Publicado en Engadget

Si estás interesado en los sistemas armamentísticos no letales o simplemente eres fan de Chimo Bayo, es probable que hayas oído hablar del “Dispositivo Acústico de Largo Alcance”, LRAD o “Sonic Blaster” desarrollado por American Technology Corporation [...] Resulta que todos los millones invertidos por sus creadores no son suficientes para atravesar un triste casco de moto protegido por espuma aislante y varias vueltas de policarbonato. El programa de divulgación de la BBC Bang Goes The Theory así lo ha demostrado en su último episodio, protegiendo a uno de sus presentadores con nada más que materiales fácilmente obtenibles en cualquier supermercado más o menos bien surtido. De nada sirvieron sus más de 150 decibelios concentrados en forma de haz; unas buenas tijeras y algo de maña es todo lo que necesitas para evitar los efectos de este sofisticado aparato de control de masas. En fin, más negocio para Raytheon y su “rayo del dolor

Publicado en Sound and music

[...] Cook concludes there is a ‘glaring disparity between the way in which the arbiters of musical taste approach musical structure and the way in which listeners generally respond to it’. In fact, people usually follow the surface narrative of a piece of music much as they follow the story of a novel, moving from event to event without perceiving, or seeking, a underlying structural Gestalt. And why should anyone deem this ‘listening style’ flawed, or suggest such listening provides an incomplete experience of the music?

So why has form always been so exalted?

My theory is that it is because form is more readily quantifiable, more easily subjected to scientific-style analysis, than other features of music. Form is easily reduced to diagrams, setting out sections and their inter-relationship, just as harmony can be ‘explained’ by numbering notes, drawing balloons around them, extracting important chords. [...]

El Beatboxing, esa capacidad de algunos humanos para reinterpretar los sonidos de una caja de ritmos con una suerte de técnicas vocales y del resto del cuerpo, se convierte poco a poco en una especie de lugar común para la publicidad y la ficción. Genial el trabajo de Chris Cairns, sobre todo porque ha tirado de algunos de los especialistas en la materia como Shlomo, Scracht Perverts o los espectaculares en directo Foreing Beggars.

En http://www.neurosonicsaudiomedical.com/ tenéis más info y fotos de producción. Ah y aunque la postproducción esté todo en digital y demás se rodó originalmente en 35mm.

[Vía Juan Luis Matilla]

Sound in Context (Full Film) from Sound and Music on Vimeo.

Sound in Context is a short documentary exploring the unique practice of sound within the visual arts world. Through conversations with a number of key art institutions/galleries, artists and curators working with sound in the UK, Sound in Context allows practitioners to discuss some of the issues of presenting and exhibiting sound in the gallery and contemporary art domain.

Sound as a medium is time-based and is sensitive to space, perception/experience and environment, and has become intertwined with disciplines of sculpture, architecture, installation, film and media art. The ephemeral, invisible nature of sound poses a number of challenges within cultural practice and presentation. Situated between practices of music and art, sound overflows boundaries of the gallery, disrupts line between stage and audience, moves beyond categorizations, and merges models of economy and culture industry. Sound in Context explores the place and future of sound within an expanded arts milieu, while opening up reflections for sound artists engaging in the art world, and visual artists engaging with sound in their work.

Interviews with:

Seth Cluett (artist), Benedict Drew (artist/curator), Barry Esson (director, Arika), Anne Hilde Neset (deputy editor, The Wire), Hans Ulrich Obrist (co-director, Serpentine Gallery), Mike Stubbs (director, FACT), David Toop (writer/curator), Richard Whitelaw (programme director, Sonic Arts Network)

Produced by: Jonathan Web and Ashley Wong?Thanks to: The Jerwood Space, Goldsmiths’ University of London, Sonic Arts Network, Nicolas Sauret, Arika, FACT Liverpool, Serpentine Gallery, The Wire

Sound and Music is an arts organisation that supports innovative practice in contemporary music and sound. From sharing information at our website, to a full programme of live events and commissioned activity, we raise the profile of contemporary music and sound in its cultural context, to build support and audiences for new work in the UK.

soundandmusic.org

Sound in Context was developed as a web documentary and can be viewed online in a four-part series on the Sound and Music website. A full 30-minute version is also available.
Via : Grandegraphix

Comercializada para aquellos que quieren escuchar música a bajísimo volumen, pero se sienten incómodos usando auriculares. Un ejemplo muy curioso de privatizacion del espacio acústico cuando compartes cama.

“The Sound Asleep Pillow is a great invention which if you enjoy listening to music and also sleeping then you will really enjoy this. The Sound Asleep Pillow has a built in speaker which you can connect to your iPod, other MP3 players, CD players and most radios.”

También en versión High Fidelity Pillow Speaker

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson investigates the man-made noise pollution which is becoming increasingly invasive in our lives and in our environment, affecting both humans and wildlife. He explores what noise is, the impact of man-made noise and the possible long-term consequences if we don’t turn the volume down.

In the oceans, increasing levels of background noise is disrupting long-distance communication among whales. On land, studies of Great Tits have revealed how birds near busy roads sing at higher frequencies than those in nearby quieter woodlands.

In 1996 the European Commission issued a Green Paper which stated that an estimated 20 per cent of all EU citizens were exposed to noise levels that scientists and health experts considered to be unacceptable, at which most people become annoyed, sleep is disturbed and health may be at risk. Noise is a health issue as well as a nuisance. Recent studies have demonstrated excessive risks of hypertension in people living near airports, even when asleep.

Following the Green Paper, the European Commission issued a directive for member states to map noise levels of major cities. Today, noise, like air and water pollution, is an environmental issue which governments and policy makers cannot ignore.

Chris discovers that education is the first step in taking personal responsibility when he explores the potential damage of exposure to loud music in public venues or on personal listening devices.

Broadcast on:
BBC Radio 4, 9:00pm Thursday 20th August 2009
Duration:
30 minutes
Available until:
9:32pm Thursday 27th August 2009

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[Vía Plunderphonics]

Nueva peli de Coixet, narrada desde la experiencia sonora.

Ya ha sido premio de sonido en Cannes 2009.

‘Mapa de los sonidos de Tokyo’ está protagonizada por Ryu (Rinko Kikuchi), una chica solitaria, de aspecto frágil, que de noche trabaja en una lonja de pescado en la capital japonesa y que de forma esporádica recibe encargos como asesina a sueldo.

Junto a ella estará David (Sergi López), un hombre de origen español que posee un negocio de vinos en Tokio y que mantenía una relación con Midori, que se suicida, hija del señor Nagara (Takeo Hakahara), un poderoso empresario que llora su muerte y que culpa de la misma a David.

Completan el reparto el japonés Min Tanaka, en el papel de narrador, que es a la vez un ingeniero obsesionado por los sonidos y que Coixet ha creado a partir de conocidos suyos que graban todos los ruidos que oyen en sus viajes alrededor del mundo.

http://www.acoustic-cartography.com/

“Today there are various sophisticated methods to locate sound (acoustic camera, methods of acoustic holography, microphone arrays), but known visualizations by spectrograms still strongly remind of thermographic images. acoustic shapes, unlike thermographic ones, differ from the contour of the measured object. image overlays make it even more difficult to read and compare the results. the diploma “digital acoustic cartography” is an interactive experiment in mapping sonic events into a concrete visual language. source material for the visualizations are images and image-sequences recorded by the “acoustic camera” (microphone arrays with camera), developed by the society for the promotion of applied informatics (GFaI) in berlin, germany (http://www.acoustic-camera.com) [...]”

No comments… Habría que replantearse las escuelas de música…?

via: createdigitalmusic

http://www.alg-a.org/SONOSFERA-de-Santiago-Audio-Accion

SONOSFERA DE SANTIAGO |Escoitar.org+Alg-a|
(Escoitar.org e Alg-a no Festival dos Abrazos)
Santiago de Compostela, venres 21 de agosto de 2009
13.00h (Salida na Praza do Toural)
http://www.festivaldosabrazos.org/

El evento consiste en un Paseo Sonoro por las calles de Santiago de Compostela con un micrófono gigante de 7 metros de longitud (recorriendo los lugares donde se pueden escuchar los sonidos propios de la ciudad, aquellos de configuran el carácter y la identidad acústica del lugar, recogiendo los llamados sonidos de pertenencia, sonidos que los habitantes reconocen como propios y que no se escuchan en otros lugares). El micrófono gigante, (el Macrófono, hinchable de 7 metros arrastrado y sujetado con [arneses] por varios artistas sonoros del colectivo Alg-a), es capaz de capturar el sonido del ambiente de la ciudad en tiempo real posibilitando su emisión por una emisora de Radio FM (Radio Gallega). Toda la región podrá escuchar estos sonidos. En el recorrido el Colectivo Alg-a propone al mismo tiempo acciones sonoras en distintos espacios de la ciudad vieja.

Videos:
Sonosfera de Las Palmas
Sonosfera de Porriño

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