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Fabricmachine – sound and textiles

Another instance of taking the physical or visual properties of a material and converting them to sound. FABRIC MACHINE Installation…

Posted on: February 5, 2015
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Soundweaving: Artist Converts Folk Embroidery Patterns into Paper Scores for Music Boxes

Soundweaving is a recent project by Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay that turns patterns used in traditional folk embroidery into…

Posted on: February 3, 2015
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SOUND X SOUND

from Everyday Listening: Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard is a Danish composer who, in his series SOUND X SOUND has been working…

Posted on: January 22, 2015
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British Library Says 6.5 Million Sounds Are in Jeopardy

Luke McKernan, lead curator of news and moving image, wrote in the January 12 announcement: “Archival consensus internationally is that we…

Posted on: January 22, 2015
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99% Invisible -Episode 148: The Sizzle

The first trademark for a sound in the United States was issued in 1978 to NBC for their chimes. MGM has a sound…

Posted on: January 20, 2015
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NASA – Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility

Technician examines one of the high frequency horns in the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center’s Plum…

Posted on: December 16, 2014
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Virtual haircut

Ok besides the incredibly campy delivery in this demonstration, it is a great example of the power of stereo imaging…

Posted on: December 16, 2014
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Failure on the Millennium falcon – sound design

Posted on: December 13, 2014
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The Field Recordist – Film

Lawrence Barker has finished his audiovisual autobiography, The Field Recordist. This film is a personal reflection of my own passion for…

Posted on: December 12, 2014
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Stephanie Loveless – Cricket, Tree, Crow

From Stephanie Lawless' website Cricket, Tree, Crow is a quadraphonic sound piece in three movements that investigates the voices of…

Posted on: December 10, 2014
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Cities Unlocked, Sound-Based System for Guiding Blind People Through Cities

On a typical day, Jennifer Bottom makes her way around London with her guide dog in tow. Sometimes, “I just…

Posted on: December 8, 2014
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Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening

Check out the list of types of listening. "Learning how to listen is particularly relevant to understanding the lives of…

Posted on: December 8, 2014
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A Beginner’s Guide To…Field Recording

The history of field recording is central to the development of electronic music, with artists – from Eno through Scanner…

Posted on: December 8, 2014
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This Man Can Hear Wi-Fi

Writer Frank Swain has been able to hear Wi-Fi signals for the past week, and no, it's not “the result…

Posted on: December 8, 2014
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Extracting audio from visual information

Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass. Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe…

Posted on: December 7, 2014
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ALMA Music Box: melody of a Dying Star

http://alma.mtk.nao.ac.jp/musicbox/ ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is a state-of-the-art radio telescope developed and operated by 20 countries and territories in…

Posted on: December 7, 2014
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How Speakers work – Animagraffs

Speakers (also called loudspeakers) push and pull surrounding air molecules in waves that the human ear interprets as sound. You…

Posted on: December 7, 2014
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Scientists Use Sound Waves To Levitate And Manipulate Matter

A team of researchers in Switzerland have developed a way of levitating and transporting small objects using nothing but sound.…

Posted on: December 7, 2014
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How hacking the sounds in your head could be the key to happiness

"Putting a spring back into your step could be as simple as listening to the sound of lighter footsteps, new…

Posted on: December 5, 2014
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Furniture Music – Brian Eno

Brian Eno is known as many things: a recording artist, a music producer, and a visual artist to name a…

Posted on: December 3, 2014
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Furniture Music – Erik Satie

[et_pb_section bb_built="1"][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.21.4" z_index_tablet="500"] In the midst of an art opening at a Paris gallery in 1902, Ambient music…

Posted on: December 3, 2014
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Korinsky – Volum in the Berliner Dom

from Everyday Listening: Korinsky is a Berlin-based art collective using technologies and the knowledge about human hearing processes to create…

Posted on: November 29, 2014
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Konrad Smolenski – Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2013 The work at the Polish Pavilion is a sculptural instrument that reproduces, at…

Posted on: November 29, 2014
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Doron Sadja “I Am Immensely In Touch With My Emotions And Music Is Magic To Me”

Using motorized swinging speakers, multichannel sound, and high intensity smoke and light projections, Sadja transforms this expansive industrial space into…

Posted on: November 26, 2014
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Susan Hiller – Witness 2000

Witness 2000. Each speaker in the installation Witness 2000 transmits a voice telling a story. A wide variety of languages…

Posted on: November 23, 2014
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Patrick Feaster – Pictures of Sound

Another great resource related to sonification: This video is derived from a slideshow that was presented by Patrick Feaster at…

Posted on: November 20, 2014
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Sergei Tcherepnin’s Music for One – Massage Performance

Sergei Tcherepnin created a work for a single listener that involves a sort of sonic massage. from the New York…

Posted on: November 20, 2014
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David Tudor – Rainforest IV

Here's an example of tactile or surface transducers in action. David Tudor (1973) -- Rainforest IV: collective performance The fourth…

Posted on: November 20, 2014
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Pierre Sauvageot’s Harmonic Fields

Sauvageot describes his creation as "a symphonic march for 1,000 aeolian instruments and moving audience". It is not only a…

Posted on: November 20, 2014
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Tactile Transducers

Also known as Surface Transducers and other things... https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10975 "Surface transducers give you the awesome power to turn almost any…

Posted on: November 19, 2014
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Songs of War – Music as Torture

Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an…

Posted on: November 19, 2014
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5 Bizarre Ways You Won’t Believe Sound Screws With Your Body

Science has been messing with light like a middle-school bully since forever: shoving it all together to make a laser…

Posted on: November 16, 2014
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Alvin Lucier – I am Sitting in a Room (1981)

The first recording of I am sitting in a room was made at the Electronic Music Studio at Brandeis University…

Posted on: November 12, 2014
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William Basinski – Cascade – repetition is change

Brian Eno once said that “repetition is a form of change,” but Basinski’s tape loops physically revise that and bring…

Posted on: November 8, 2014
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Sway – Caitlin Morris

Sway is a space where sound and physical form meet. The environment reflects the palpable experience of listening to music,…

Posted on: November 7, 2014
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In The Garden of Sonic Delights – videos

You Are the Sweet Spot by Stephen Vitiello & Bob Bielecki http://youtu.be/BXbP6vRPMQc Listening Is as Listening Does by Suzanne Thorpe…

Posted on: November 5, 2014
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In The Garden of Sonic Delights – NY Times

Posted on: November 5, 2014
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Max Neuhaus – Times Square

From Gothamist: Visit The Eerie Circa-1970s Sound Installation In Times Square The late Max Neuhaus, a percussionist known for creating…

Posted on: November 2, 2014
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Earthquake Sound of the Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake (Zhigang Peng)

This webpage contains earthquake "sounds" created from seismic recordings around the world generated by the 2011/03/11 Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake.…

Posted on: October 29, 2014
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Listen to the stars – Wanda L. Diaz Merce

"In the spring of 2011, Wanda L. Diaz Merced spent time at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, doing research for…

Posted on: October 29, 2014
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