Working with Flamenco Sounds
I’ve always loved flamenco - I think the style matches my temper and moods better than any other music styles I know of. I’ve never had a go at the guitar, but I’ve been dancing for a while now, enough to dare call myself a bailaora, and I’m slowly getting into singing as well. Recently, flamenco has also entered my work interests. A couple of colleagues of mine - Antti Jylhä and Cumhur Erkut - have developed a hand-clapping based interface, that will be presented at CHI2009: "A Hand Clap Interface for Sonic Interaction with the Computer". Recently, I’ve been working together with them on an extension of that work, contributing among other with insights from flamenco. The first part of this work "Exploring self-induced sonic interactions in the context of performing arts" is being presented at the Workshop on Sonic Interaction Design and its relation to Film and Theatre sound design, at the University of York, 2. April 2009.
I was actually searching for info on similar projects, but instead ran across this very well written piece by David Rubin on creating flamenco sounds for your audio project: desktop flamenco. It’s a valuable read for anyone who works on a piece in need for some authentic-sounding Flamenco, as it covers the major principles of the flamenco style, and provides reviews of a bunch of sample libraries containing flamenco effects. Nice work bringing all that info together on one page!
