Posts by: John Roach
Noise A Human History
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Sound and the Weather – Sonification
Nicolas Collins – Handmade Electronic Music
Worshipping the glitch – Milan Knizak & Christian Marclay
Stillspotting – Arvo Pärt and Snøhetta – To a Great City
[In the early 1960s] I was noticing that things didn’t sound the same when you heard them more than once. And the more you heard them, the more different they did sound. Even though something was staying the same, it was changing. I became fascinated with that […] In those days the first psychedelic experiences…
Vox Humana: Alfred Wolfsohn’s Experiments in Extension of Human Vocal Range
Henri Chopin – Throat Power
Tommy Settlers and His Blues Moaner – ” Shaking Weed Blues “
Christof Migone
Pierre Henry – Variations for a door and a sigh (1963)
The idea of “sculpting” sound is a critical aspect Henry’s “approach” to composition. In 1981, Henry himself said, “The origin of this music is also found in the interest in ‘plastifying’ music, of rendering it plastic like sculpture.”
Steve Reich – Come Out
Zoom H1 recorder tutorial
Tips and tutorials for the Zoom H1 and H1n recorders
I tried to stay absolutely still for as long as possible, to see if I could hear anything at all. I listened and listened. I held my breath and listened again. I had a queer feeling that the whole wood was listening with me, the trees and the bushes, the little animals hiding in the…
Absorption and Reflection
Sound is made of waves that travel out (or propagate) from their source until they dissipate, bounce off a surface or are absorbed into a surface or substance.
Akio Suzuki – Rocks and Bottle
Reverberation and Echo – Echo Bridge, Massachusetts
Stalactite Organ
Sound Tourism for Travellers
A Recording Project Exploring the Physical Sounds of Cloud Computing
The first sound art installation?
Noisy Predators Put Plants on Alert, Study Finds
Cities and Memory – Mapping the real and imagined sounds of the world
Bird Language
Liminal – The Organ of Corti
Organ of Corti is an experimental instrument that recycles noise from the environment. It does not make any sound of its own, but rather it attempts to draw our attention to the sounds already present by framing them in a new way. Named after the organ of hearing in the inner ear, it uses the acoustic technology of sonic crystals to accentuate and attenuate frequencies within the broad range of sound present in road traffic or falling water. By recycling surplus sounds from our environment, we hope to challenge expectations of what might constitute a piece of music by adding nothing to the existing soundscape but rather offering new ways of listening to what is already there. This instrument is a device that, for us, rematerializes our experience of sound, inviting us to “listen to ourselves listen”.
Anechoic – By Show Studio
Luigi Russolo – Intonarumori
The Intonarumori were a family musical instruments invented in 1913 by italian futurist painter and musical composer Luigi Russolo. They were acoustic noise generators that permitted to create and control in dynamic and pitch several different types of noise.
Chris Watson – Whispering in the Leaves
John Hastings – Hum 789
Audacity Tutorial – Adding audio files to a project
Audacity Video Tutorial – Editing
Vladan Radovanović – Voice From The Loudspeaker
Language Removal Services
Anton Bruhin – INOUT
Un Drame Musical Instantané – Zob Sessions
Oiseaux 1 – Old Record
