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Re: Bell recordings

Date1998-03-19 00:38
FromJean-Michel DARREMONT
SubjectRe: Bell recordings
David Boothe wrote:

> Concerning your request to the csound list, have you looked at
> commercial sound effects recordings? While not inexpensive, they do have
> the advantage of being copyright cleared. And most of the later ones are
> very well recorded.
>
> I looked through the sound effects libraries we have here (about 250
> discs). Most of the bell recordings do not identify the location, other
> than occasionally a country of origin. However, The Hollywood Edge (7060
> Hollywood Boulevard, Suite #1120, Hollywood, California 90028 USA), has
> a library called "European Edition" which lists recordings of St. Peters
> and St. Havels, both in Prague, Big Ben in London as well as several
> others, unidentified. All are on Disc 11.
>
> Of course one problem, is that there are seldom single notes. At best,
> the recordings are of one bell tolling several times. But of course,
> then you have one strike occurring before the previous one has decayed
> completely. I don't know if that would be a problem for analysis or not.
> I assume you are using hetro/adsyn?

Actually I use Audiosculpt for analysis and Csound or Modalys for
resynthesis.
Audiosculpt is a phase vocoder and Modalys a physical modeling language,
both from Ircam.
Modalys can use resonance models, made by analysis.
I never used hetro/adsyn but I will do it soon.

Thank you for your help.

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Jean-Michel DARREMONT