July 2010
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Jul 29th
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This is a nice and arty short video about R. Murray Schafer and his views on the soundscape. At the end, there is a very nice touch when Schafer holds up a sign that says “Listen.” and the audio fades out so you can listen to your own environmental sounds. (The effect is changed a bit if you’re wearing noise-canceling headphones like I was.) I (obviously?) disagree with his...
Jul 28th
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Andrew Spitz documents an attempt at time-lapse phonography over at his blog. I wrote a program in Max/MSP to automize the whole process. Every 144 seconds, the software capture one frame from the webcam and a 100ms slice of sound, with a 5ms fade in and out to attempt ironing out the non-zero crossing clicks. Each new sound slice gets appended into a buffer containing the other sounds, which then...
Jul 28th
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“Playing Guitar With Power Tools.” (via Music of Sound
Jul 27th
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ListenFor those of you who saw Inception, an experiment...
Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 22nd
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“Before the New York Philharmonic presented its first concert of the season in...”
– (via NYTimes)
Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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“Heavy decibels are playing on my guitar We got vibrations coming up from the...”
– AC/DC’s “Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution,” in observance of World Listening Day. I very much enjoy how the song seems to be a direct rebuttal of R. Murray Schafer’s list of noise types in his Book of Noise: Noise has a variety of meanings and shadings of meaning,...
Jul 18th
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ListenCory Arcangel’s “Iron Maiden’s...
Jul 18th
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Jul 18th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 16th
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I blogged Niklas Roy’s Binary Beat a while ago (although I can’t find it anymore), but that video has been making the rounds again recently, so I thought I’d elaborate with another of his experiments: ternary music! Counting in base 3 instead of base 2, this rhythm is much jerkier, but kind of awesomer?
Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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Have fun experimenting with sound! →
A fun looping app for Mac and Windows from the MIT Media lab: (via educationalrap)
Jul 13th
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Jul 11th
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From zedequalszee: Nomadic Sound Systems: Think marching band, but with bass, mid and treble speakers instead of instruments. Instant dynamic site-specific music piece! These remind me of Russolo’s intonarumori (substituting speakers for various mechanical contraptions), but even more of this line from Sousa’s “The Menace of Mechanical Music”: Shall we not expect that...
Jul 10th
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From Alex Ross, a more thorough (near-complete, I think?) video of the recent MakeMusicNY lake performance of Xenakis’ Persephassa, in which a percussion sextet surrounds the audience. In this case, on boats. (via The Rest Is Noise)
Jul 1st
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