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.
The Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab walks the length of Manhattan, playing an arrangement of Christmas carols slowed 128x and arranged for percussion by Chris Peck. Sped back up in this video, it turns into an incredible buzzy medley of xmas tunes. You have to watch it (click ahead if you get bored).
(via @aleaboy)
From Alex Ross, a more thorough (near-complete, I think?) video of the recent MakeMusicNY lake performance of Xenakis’ Persephassa, in which a percussion sextet surrounds the audience. In this case, on boats.
(via The Rest Is Noise)
“this is the beginning of steamfunk”
yes please (also, remarkably expressive) (also, nice dance there)
(via Create Digital Music)
Rui Penha’s Robotic Gamelan is part of a “robotic percussion” roundup over at Create Digital Music. (yeah, I’m still catching up on blogs from the holidays, so what?)
The mallets are really gorgeous (are they typical gamelan equipment, just fastened to mechanical actuators? I’m not familiar enough with gamelan music to know). Also amazing are basically all the other robots in the roundup, so you should click over there.
(I reserve the right to plunder that roundup for future posts, because it is so awesome.)
(via Create Digital Music)
A composition by Iannis Xenakis, Pleaides was originally commissioned for Les Percussions de Strasbourg, to premiere at the Opera du Rhin in May 1979. A sextet for percussion, it is here performed by the Yale Percussion Group.
I’ve embedded the first video of seven above. Think how nice it would be to have a little avant-garde percussion concert right now at your desk! (Click the via link below to listen to the rest.)
(via Rhizome)
