Vibrations and how they get to your ears.
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soundw(e)ave is a work by Christy Matson that renders audio spectrograms in Jacquard-woven cotton. I wish someone would mass-produce these so you could have personalized spectrogram blankets! (Also, I like the bit of cognitive dissonance between Jacquard and waveforms—via player pianos, Hollerith cards, digital audio, and back again)
(via Rhizome)
David Benqué’s work in progress, “Acoustic Botany,” is a set of hypothetical plants that have been genetically engineered to make sounds. So far, they’re pretty broadly conceptual, like a nut whose insides are “eaten away by bugs engineered to chew in rhythm.” The image above is “Popping Pod Fruit,” which would be engineered to contain small seed capsules that slowly fill with air over the lifetime of the plant, eventually popping in aleatoric rhythm with its neighbors.
Primarily, this seems like a very interesting way to create an opposing form of acoustic ecology. Most work in acoustic ecology is about reducing human sonic influence in nature, and protecting “natural” soundscapes. Genetic engineering (or at least the implausibly specific and sonic version Benqué describes) offers another way to get into nature’s sounds and alter the soundscape.
(via we make money not art)
“Untitled Sound Objects” looks like an interesting way to bring sound into a gallery space. Because of the minimalism of these sound generating machines (mostly little electric motors and solenoids, it looks like), they have a sculptural quality. I’m curious how this line between “sculpture that makes sound” and “instrument” is made.
Another video from the same people, with a different technique (might not be visible for you Tumblr Dashboard readers):
Gross, and awesome!
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How could I not reblog this?
John Wynne’s Sountrap IV.-A high-tech, 32 channel digital sound controller throws a pianola and a vast collection of recycled hi-fi speakers (icons of technological redundancy) into dynamic relationship in John Wynne’s new sonic sculpture.
Pianola + a mountain of hifi speakers! Installation will be until 18th october at The National Gallery in south London.
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I love these projects that visualize auditory vibrations, probably because they tend to stretch just beyond my understanding of the physics involved. The sublime!
(via Everyday Listening)
