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Microsound




These sounds include transient audio phenomena and are known in Acoustics and Signal Processing by various names including sound particles, acoustic quantum, sonal atom, grain, glisson, grainlet, trainlet, microarc, wavelet, chirplet, FOF, time-frequency atom, pulsar, impulse, toneburst, tone pip, acoustic pixel, and others. In the frequency domain they may be named kernel, logon, and frame, among others. (ibid)

Physicist Dennis Gabor was an important pioneer in microsound. (ibid) Micromontage is Musical Montage with microsound.


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SOURCE

  • Roads, Curtis (2001). ''Microsound''. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0262182157.