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.
I’m not a sports enthusiast in any sense, but I had to post something about the vuvuzela. Here it is, if you didn’t know already. (And here is an interesting idea for equalizing it out of your TV, if you hate raucous, celebratory noise-making.)
(via immanent discursivity)
update: And a bafflingly thorough roundup of vuvuzela/filtering-related links over at Create Digital Music.
This interactive data sonification feature from the New York Times is fantastic. It is a perfect case for the usefulness of sonification: hearing the close finishes of the Olympic races really gives you a better sense of just how close they are, even compared to watching them!
Beep baseball, where the balls and bases beep.
What a neat technological solution. Looks like it would be fun for sighted people as well!
(via Kottke)
