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.
“Playing Guitar With Power Tools.”
(via Music of Sound
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!
(via fieldmic)
This digital guitar runs on Linux and has a touch screen interface. How cool is that? What is it exactly? The Misa Digital Guitar is a pressure-sensitive touchscreen MIDI controller that’s been built into a guitar body.
Very interesting. Guitar Hero made real? I like that the neck fights the “obvious” idea that a guitar with buttons can’t be anything like an actual guitar, when really what people who say that mean is “a guitar with only five buttons can’t be like an actual guitar.”
I’m curious how the mapping works from the touch screen to MIDI.
(via technabob)
“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!
(via swissmiss)
Surprise! Lady Gaga on the blog!
Well, really, this one is about her piano: a bubble-filled lucite upright. I don’t really have anything to say about it other than that it looks sort of ridiculous/awesome at the same time.
(And is, of course, an upright in shape only.)
