Scott Mc Laughlin - Composer
Resonances: Impulse responses of glass bowls
This forms part of a larger project of compositional research that treats instruments as resonant spaces, using different foces to activate and sculpt the natural resonant frequencies of that space and an exploration of its harmony. See also the collection of pieces called There are neither wholes nor parts.
11-03-12: I travelled down to Oxford University for a day of recording and informal discussion around Shelley James' resonant glassworks. The meeting arose out of seeing Shelley's work presented at the SPEEC forum back in January where she was working with composer Christopher Garrard on pieces exploring the resonance of her glass bowls. For my part, I was interested in capturing the resonance of the different bowls as impulse responses (IRs), to create convolution reverbs from the sound of the bowls as resonant spaces.
Special thanks to Alex Harker for his impulse-reponse capture patch (MaxMSP) currently being developed as part of the excellent HISStools package