Posts Tagged "architecture"
99% Invisible – 236- Reverb
Dear Architects: Sound Matters
Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears
NASA – Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility
Cities Unlocked, Sound-Based System for Guiding Blind People Through Cities
Korinsky – Volum in the Berliner Dom
Alvin Lucier – I am Sitting in a Room (1981)
Sound and Cities
Dream House – La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela
Arup Sound Lab
Janette Sadik-Khan – Honk, Honk, Aaah
Stillspotting – Arvo Pärt and Snøhetta – To a Great City
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.
Reverberation and Echo – Echo Bridge, Massachusetts
Cities and Memory – Mapping the real and imagined sounds of the world
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”.
99% Invisible – Sound and Feel
Stephen Vitiello – Sounds Building In The Fading Light
This American Life – episode110 – Mapping (mapping hearing)
How architecture helped music evolve – David Byrne
Jacob Kirkegaard – 4 rooms: Gymnasium
It’s been said that many make sacrifices for their music, but, in the recording of 4 Rooms, Jacob Kirkegaard went above and beyond. Almost 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, Kirkegaard traveled into the villages surrounding Chernobyl, places largely uninhabited and still teeming with radiation, an unheard and unseen but never forgotten result of Reactor 4’s fateful meltdown in April 1986.