As a person who cut his teeth in early music, I’m only slowly getting acquainted with tools for working with recorded sound as a primary text of analysis. I first became aware of the great things happening in this area through the CHARM project (see the Links page) and in particular the program Sonic Visualizer they made freely available to annotate and compare multiple recordings.

In this same vein, but with an eye particularly towards electroacoustic music, we now have Eanalysis, a program that seems remarkably flexible for analysis as well as being able to generate cool visual “scores” similar to that Rainer Wehinger made for Ligeti’s landmark electronic piece “Artikulation.” If any of you end up using the program, let me know; I’d love to see what you come up with.