Vibrations and how they get to your ears.
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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)
The Audio Guillotine is a sculpture/installation by Benoit Maubrey, and it basically is just what the name sounds like: a guillotine for speakers. Pretty badass. (Although is that actually what a guillotine looks like? I want a big shiny blade!)
(via Califaudio)
Nathalie Miebach is a sculptor who makes “sculptural musical scores” based on weather data. If that sounds confusing, imagine how you might play the sculpture pictured above. Apparently the process goes: gather weather data, make into score that looks like this, and then make either a sculpture or music from it. She’s got a lot of pictures of her sculptures on her website.
(I like how “data” is in her list of media for the sculptures.)
I had no idea that Harry Bertoia (he of the diamond chair) was also a sculptor, and even less of an idea that he was a sound sculptor. The picture above is of one of his sculptures—imagine running your hand over the top and the metal reeds shimmering against each other. Follow the via link below to hear some sound clips (and you should really watch the video at the end of that post; the tone out of this thing is gorgeous).
(via THIS IS WEIRD VIBRATIONS)
This digital sculpture by Daniel Franke is a visual representation of Ryoji Ikeda’s “One Minute.” Pretty.
(via Synthtopia)
“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)
A lovely little photo and art project (apologies for the tumblr reblog soup below, this one is popular!):
Soundstills by Tviga Vasilyeva
The white forms in these photographs are the sculptural manifestations of audio footage that was recorded along the border between Russia and Finland. Here the unique old-growth forests stand, The Green Belt of Fennoscandia. Recently these ancient trees are being logged for their valuable timber. There are only few remaining areas of ancient forest in Europe with the vast majority of the vanishing old-growth forests remaining are in the North of European Russia.
The soundwaves are actual objects, each is 6 metres high, reminiscent of the height of a tree, despite looking like digital intervention. I recorded them when the forest was still there. Then, when the trees had gone, I put the ‘sounds’ back to where they used to exist, sounds that look like trees that will never be heard again.via ekstasis: cloois : dadatata : yayeveryday
Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai) apparently makes sculptures when he’s not making glitchy tiny electronic music. These bars are sculptural visualizations of Laurie Anderson saying “Yes” and “No.”
(via Everyday Listening)
