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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/

Literal:
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 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)

http://www.instructables.com/id/EXATA9WCLYET2JYKMM/

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

Control-Total. Feliz 1984

Más info sobre Bill Brown y SCP

dΩrkbΩt tΩkyΩ, 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

http://www.plankman.com/projects/tuned_stairs/

“Tuned Stairs is the introductory installation for the Fabrica exhibition at Center Pompidou on 6 October - 13 November 2006. As visitors walk down the stairs leading to the exhibition, their footsteps activate a musical sound. The installation refocuses the attention of the visitor onto their footfalls - allowing them the opportunity to compose their timing, movement, and the resulting melody […]”

Via: Pixelsumo

http://www.worldchanging.com/book/

[worldchanging blog]

Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.

From consumer consciousness to a new vision for industry; non-toxic homes to refugee shelters; microfinance to effective philanthropy; socially responsible investing to starting a green business; citizen media to human rights; ecological economics to climate change, this is the most comprehensive, cutting-edge overview to date of what’s possible in the near future — if we decide to make it so.

The Worldchanging book contains over 600 pages, divided into 7 sections which include a vast range of topics.

stuff :: green design, biomimicry, sustainable food, clothing, trade and technology

shelter :: green building and landscaping, clean energy, water, disaster relief and humanitarian design

cities :: smart growth, sustainable communities, transportation, greening infrastructure, product-service systems, leapfrogging and megacity challenges

community :: education, women’s rights, public health, holistic approaches to community development, South-South science, social entrepreneurship and micro-lending, and philanthropy

business :: socially responsible investment, worldchanging start-ups, ecological economics, corporate social responsibility and green business

politics :: networked politics, new media, transparency, human rights, non-violent revolution and peacemaking

planet :: big picture — everything from placing oneself in a bioregion to climate foresight to environmental history to green space exploration

[amazon.uk]

Tras varios meses de anuncios, hace poco que está disponible “VJ: Audio-visual Art and VJ Culture”, el libro editado por el colectivo D-Fuse y Michael Faulkner y publicado en laurenceking.

En este libro se intenta dar una vision global de la cultura vj, en la línea de “The VJ Book”, editado por Paul Spinrad en el 2005.

Esta publicación muestra el trabajo y las opiniones de unos 120 vjs de todo el mundo y se incluye información técnica sobre hardware y software así como análisis de configuraciones y métodos empleados en la práctica del video en “tiempo-real”. También incluye un DVD con piezas de video y fragmentos de sets de algunos artistas.

VJ: Audio-visual Art and VJ Culture
Edited by D-Fuse

192 pages
260 x 240mm
ISBN 1 85669 490 9
paperback
£25.00

A major change has taken place at dance clubs worldwide: the advent of the VJ. Once the term denoted the presenter who introduced music videos on MTV, but now it defines an artist who creates and mixes video, live and in sync to music, whether at dance clubs and raves or art galleries and festivals. This book is an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this dynamic audio-visual experience.

Crucially, it combines how-to, showcase and reference elements. It opens with a series of articles on contextual and historical issues. The central section showcases the work of over 120 international VJs and the last chapter covers equipment (hardware and software) and typical stage set-ups (explaining installing equipment, utilizing space, creating an environment to suit an audience, etc..), along with supplementary guidelines and tips on how to make a performance.

http://www.auditory-seismology.org/

Abstract
Usually seismic waves have a frequency spectrum below 1 Hz and therefore cases are rare where earthquakes are accompanied by hearable sounds. The human audio spectrum ranges between 20 Hz - 20 kHz which is much above the spectrum of the earth’s rumbling and tumbling. This is one of the reasons why seismometric records are commonly studied by the eye and visual criteria. Nevertheless if one compresses the time axis of a seismogram by about 2000 times and plays it on a speaker (so called ‘audification’), the seismometric record becomes hearable and can be studied by the ear and acoustic criteria. In the past a few attempts have been made to use audification of seismograms as a method in seismology. In the 1960’s Sheridan D. Speeth proposed it for discriminating atomic explosions from natural quakes. G. E. Frantti and L. A. Leverault rechecked it in 1965 and Chris Hayward transposed audification to seismic research in 1994. But these attempts faded away with almost no response, - in our opinion - because a more general reasoning and founding theory of “Auditory Seismology” was missing. We would like to intercede for this research topic by the following considerations:

Philosophical and psychological research results show that there is a substantial difference between seeing and hearing a data set, because both evolve and accentuate different aspects of a phenomenon. From philosophical point of view the eye is good for recognizing structure, surface and steadiness, whereas the ear is good for recognizing time, continuum, remembrance and expectation. In studying aspects like tectonic structure, surface deformation and regional seismic risk the visual modes of depiction are hard to surpass. But in questions of timely development, of characterization of a fault’s continuum and of tension between past and expected events the acoustic mode of representation seems to be very suitable.

Via: neural.it

http://www.onefreeminute.net/

What would you say, given one free minute of anonymous public speech?

One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. Anonymous callers to One Free Minute’s toll-free line can record a message of up to a minute, to be broadcast in the public soundscape. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly more than 150 feet away from the sculpture. [more…]