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Student Spotlight – Al Zlogar

Field recorder in hand, Al learned how to critically listen to a space – from dissecting individual ambient sounds to understanding how they harmonize together to create the individual sound of a space.

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MNEMONIC FISSURE

MNEMONIC FISSURE: Wound, toxicity, aurality, allopoiesis, animal-machine, pressure, simulation, resonance, receptacle, impulse. By Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

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Alexie Ivanovich

An interview with Persian hip hop producer and MC, Alexie Ivanovich, on her debut album release of instrumentals, “Jolfa”, her life in Iran and time studying at the UPA. By Deniz Ataman.

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HoneyChild Coleman Meets Ghost Producer – The Original Bedouin Sound Clash

HoneyChild Coleman and Raz Mesinai (Badawi, Ghost Producer, Sub Dub) release the original ROIR demo on UPA recordings.

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How To Kill A Boom Box: Rise of the Ghost Producer (Badawi and Psy Co.)

Psy Co was a New York City based DIY cassette production crew founded in 1989 by prolific producer Raz Mesinai (Ghost Producer, Badawi, Sub Dub).

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Ra’oof (TR7)

Part of our artists on artists series, HPrizm interviews Philadelphian curator, performance artist and creative director Raoof aka TR7

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The Meditations of Dälek

Part of our artists on artists series, Raz Mesinai delves into the murky sonic depths of Daleks “Meditations” series on Bandcamp.

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LRAD Defense Info Sheet

LRAD defense info, we will continue to update

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The Invisible Art of Scent and Sound

The science behind sound is well understood and concrete: a series of perceptible and imperceptible vibrations stimulate nerve endings in our primary auditory cortex to create sound we can perceive.

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The Female Voices Of Hip Hop In Iran

For international women’s day, the UPA is proud to deliver a mix of some of the most powerful female rappers and producers taking Hip Hop by storm in Iran.

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The waveform is a veil: hacking sound and the illusion of ownership

“Don’t make a sound”? Ironically, one of the most effective ways to sneak into a computer system is by making a sound.

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Maryanne Amacher

To open the “third ear”, as she called it, all of these components had to be exact to her specifications, without compromise.

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Tone Delay Rack by Viberous

Viberous (UPA Records) offers a resounding spatial effect from his latest album.

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Student Spotlight: Satya Hinduja

UPA alumni Satya discusses her amazing work in sound, healing and meditation.

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Student Spotlight: Sabine Blaizin

UPA alumni and upcoming DJ’s DJ, Sabine Blaizin is blazing through New York city’s nightclubs, bringing the African diaspora to the masses in the form of addictive and soulful dance music.

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Michele Darling: The Places Sound Takes You

The sound designer shares her unique journey through sound design for children’s media and education.

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ZamZam: System Wide Dub

The pioneers behind Portland based label ZamZam talk about keeping dub music alive and on schedule.

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Critical Listening with Audio Forensics Expert Ed Primeau

Ed will be a lecturer on audio enhancement at this year’s UPA Sound Design Career Development Program.

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Freakatone FX Volume 1

Four mind bending send effects in a Live Set. Created by Ghost Producer and ready for battle.

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Folktek, Functions & Freakatone

Todd Krupa will deliver an online, live streaming lesson taking psuedo random triggers made in Reaktor through an awesome pair of analog modules courtesy of the man behind Folktek – Arius Blaze.

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G.A.T. (Grain Audio Table) Texture Sampler for Reaktor

GAT particularly excels at drippy, elastic noises that ramp up and fit between stronger beats, creating ‘syrup’ in the rhythm.

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MTHW – Patchbay Diagrams

A brief visual of the situation going down at Scotty Hard’s studio.

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The Heretic of Ether by Raz Mesinai

A graphic novel for Ipad.

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M4L Device – SloFO v1.1

A remake from the bottom up of the popular Max for Live LFO. Includes enhanced randomization, Sample & Hold, and GUI improvements.

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Music for Film Class Demo

A sonic landscape for moving picture, taken from the Sound for Picture class.

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Source Maneuvers

A specific workflow from Todd Krupa, underscoring the similarity between Synthesis and Sampling methods.

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Music Business with Starkey – Syncs

An excerpt from the Music Business course at the Underground PA.

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Processing Drums With Feedback

Feedback usage, in context of a nasty dancehall rhythm, a la Raz Mesinai.

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DAW – Browser pt. 1

Ableton’s browser system has broad implications for the way you work and build on sounds.

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DAW – Drum Racks pt. 1

Drum Racks are Ableton’s way of loading just about anything onto a single Pad or Key.

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DAW – Audio Effect Racks pt. 1

Audio Effect Racks add useful tools to the standard signal flow.

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DAW – Clip Editing pt. 1

A basic rundown of essential clip editing features in Ableton.

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Sound Alchemy – Source pt.1

A closer look at the “source” section of synthesizers.

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Sound Alchemy – Signal Flow pt.1

Tracing the signal flow commonly found in Synthesizers, to get an overview of how to study them.

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DAW – Instrument Racks pt.1

Instrument racks are the preferred “shell” for saving all kinds of sounds.

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Cyborg Acoustics

Raz Mesinai shows how to create deep drones using a sub pack and an acoustic bass drum.

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Piano Manipulations

Raz Mesinai demonstrating extended manipulations for acoustic piano. Digital deconstruction ensues.

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HPRIZM Performance @ AotSC 2014

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Ableton Matryoshka

A few of the workflow implications built into the file format system of Ableton Live.

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Tapped Recording

The timing of human cadence bends subtly, but DAWs seem to insist on nice, even beats and bars.

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