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.
Allora & Calzadilla’s Stop, Repair, Prepare is a performance piece in which a pianist tries to play a piano from a hole that has been cut in its center, while walking said piano around the gallery. The pedals have been turned backwards, and the middle keys just thud (the strings have been cut out for the hole).
Those of you in New York can see the performances at the Gladstone Gallery on 24th Street from late January through February, thanks to a set of pianists who appear to be very dedicated to playing such a difficult set-up!
update: oops, time travelers only, it was 2009 not 2010. (thanks ted)
Score for a Hole in the Ground is an installation in a forest, “near the village of Challock in Kent.” It consists of this large phonograph-like cone connected to a pipe that descends into a well. The dripping sounds from the wet environment (and nearby pond) are broadcast by the cone, producing aleatory music from the environment.
It’s a beautiful installation, and you can see more lovely pictures and hear how it sounds at the project’s web site.
(via oddstrument)
A black hole created by Israeli scientists won’t destroy Earth, but it could make our planet just a little bit less noisy. Using Bose-Einstein condensates, the scientists created a black hole for sound.
(via kottke)
