives the different outputs? THAT
>>is what I meant to ask the first time!  took me 2 tries, I'm improving!
>>Thanks for replying.