Thursday, September 17, 2015

Cory McAbee

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Years by Bartholomäus Traubeck

A tree's year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently. This record features seven recordings from different Austrian trees. They were generated on the Years installation in Vienna, January 2012.

Music for pieces of wood - Steve Reich

B. B. King-The Thrill Is Gone Gayageum ver. by Luna

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

The Honorable Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Macaulay Library

We invite you to explore the world's largest archive of wildlife sounds and videos. Our mission: To collect, preserve, and facilitate the use of wildlife recordings for science, education, conservation, and the arts. http://macaulaylibrary.org/

Earliest recording: Cornell Lab founder Arthur Allen was a pioneer in sound recording. On a spring day in 1929 he recorded this Song Sparrow sounding much as they do today
Youngest bird: This clip from 1966 records the sounds of an Ostrich chick while it is still inside the egg – and the researchers as they watch

Liveliest wake-up call: A dawn chorus in tropical Queensland, Australia is bursting at the seams with warbles, squeals, whistles, booms and hoots

Best candidate to appear on a John Coltrane record: The indri, a lemur with a voice that is part moan, part jazz clarinet

Most spines tingled: The incomparable voice of a Common Loon on an Adirondacks lake in 1992

Most erratic construction project: the staccato hammering sounds of a walrus under water

Most likely to be mistaken for aliens arriving: Birds-of-paradise make some amazing sounds – here’s the UFO-sound of a Curl-crested Manucode in New Guinea

Monday, February 23, 2015

MF Computer by Mother Falcon

Mother Falcon is an orchestral indie band born in Austin, Texas that has quickly become an award winning recording act and a top concert draw, performing in rock clubs while maintaining a presence in the performing arts scene scoring plays and films.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Hot Sardines - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

The Ghost in the MP3 by Ryan Maguire

The MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Layer III standard, more commonly referred to as MP3, has become a nearly ubiquitous digital audio file format. First published in 1993, this codec implements a lossy compression algorithm based on a perceptual model of human hearing. Listening tests, primarily designed by and for western-european men, and using the music they liked, were used to refine the encoder. These tests determined which sounds were perceptually important and which could be erased or altered, ostensibly without being noticed. What are these lost sounds? Are they sounds which human ears can not hear in their original contexts due to our perceptual limitations, or are they simply encoding detritus? It is commonly accepted that MP3's create audible artifacts such as pre-echo, but what does the music which this codec deletes sound like? In the work presented here, techniques are considered and developed to recover these lost sounds, the ghosts in the MP3, and reformulate these sounds as art.

Ninja Tune Solid Steel Radio Show 13/2/2015 Part 1 + 2 - DJ Food

Monday, February 9, 2015

Tristan Perich - Microtonal Wall at Interaccess - Walkthrough

Tristan Perich - Microtonal Wall at Interaccess - Walkthrough from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

1,500 speakers, each playing a single microtonal frequency, collectively spanning 4 octaves. Commissioned in part by Rhizome, with additional support from the Addison Gallery.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015