{"id":1376,"date":"2018-09-25T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=1376"},"modified":"2020-07-28T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:22:54","slug":"about-tom-erbe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/","title":{"rendered":"About &#8211; Tom Erbe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tom_erbe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1377\" src=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tom_erbe-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"tom_erbe\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tom_erbe-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tom_erbe.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Tom Erbe is\u00a0deeply involved and dedicated to\u00a0electronic and computer music research, and creation. He\u00a0creates computer music software and hardware, most notably the sound processing application <strong>SoundHack<\/strong>, the many\u00a0<strong>soundhack<\/strong> plugins, and several ground-breaking synthesis modules developed with\u00a0<strong>Make Noise Music<\/strong>. Tom Erbe has\u00a0performed, and collaborated on, electronic music pieces by Alvin Lucier, John Cage, James Tenney, Maryanne Amacher, Larry Polansky, Alvin Curran, Robert Ashley, Clipping, and others. As a recording engineer, Tom Erbe has produced over <a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/?page_id=7\">100 CDs of contemporary music<\/a>, including the restoration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newworldrecords.org\/album.cgi?rm=view&amp;album_id=80570\">James Tenney&#8217;s early computer music<\/a>, recording of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgerecords.com\/search?q=feldman\">Bridge Records&#8217; Morton Feldman<\/a> series, compilation of\u00a0the Lyrachord series of contemporary Indonesian music, and production of over 20 years of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/loi\/lmj\">Leonardo Music Journal<\/a>&#8216;s annual compilation of experimental music.<\/p>\n<h2>Notable Work<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mathews84Violin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1384\" src=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mathews84Violin.png\" alt=\"Mathews84Violin\" width=\"247\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>Developed (with Andy Voelkel) a real-time pitch detector and performance system for Max Mathews&#8217; electronic violin for J\u00e1nos N\u00e9gysey (1986)<\/li>\n<li>Developed the first CD quality (16-bit) audio interface for the Macintosh with Micro Technology Unlimited. (1987)<\/li>\n<li>Performed electronics and &#8220;rhythm orchestra&#8221; on Robert Ashley&#8217;s ground-breaking opera\u00a0<em>Improvement.\u00a0<\/em>(1989)<\/li>\n<li>Created\u00a0<strong>SoundHack<\/strong>, a spectral sound processing application for the Macintosh, <a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/matrix4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1389 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/matrix4.jpg\" alt=\"matrix4\" width=\"124\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>one of the first freeware computer music programs, and winner of first prize at the first\u00a0Concours de Logiciels Musicaux at the IMEB Festival in Bourges. SoundHack is used extensively for the sound design for\u00a0<em>The Matrix<\/em>, which wins the Academy Award in sound design.\u00a0This software is still widely used today. (1991)<\/li>\n<li>Developed and built the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20000065625\">NASA Ames Auditory Display Processor<\/a><\/strong>, a four-channel binaural processor designed to improve communication intelligibility for NASA launch and mission control. (1992)<\/li>\n<li>Designed and supervised the installation of the <strong>Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio<\/strong> at California Institute of the Arts. (1998)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delaykit911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1385 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delaykit911-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"delaykit911\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delaykit911-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delaykit911-500x288.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delaykit911.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Developed 17 sound processing plugins to use in all areas of sound design.<br \/>\nThese include\u00a0<strong>Spectral Shapers<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>freesound<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>delay trio<\/strong>, and <strong>Pvoc Kit<\/strong><i>. (1999 &#8211; 2018)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Audio archivist for the <strong>David Tudor archive<\/strong> at the Getty Research Institute. Reformatted over 300 tapes of David Tudor&#8217;s electronic music, as well as related material from the <strong>Experiments in Arts and Technology (EAT)<\/strong>. (2000-2002)<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned and supervised installation of all studio and concert-hall audio electronics for the <strong>Conrad Prebys Music Center<\/strong> at UC San Diego. (2008)<\/li>\n<li>Recreated and performed <strong>John Cage&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Williams Mix<\/strong>.<\/em> This was the first and only new interpretation of Cage&#8217;s pioneering work since Cage and friends assembled\u00a0the piece in 1952. A separate realization\u00a0was created for noise hip-hop band <strong>Clipping<\/strong>. (2012-14)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C2kLHctUUAA1Wkz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1387 \" src=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C2kLHctUUAA1Wkz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"C2kLHctUUAA1Wkz\" width=\"214\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C2kLHctUUAA1Wkz-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C2kLHctUUAA1Wkz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C2kLHctUUAA1Wkz-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wp7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C2kLHctUUAA1Wkz.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Created several synthesis modules in collaboration with Make Noise Music.<br \/>\nThese include: <strong>Echophon<\/strong>, <strong>Telharmonic<\/strong>, <strong>Erbe-Verb<\/strong> and <strong>Morphagene<\/strong>. Echophon\u00a0won the Electronic Musician Editors Choice award in 2013, and Erbe-Verb won the\u00a0Electronic Musician Editors Choice award in 2015. (2012-2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Erbe is\u00a0deeply involved and dedicated to\u00a0electronic and computer music research, and creation. He\u00a0creates computer music software and hardware, most notably the sound processing application SoundHack, the many\u00a0soundhack plugins, and several ground-breaking synthesis modules developed with\u00a0Make Noise Music. 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