Vibrations and how they get to your ears.
Noise for airports is a blog about culture, sound, music, and technology.
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Updated (sometimes) by Nick Seaver.
Dick Whyte’s reconstruction of 4’33”, stitching together YouTube performances of the piece.
(Source: rhizome.org)
Apologies for the unannounced (and nearly month-long, yeesh) hiatus. Finding housing and moving across the country is time-consuming!
Back soon, with more goodies.
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“Whatever weird instrument your great-grandson will be playing, the Sony TC-377 will capture it.” From National Geographic, April 1973.
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Untitled (for William Tager) (2006) - Dave Dyment
A radio for every available frequency in a given space, all tuned to their lowest possible volume.
Beautiful concept, though the Tager reference is a little morbid.
(via Rhizome)
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 contention in the video that recorded sounds are not “real,” although I think I understand the sentiment behind it. Sounds played back from a speaker are certainly different from those sounds as captured by a microphone, but imagining the recording device as some kind of sonic hatchet, chopping wild sounds from their sources and letting them loose, seems an oversimplification.
(via Anti-Gravity Bunny)
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 gets exported and combined with the video.
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“Playing Guitar With Power Tools.”
(via Music of Sound
