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The Sound Examples for Sound Color

Please Note: This CD is intended mainly for owners of the 1985 hardbound edition of Sound Color; it is included at no extra charge in the new paperback edition.


Contents of the Sound Examples CD (YGM-02)

Track numbers refer to the CD; Example numbers, to the table of Recorded Examples on p. xxxiii in Sound Color; the page numbers in the Description, to the corresponding discussions in the text.

Track Example Description
1 1A Pitch change in systems with weak coupling (p. 29). Three different filter settings are excited by a buzz at 65 Hz, then again by a buzz at 130 Hz.
2 1B Pitch change in systems with weak coupling (p. 29). Three different filter settings are excited by a buzz at 65 Hz, then again by a buzz at 130 Hz.
3 2A Three different filter settings excited by impulses (p. 44).
4 2B The filters of Example 2A excited by pulse trains (p. 45).
5 2C The filters of Example 2A excited by noise (p. 46).
6 3A Acuteness transposition (p. 70). Colors [uu oe oo] are transposed in acuteness to [oe ii ne].
7 3B Openness transposition (p. 70). Colors [uu oe oo] are transposed in openness to [oo ne aw].
8 3C Smallness transposition (p. 70). Colors [uu oe oo] are transposed in smallness to [ne ee aa].
9 4 Laxness transposition with "wrap-around" (p. 75). The noise-excited sequence [uu ii ae] is laxness-transposed step-wise to neutrality, then "wrapped-around" to its original non-lax state.
10 5A Acuteness inversion (p. 77). Colors [oo ee uu aw] are acuteness-inverted to [ee oo ii ae].
11 5B Openness inversion (p. 78). Colors [oo ee uu aw] are openness-inverted to [oo ee aw uu].
12 5C Smallness inversion (p. 78). Colors [oo ee uu aw] are smallness-inverted to [aa oe ae aw].
13 6A The laxness dimension (p. 161). A sequence of colors is laxness-transposed step-wise to neutrality, then the process is reversed.
14 6B Color preservation under laxness transposition (p.161). A version of Example 6A with varied rhythms, pitches and source types.
15 7A Color in previous music (p. 178). The opening of Ensembles for Synthesizer by Milton Babbitt. Associated Music Publishers, Inc. (BMI). Used by permission.
16 7B Clips from the four "static" sounds in Ensembles for Synthesizer by Milton Babbitt. (p. 178).
17 8A A color-combinatorial duet (p. 213--14). A noise-excited, nine-color sequence is combined contrapuntally with its opennness-inverted, retrograded transformation with pitched excitation. See Table 6 (a).
18 8B Another color-combinatorial duet (p. 213--14). Here the original sequence is pitch-excited; its transformation in the second voice, by noise. See Table 6 (b).
19 9, 10, 11 A stereo version of Wayne Slawson's Colors. For discussion of the composition as a whole, see pages 207--22. The begin times of each variation are shown with reference to the beginning of Track 19. Selected variations are discussed in detail on the indicated pages.
VariationBeginsDescription
1 0m 00s Example 9 (p. 217)
2 1m 58s  
3 3m 54s Example 10 (p. 220)
4 5m 52s  
5 8m 45s  
6 9m 55s  
7 10m 12s  
8 10m 35s  
9 12m 35s  
10 14m 03s  
11 15m 33s Example 11 (p. 221)

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