These include: Echophon, Telharmonic, Erbe-Verb and Morphagene.
Audio archivist for the David Tudor archive at the Getty Research Institute.These include Spectral Shapers, freesound, delay trio, and Pvoc Kit. Developed 17 sound processing plugins to use in all areas of sound design.Designed and supervised the installation of the Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio at California Institute of the Arts.Developed and built the NASA Ames Auditory Display Processor, a four-channel binaural processor designed to improve communication intelligibility for NASA launch and mission control.If you know the childrens toy Lite Brite, where you poke colored pegs through a back lit screen, Array is the.
SoundHack is used extensively for the sound design for The Matrix, which wins the Academy Award in sound design. This software is still widely used today. Array is an easy to use animation program.
As a recording engineer, Tom Erbe has produced over 100 CDs of contemporary music, including the restoration of James Tenney’s early computer music, recording of Bridge Records’ Morton Feldman series, compilation of the Lyrachord series of contemporary Indonesian music, and production of over 20 years of the Leonardo Music Journal ‘s annual compilation of experimental music.
Tom Erbe has performed, and collaborated on, electronic music pieces by Alvin Lucier, John Cage, James Tenney, Maryanne Amacher, Larry Polansky, Alvin Curran, Robert Ashley, Clipping, and others.
He creates computer music software and hardware, most notably the sound processing application SoundHack, the many soundhack plugins, and several ground-breaking synthesis modules developed with Make Noise Music. To all Mac users who want to use the VST GUI now: you can download the latest.
Tom Erbe is deeply involved and dedicated to electronic and computer music research, and creation. Soundhack has released Mac AU/VST updates of Delay Trio and Freesound, two bundles of free effect plug-ins. In the meantime enjoy this amazing little video.Phone: 858 534-5277 Off: CPMC 254 | Discography More information will hopefully occur on the Make Noise website at some point. I always feel like I’ve discovered something new and exciting about the world when I look at Make Noise demos, but I would never hope to explain what is going on in this video. Loving the forward and reverse display in the middle. Here we’ve record and play which is simple enough, then splice, reel, gene-size, splice, vari-Speed, SOS and Organise, which are less so. There are also “genes” which get down to microsecond second size for granular processing. You can splice the reels together within that 87 seconds and you can have up to 99 splices. Although I think that’s just the name for the files because you can store them on SD cards. It has a stereo input and can record sounds to reels – yes, reels. It captures, regenerates and processes sound from inside or outside your modular system. They are calling it a “microsound and tape music module”.