October 2011
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The new aesthetic, structural impressionism and...
I remember the first time I saw Soundcloud, the website that lets you share and listen to audio. Nice service, I thought, but is putting the waveform at the centre of things really sensible? Isn’t it too nerdy?
To me, as someone who has spent his fair share of time inside audio editing programs, it just felt as if the waveform was too far from ordinary people’s experiences of sound...