SOUNDHACK MSI ARCHIVE
SOUNDHACK MSI SOFTWARE

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.

SOUNDHACK MSI SOFTWARE

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.

Created SoundHack, a spectral sound processing application for the Macintosh, one of the first freeware computer music programs, and winner of first prize at the first Concours de Logiciels Musicaux at the IMEB Festival in Bourges.

Performed electronics and “rhythm orchestra” on Robert Ashley’s ground-breaking opera Improvement. (1989).

Developed the first CD quality (16-bit) audio interface for the Macintosh with Micro Technology Unlimited.Developed (with Andy Voelkel) a real-time pitch detector and performance system for Max Mathews’ electronic violin for János Négysey (1986).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. Tom Erbe is deeply involved and dedicated to electronic and computer music research, and creation.

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