December 2009
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Listen Remko Scha — Machine Guitars (Shake) This set...
Dec 18th
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had the thesis-related pleasure of visiting a family friend’s player piano (an old Cable Company Euphona). We played around with the rolls, which are still being released (she had a Garth Brooks piano roll!), and my girlfriend, Christina, took video. She edited together the footage into an epilepsy-inducing frenzy, making what is probably the only Conlon...
Dec 17th
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Another sculpture from Kitty Clark (I’m really enjoying the sonic sculptures these days, it seems). This one uses eight of those dippy bird toys to complete circuits at uncontrolled intervals, resulting in some happy aleatoric bird music. [FYI, the birds tag on this blog is used surprisingly often.]
Dec 13th
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More sculptural drone awesomeness from Stephen Cornford: Extended Piano is A kinetic sound sculpture. Two guitar strings are attached to two bass strings of an upright piano. Mechanised bows play the guitar strings, whose vibrations resonate sympathetically through the whole piano. The sound is entirely acoustic. It’s a mesmerizing sculpture, and most exciting for me, it raises some...
Dec 11th
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Stephen Cornford’s “Three Piece” is a sound sculpture that spins two electric guitars and a bass around, along with their speakers, to make an environmental drone and creepy installation. (via Rhizome)
Dec 10th
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The Audio Guillotine is a sculpture/installation by Benoit Maubrey, and it basically is just what the name sounds like: a guillotine for speakers. Pretty badass. (Although is that actually what a guillotine looks like? I want a big shiny blade!) (via Califaudio)
Dec 8th
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Listen From the Heart of Glass - Madmixmustang (Phillip...
Dec 6th
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