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July 27, 1999. Continuation of a conversation with audio engineer Scott Fahy on a variety of subjects including hearing disabilities and compensatory techniques.
July 23, 1999. A special set of links to people who presented their work at a day long visual music gathering at Dennis Keefe's video facility in Alameda, California on July 11, 1999. This was an exceptional event signaling a sea change in the visual music movement.
July 21, 1999. Playing Free of the Box, my response to some remarks by Stephen Malinowski in reference to issues that surfaced by way of my participation in a day long gathering of music visualizers on July 11, 1999.
July 13, 1999. An email response and exchange with audio engineer Scott Fahy on a variety of subjects including hearing disabilities and compensatory techniques.
July 12, 1999. An email message that provides a common sense rule for protecting hearing and suggestions for educating employees about the perils of noise.
July 10, 1999. Quest for Audio Excellence Audio Report 10. Good sound from Les Brown & His Band of Renown.
July 8, 1999. A short message from an audio engineer agreeing with the premise of my piece An Audio Horror Story: Testing and Tuning a Soundspace.
July 2, 1999. A message to a new nightclub owner about what's required for keeping loud music in the nightclub. Plus a reply from David Scheirman to my countering audio feedback squeals message.
June 1, 1999. The inclusion of a Titles List to make it easier to access information in the Quest for Audio Excellence section of the website.
May 31, 1999. The inclusion of a Titles List to make it easier to access information in the Visual Music section of the website.
May 29, 1999. The inclusion of a Titles List to make it easier to access information in the Compositional Thinking section of the website.
May 26, 1999. Quiet in Classrooms, a post to the quiet-list@igc.org.
May 24, 1999. A message about countering audio feedback squeals to David Scheirman, a leading light in the audio world.
May 21, 1999. A post to the acoustic-ecology@sfu.ca list on the subject of poisonous sound.
May 20, 1999. "Noise and the ability to concentrate", a post to the quiet-list@igc.org.
May 16, 1999. Principles for Learning to Compose with Sound and Light, an extension of the essay on Discovering, Cultivating, and Using Your Own Voice.
April 30, 1999. Clarification of the language (the thinking) used in considering the notions of silence and quiet in a post to quiet-list@igc.org and acoustic-ecology@sfu.ca.
April 28, 1999. Four new visual music sites covering dynamic media, colour music, video, and MIDI-to-animated imagery.
April 1, 1999. Quest for Audio Excellence Audio Report 9. An article on the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra´s unnecessary and excessive use of electronic sound reinforcement with the music of Duke Ellington.
December 8, 1998. A new section devoted to Academic Visual Music Sites.
December 2, 1998. An additional set of visual music site links.
October 29, 1998. A link to Laurie Spiegel's essay - Graphical Groove: Memorium for a Visual Music System. She discusses her work with VAMPIRE (Video And Music Program for Interactive Realtime Exploration/Experimentation) as well as her approach to developing intelligent instruments and compositional algorithms.
October 26, 1998. The first installment of an extended essay on Compositional Algorithms As Cyberspirit Attractors.
October 12, 1998. A short statement on the Levels of Algorithmic Composition written in response to an email message.
October 8, 1998. The site of Laurie Spiegel, composer and creator of Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument with a simple yet powerful visual interface for making music.
September 25, 1998. Another music visualizer site with a special twist - a dancing robot.
September 22, 1998. Quest for Audio Excellence Audio Report 8. A review of a fine job done by San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts house staff of Cedric Lathan, Audio Engineer/Technician, and James Jones, his assistant, on a performance by Zakir Hussain, tabla and percussion maestro.
September 16, 1998. Some thoughts on Why the world should care about sonification.
September 11, 1998. Conversation with sound engineer Scott Dunn.
September 3, 1998. Conversation with audio engineer Eric Madson.
September 2, 1998. Conversations with audio engineer Dave Stevens.
September 1, 1998. Conversation with a 19 year old "Mixwiz"
August 30, 1998. David Scheirman's (a longtime professional audio engineer) response to Why Are Audio Engineers the Enemies of Our Ears. An excellent summary of Pellegrino's essay and the responses to it.
August 30, 1998. Conversations with Chip Self, audio engineer and President of Logic Systems Sound and Lighting, inc. Because of HTML limitations on file size, this exchange comes in two parts: A and B.
August 30, 1998. A new subsection of the Quest for Audio Excellence called Conversations With Audio Engineers. It contains dialogues in the form of email exchanges between Pellegrino and audio engineers who've responded to audio issues posted on Pellegrino's site. For anyone interested in the fundamentals of quality issues in the audio scene of the late 1990s, the dialogues should provide a rare source of firsthand information in a field that suffers from an exceedingly short supply of oversight, criticism, and reflection. The exchanges also provide an unusual window onto the demands of working audio engineers.
August 6, 1998. A recommendation for composers of sonic and visual music to study a book by the Swiss physicist Han Jenny, Cymatics.
July 24, 1998. Two additions to Noise and Sound Pollution: Issues and Principles. Doubting The Decibel Scale and Noise Sensitivity and Age.
June 29, 1998. A strong recommendation for composers of sonic and visual music to study a book by Hazrat Inayat Khan, THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND AND MUSIC.
April 27, 1998. A new section to the site: Noise and Sound Pollution: Issues and Principles. This section is dedicated to providing fundamental information about issues related to sound, hearing, and noise. It consists of essays and letters as well as email exchanges written in response to noise and sound pollution issues raised in discussions of the quiet-list and the acoustic-ecology list.
April 7, 1998. An email response and exchange with an audio engineer on the subject of tuning a soundspace.
April 4, 1998. A collection of email messages from audio engineers responding to two of the essays in Quest for Audio Excellence.
Responding to Why Are Audio Engineers the Enemies of Our Ears?
- a "house engineer" discusses his experiences with deaf engineers who travel with acts,
- a studio engineer talks about his past experience with lead band managers trying to make opening acts sound worse by lowering their levels and cranking up that of the lead band, and
- a composer/producer talks about his use of hearing protection for 25 years to avoid going deaf from recording sessions.
Responding to An Audio Horror Story: Testing and Tuning a Soundspace an audio engineer comments on engineers working the university scene and the "standard" procedure for tuning a soundspace.
March 18, 1998. An email that's representative of responses to my essay on Why Are Audio Engineers the Enemies of Our Ears? from audio folks who refuse to face the issues that undermine the field and prefer to vent out of hubristic rage.
March 8, 1998. Quest for Audio Excellence Audio Report 7. A review of a great job done by Jay Cloidt and the Kronos Quartet audio team on their concert at Theater Artaud in San Francisco.
March 5, 1998. An email message on Searching for a Balance of Sound and Silence originally posted to the quiet-list forum.
March 3, 1998. An email response from an audio engineer concerned about excessive sound levels in clubs and the necessity for patrons to use prophylactics in their ears.
February 26, 1998. An email response from a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation audio engineer to an earlier essay, Why Are Audio Engineers the Enemies of Our Ears?
February 20, 1998. Quest for Audio Excellence Audio Report 6. A review of the fine job done by David Robinson, audio engineer on tour with The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra performing in UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall.
February 19, 1998. An essay based on a gut-wrenching experience I had as a visiting multimedia artist recently with a soundspace that had been tuned mechanically by an audio technician applying a formula he maintained was an industry standard - An Audio Horror Story: Testing and Tuning a Soundspace.
February 2, 1998. Information on Audio Fidelity, Hearing, and our Educational System taken from some World Forum for Acoustic Ecology exchanges. A performance-multimedia link.
January 24, 1998. Two new visual music sites and a further tuning of the site.
December 3, 1997. An essay on Perceptual Expectations, Immersive Sound Environments, and Recording.
November 27, 1997. A description of the system and process used to create Animated Laser Visual Music Meditations, a recently completed set of performance-multimedia pieces.
November 19, 1997. Responding voices to an earlier essay, Why Are Audio Engineers the Enemies of Our Ears?
October 13, 1997. Coming Events for Pellegrino's 1997-98 performance season.
June 22, 1997. More email messages on Loud Music & Hearing Loss posted on the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology in response to a continuing discussion of the subject.
May 29, 1997. More Taoist magic figures.
May 27, 1997. An extensive set of excerpts from my book on The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light that cover the subjects of performance multimedia, visual music, and real-time composition.
May 18, 1997. An email message (plus additional material) on Loud Music & Hearing Loss posted on the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology in response to a continuing discussion of the subject.
May 10, 1997. The first public tilt in my Quest for Audio Excellence - a letter written in 1993 to UC-Berkeley's Cal Performances in an effort to raise their audio consciousness. Cal Performance's response my Audio Prayer.
May 6, 1997. A list of Visual Music Flavors with descriptions that provide insight into the variety of approaches to visual music.
April 27, 1997. A more fully fleshed out version of the Online Visual Music Forum.
April 25, 1997. An email message to MIMI and the Illuminati: Ralph Abraham & Peter Broadwell & Ami Radunskaya, "three mathematician-artists who collaborate in an erodynamic exhibition of sound and light, in which mathematical models and physical systems are explored, traveling from predictable trajectories through the edge of chaos and beyond." The message is included on this site because it deals with the subjects of visual music and performance multimedia.
April 22, 1997. More links to sites of music visualizers.
April 5, 1997. Your Own Voice Examples, a photo tour with descriptions illustrating some of the principles laid out in the March 5, 1997 essay on Discovering, Cultivating, and Using Your Own Voice.
April 2, 1997. A new wing to the site called Links to Electronic Arts Sites and Related Sites.
April 1, 1997. A new wing to the site called Multimedia Performance Events and Residencies.
March 5, 1997. An essay on Discovering, Cultivating, and Using Your Own Voice. The principles apply to any creative work, including music composition.
March 5, 1997. Some additional Taoist magic figures.
January 25, 1997. An essay on The Effects of Sound/Music on the Human Digestive System.
January 15, 1997. More links to sites of music visualizers.
January 14, 1997. A history of Pellegrino's involvement with visual music; written in response to email inquiries.
December 6, 1996. More links to sites of music visualizers. Check out Pixound for a special treat.
November 15, 1996. An essay on Patterns in Nature: Rhythms of Life. Explores the foundations of Pellegrino's compositional thinking.

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