Society
Applied Carpe Diem – Living and Dying with ALS
To fully appreciate life, we also need to understand and appreciate death (read more)
Articles by Steven M. Miller
Sound
What is Black and White in Sound?
How do we remove timbre from sound, the way we can remove color from an image? How do we get an aural analog of black & white images? (read more)
Society
Listening : Modes and Strategies
Listening is largely, though not exclusively, a conscious activity. (read more)
Society
Applied Carpe Diem : Part 2
What makes a person choose whether or not to end one’s own life? It comes back to that tradeoff, I suppose, between quality vs. quantity. (read more)
Art
Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording
‘What is the artistic element of so seemingly ‘passive’ an activity as pointing a mic and pushing the record button?’ Steven Miller teaches us how to record, and how to listen. (read more)
Society
Applied Carpe Diem : Perspectives on Dying.
How would you live your life, if you knew there wasn’t much life left to live? (read more)
Sound
Make Better Music 71: Sound/Light
Though both deal with wave-like phenomena, sound and light each have their own peculiarities. (read more)
Sound
Make Better Music 70 : Time
There is no aural analog of the photograph or still frame from a film. Sound is, at its core, inherently a time-dependent phenomenon. (read more)
Art
Make Better Music 69: On Sound
“It is common for us to be in situations where we can not see (or at least vision is severely restricted) but exceedingly uncommon to be in situations where we can not hear” (read more)