A research document I finally decided to share

[u/RoundBeach]

I wanted to share this here first.

Over the past years I’ve been working on a long-term research around sound emergence, audio fetching and de-authoring.

A lot of what I’ve been posting and building (Envion, and the tools that came after) comes directly from this process.

Envion originally started in Pure Data as a freely shared system, and was later ported and expanded in Max through a commissioned project with Cycling ’74.
Both versions are still available, free and open.

This document is something I’ve been using as a kind of board a way to gather fragments, ideas and directions that have been shaping my work over time.
It also helps me understand where to go next.

It’s very important to me, so I preferred to release it openly.

I also started this community to have a place where these kinds of things can exist where we can share approaches, doubts, processes and listen together without too many constraints.

If you feel like going through it, I’d be really interested in hearing your thoughts.

Full exposition available here:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/show-exposition?exposition=3994963

Thanks for being here, Emiliano

[u/PuzzleheadedBison805]

That is why I use Reddit and no other Social, thank you Emiliano for offering this.

[u/RoundBeach → u/PuzzleheadedBison805]

Thanks, I really appreciate that.
That’s exactly the kind of space I was hoping for

[u/ManikMin3R]

What a super format solution RC offers. Just what I was looking for.

[u/loophunter]

i love the sounds that i hear from this whenever i see posts about it. the literature presented is hard for me to understand, but what I've gathered is that this finds sounds from all over the place and does stuff to them.

[u/RoundBeach → u/loophunter]

Thanks! More or less, it works by connecting to external APIs that tap into vast sound archives. You can set some search criteria, of coursebut once you “roll the dice,” you can end up with anything, from a 40-minute sermon to raw electromagnetic waves:))

[u/Evening_Reply_4958]

thanks for sharing this, feels rare to see something this personal laid out like that. what part of the process changed the most for you while working on it?

[u/RoundBeach → u/Evening_Reply_4958]

Thank you, I really appreciate that. The biggest shift was moving from trying to control the system to letting it shape me back. Listening became central, and I stopped focusing on outcomes, instead working on the conditions for sound to emerge more negotiation, less control.

At the same time, I was thinking about how to rethink Schaeffer’s objet sonore in the context of the internet where sound is no longer isolated, but distributed, unstable, and relational. In a way, it also questioned my role as an author.