Noise for Airports

Vibrations and how they get to your ears.

Noise for airports is a blog about culture, sound, music, and technology.

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A 1933 video about “Sound Waves and Their Sources,” covering the fundamentals of sound as vibration. How I wish I had this video for my class last week!

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Jul 21 · 16 notes

Herbie Hancock shows off his Fairlight CMI to a gaggle of children including Tatyana Ali.

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Jul 19 · 3 notes
Raga Explorer is a strange little program that lets you generate your own ragas by picking a type of rhythm, time of day, and clicking around on a spinning mandala/spirograph thing (see pic above). Not sure how the control scheme is supposed to work, and it all sounds a little MIDI-y, but this kind of tool might be a great way to introduce non-standard music to people by allowing them to explore its parameters.

Raga Explorer is a strange little program that lets you generate your own ragas by picking a type of rhythm, time of day, and clicking around on a spinning mandala/spirograph thing (see pic above). Not sure how the control scheme is supposed to work, and it all sounds a little MIDI-y, but this kind of tool might be a great way to introduce non-standard music to people by allowing them to explore its parameters.

Jul 3