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.
From he of the guitar-playing finches:
In Harmonichaos, which was on view at Paula Cooper Gallery until this weekend, [Céleste] Boursier-Mougenot affixes the grooves of harmonicas to the mouths of vacuum cleaners, and the staggered grid of thirteen pairs produces an undulating, reedy drone.
Like Pauline Oliveros meets Jeff Koons.
[I’ve been MIA from the blog so I can get some work done on my thesis. I’ll try to pop in occasionally to post some little things like this, but it will sadly be sparse for a while.]
(via Rhizome)
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 interesting questions about what constitutes a piano: Can you have a piano without any keys or hammers? If you bow it, is it still a piano?
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)
“It’s the principle of simplicity, and the most basic thing is one note. Long tones give you a pure sound; long tones give you discipline. It’s meditation, and it connects you to the universe. Because you’re putting your sound right out there in the ether.”
Hypnotized: The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (via S-FJ)
