http://francois.baschet.free.fr/
Literal:
As the title implies ‘Sculpture Sonores’ is the name given to a large collection of original instruments by the French inventors Francois and Bernard Baschet, who from 1952 pioneered for nearly 50 years a completely new way of combining sculpture and sound. Some small, some over 20 feet high and incorporating glass rods, metal cones, wires’, plastic inflatable resonators, and many other devices, these fascinating structures are not only cosmetically entracing, but produce an incredible range of sounds and varied sonic textures.
Some, such as the recent ‘Cristal’ have evolved into extremely sophisticated fully chromatic musical instruments that are just as practical to use as their traditional counterparts, and are regularly used for performances of anything from Bach to Jazz, and a massive range of contemporary music.
http://www.liveatc.net/
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This site was launched as a resource for those who enjoy listening to live Air Traffic Control (ATC)…aviation enthusiasts, student pilots, student air traffic controllers, flight simulation enthusiasts, FBO operators, airline operators, and anyone with an interest in aviation communications.
LiveATC.net is a growing site geared to providing you with a sampling of live ATC radio traffic from around the world. We are always looking for volunteers to put new locations on the air (see the Help Wanted section). We concentrate on providing ATC audio streams with high sound quality using MP3 streaming audio technology.
LiveATC.Net was the first site to provide both live and recorded ATC audio transmissions with instant archive retrieval.
Music is a Better Noise brings together musicians who make art and artists who make music, or for whom music is an integral part of their creative process with::
Thurston Moore,
Kim Gordon,
Barbara Ess,
Alan Vega,
Kai Althoff,
Jutta Koether
The exhibition, featured in two parts in P.S.1’s first floor Drawing and Painting Galleries, also includes a video program in the Vault. The title of the exhibition is taken from a 1979 song by the English post-punk group Essential Logic, led by teenage saxophonist Lora Logic. Music is a Better Noise is on view from October 29, 2006 through January 8, 2007.
http://www.soundextensionproject.com/
What is it?
The Sound Extension Project is a portfolio of electro-acoustic compositions weaving music, sound animation and drama into a stimulating surround-sound listening experience.
Why Extension?
The compositions are primarily an extending of natural sound. Through digital animation familiar sounds take on new and often very human expression: tiny water drops turn into huge gestures, rivers and ice transform into magical water creatures, trees begin to groan, sing and even walk around the room!
A Film Without The Picture…And More!
Owing to its combining of music, drama and sound acoustics The Sound Extension project is like a film without a picture, and more! Conventional cinema films have visuals holding concentration on events in front of you, surround sound is used as an addition to the front-focused picture narrative. The Sound Extension Project uses an additional 3 speakers for playback (8.1 as opposed to cinema 5.1 sound) and has no visual when playing, much more emphasis is given to side and rear sound placement. All directions are equal, the sound is the movie, your imagination the screen. Sounds heard will create worlds, stories and pictures in your mind that either would cost millions of pounds to visually create or simply would not be possible!
Sounds
http://myspace.com/unsilentnight
http://laughingsquid.com/video-of-unsilent-night-san-francisco-2006/
Flickr Pics
Every year since 1992 I’ve presented Unsilent Night, an outdoor ambient music piece for an INFINITE number of boombox tape players. It’s like a Christmas caroling party except that we don’t sing, but rather carry boomboxes, each playing a separate tape which is a “voice” in the piece. In effect, we become a city block long stereo system!
In 2006 the New York event will happen on Saturday, December 16th. We will meet at the Arch in Washington Square Park at 6:45 pm, begin at 7 pm and proceed eastward to Tompkins Square Park, where the piece will end around 8 o’clock. [more...]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/thesis/index.html
Literal:
Ambient Addition is a Walkman with binaural microphones. A tiny Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip analyzes the microphone’s sound and superimposes a layer of harmony and rhythm on top of the listener’s world. In the new context, some surprising behaviors take place. Listeners tend to play with objects around them, sing to themselves, and wander toward tempting sound sources. With Ambient Addition, I’m hoping to make people think twice about the sounds they initiate as well as loosen up some inhibitions.
Thesis text, final (.pdf)
Video (.mov)
Hemos instalado un plugin de David Harper que permite navegar en este lugar con una Wii. Este plugin detectará automáticamente la consola y aplicará al theme los colores soportados por el interface de Wii y el tamaño de fuentes adecuado para televisiones (con Opera, que es el navegador que utiliza esta consola).
Gracias a Anieto2k.com
d?rkb?t t?ky?, es decir: DorkBot Tokyo
Hace unos días estuve en una conferencia de David Cuartielles, dentro de las actividades de un Congreso de Arte y Tecnología, Pontevedra, (en Alg-a acabamos de publicar una entrevista). Hasta ese día no entendía bien el concepto de Dorkbot, algo que hemos convertido muchos en nuestro día a día (no el Dorkbot, sino el trasteo con tecnologías, hacks, transformaciones y ensayos pre-científicos), pero ese día, el de la conferencia, lo entendí perfectamente: un dorkbot es un evento de ocio digital, un claro producto de occidente, poco más (que cada uno lo interprete como quiera).
(por cierto, a ver quien sabe hacer ese Epsilon del título de este teletipo, comenten, comenten…)
La foto es del artista Ujino. La instalación/pieza se llama The Rotators
