Scholarly Voice Playground
umihsu wrote 8 posts
Our project is included in the Provoke! Digital Sound Studies web collection via Duke University. It’s a great honor to be a part of an innovative publication of works by sound thinkers/tinkerers. In addition to what’s available on this site, the Provoke! collection showcases notes that reflect on the Paperphone design process. “Throughout our design […]
We had a blast launching Paperphone at the Arnold Schonberg Building at UCLA in May. Jonathan and I introduced the project. The audience participated by asking astute questions that intersected audio technology and new forms of scholarly communication. Following the three demo-presentations, the event concluded by a workshop on Paperphone led by Jonathan. I presented […]
At our demo event at UCLA, we learned that we could add an audio preferences selector to our max patch GUI. With this feature, users (who are using Max Runtime) without the full version of Max can easily configure their audio settings for Paperphone. Read the Getting Started tutorial page to learn how to use the […]
To prepare for the UCLA launch event, I played with Paperphone in the context of a paper I wrote a little while ago. Because this paper contains a couple of audio examples, I quickly realized that I needed a file player that can preload more than one audio file that’s ready for playback. Jonathan responded […]
In a couple of weeks, Jonathan and I will join a couple of experimenters (musicology PhD student Mike D’Errico, artist James Raymond, and anthropologist Alexandra Lippman of Sound Ethnography) to demonstrate the possibilities of Paperphone. We are excited to play with our audio processing application in and outside of the expected rituals of scholarly knowledge production. […]
We are happy to announce the official release of Paperphone 1.0. This version comes with a menu of whopping 16 presets. The new effect presets include: Operatic, Stairwell, Walkie Talkie, Femme, Butch, Lo-fi, Auditorium, Garage, Eavesdropping, and Hypothetical. This is an addition to the original 6 presets (Megaphone, Robot, Archive, Intercom, Artifact, and Spacey) that […]
We did some development work based on the feedback we got from you the last couple of days. We are releasing a second beta version of Paperphone. [Read about design ideas and background related to Paperphone.] In this version, we improved the user interface, added key controls and fixed presets, and resolved a Windows Runtime issue. The […]
Jonathan and I are excited to release our first beta version of Paperphone! Paperphone is a scholarly voice playground. It is a vocal effect processor designed for scholarly papers. Designed to transform the role of the voice in scholarship, the user could apply audio effects (including distortion, reverb, echo, vocoder!, etc) to their voice during […]
Scholarly Voice Playground