Today is the birthday of Robert Allen Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan (Duluth, May 24, 1941).
Here he is in 1964, aged 23, at the Newport Folk Festival and recently at the David Letterman show with a song from the last album where he interprets songs by Frank Sinatra.
Another online drum machine based on alphanumeric characters.
Uppercase and lowercase letters are the same; space make a rest. You cannot change the metro or download a file (you have to record the loop).
Be careful to use a multiple of 4 characters if you want your fanatic 4/4.
Outings is a global participative project, initiated by Julien de Casabianca, a French visual artist and filmmaker.
Anyone in their own town can go to their museums, take pictures of portraits with their phones and set them free.
It’s also museums, schools and cities organizing themselves with the inhabitants of their towns.
Eventually it’s exhibitions in museums and galleries of the photographs Julien de Casabianca took of his own Outings and shot all around the world.
Here is the gallery page with cities from around the world (some italian also).
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Eerie sounds from the edge of space were recorded for the first time in 50 years aboard a NASA student balloon experiment.
Infrasound microphones captured the mysterious hisses and whistles 22 miles (36 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface last year. Daniel Bowman, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, designed and built the equipment. The instruments eavesdropped on atmospheric infrasound, or sound waves at frequencies below 20 hertz. Infrasound is below human hearing range, but speeding up the recordings makes them audible.
Bowman, who has been building and launching his own high-altitude balloons since high school, hopes that his experiment will revive interest in atmospheric infrasound. “There haven’t been acoustic recordings in the stratosphere for 50 years. Surely, if we place instruments up there, we will find things we haven’t seen before,” he said.
Here is the recording
Fonte/Source: Live Science
Luc Ferrari – Petite symphonie intuitive pour une paysage de printemps (1973-74)
A review by Blue Gene Tyranny
A lovely work of electro-acoustic music by one of the French pioneers of musique concrète, “Petite Symphonie Intuitive Pour un Paysage de Printemps” (“Little Intuitive Symphony for a Spring Landscape”) recreates the composer’s experiences during a climb toward sunset on the Causse Méjean, a high plateau in the Massif Central, including his recollection of a shepherd’s flute and its reverberations across the landscape. The flute sounds and multiple echoes continue in changing musical modes throughout the piece (the tonic redefined by electronic drones), blending together with sounds of the countryside and conversational fragments from the human presence to create a beautiful sonic landscape of 25 minutes duration.
(((.foundsoundscape.))) is “a live radio collage of foundsound places to underscore your personal spaces”. It’s curated by Janek Schaefer and features 1000 different locations, by 100 different artists.
Foundsoundscape was inspired by the very first Digital Radio station in the UK, that simply played a recording of a rural location. Radio you could just leave running to add a peaceful ambience to your environment indoors. It heralded a new media paradigm, as digital broadcasting offered more capacity than requred for the first time, and that space needed filling. At the same time on TV, Channel 4 was broadcasting Big Brother live 24hours, and at night I loved to tune-in my analogue TV sets all over the house, and the shed, so I could hear the housemates gently sleeping as I worked through the night. Since then infomercials, and gambling TV have taken over, and I greatly miss that sense of real-time space, that does not demand your attention. Foundsoundscape quietly underscores your environment, by creating new ones from others.
Alan Lomax (1915 – 2002), ethnomusicologist, anthropologist and record producer, has collected sound materials from almost all over the world, from Spain to Great Britain, South America and Africa.
Now all of this material is online here.
Site description:
The Sound Recordings catalog comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s. In addition to a wide spectrum of musical performances from around the world, it includes stories, jokes, sermons, personal narratives, interviews conducted by Lomax and his associates, and unique ambient artifacts captured in transit from radio broadcasts, sometimes inadvertently, when Alan left the tape machine running. Not a single piece of recorded sound in Lomax’s audio archive has been omitted: meaning that microphone checks, partial performances, and false starts are also included.
This material from Alan Lomax’s independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and preserved by the Association for Cultural Equity, is distinct from the thousands of earlier recordings on acetate and aluminum discs he made from 1933 to 1942 under the auspices of the Library of Congress. This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax’s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky (1937) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center at the Library. Attempts are being made, however, to digitize some of this rarer material, such as the Haitian recordings, and to make it available in the Sound Recordings catalog. Please check in periodically for updates.
In Japanese, the word ‘hakanaï’ is used to define the ephemeral, the fragile. The French group, Company Adrien M/Claire B invites the public to join them in the illusory world of dreams. The audience is invited to peer into a cloth cube where a visual haiku of a dancer and thousands of dancing images is unfolding. Hakanaï is an impressive convergence of dance and visual art, of bodies and moving graphics, of reality and dreams.
Since 2004, Company Adrien M/Claire B has been connecting digital culture with the performing arts. The collective develops performances and exhibitions that combine the real with the virtual. By focussing on man and body within a technological framework, they create timeless, poetic works.
The owl fly in perfect silence.
Inaudible even in headphones, despite passing a few centimeters from a large set of microphones in an already silent test environment. Its wings move the air without generating any spikes.
Please, note: NOT “any spikes at audible frequencies”, just no spikes. The record is a almost straight line (see the second video).
Taken from the BBC Two Natural World program. Reported by Lucia.
In the first video there is the essence of the experiment.
Here we have a more complete video with some comments.
Finally a good Windows version.
