Sound Research

"With TubeChopper you can now play YouTube like a sampler! You can add cue points and play/sequence them from a hardware MIDI controller."

"A documentary on the artists and musicians pushing turntables to the limit in experimental music. Featuring Maria Chavez, Graham Dunning, Shiva Feshareki, Philip Jeck, Haroon Mirza, Marina Rosenfeld, Janek Schaefer, and Vinyl, Terror & Horror. Directed by Sam Campbell (www.samcampbell.net) Produced by The Vinyl Factory"

"In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient album by any means, it was the first album explicitly released as an 'ambient music album'. The album was essentially a continuation of Eno's experimentation with the tape machine as a compositional tool, as well as his exploration of generative music, music created by systems. In this article I'll discuss how Music for Airports was created, I'll break down and recreate the tracks 2/1 and 1/2, and hopefully give you some ideas about how to adopt this approach yourself."

"Two Postcommodity members, along with composer Guillermo Galindo, are partnering with members of a fast-gentrifying Santa Monica neighborhood to produce a sound-based artwork of contested histories."

"An installation at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden ponders the sounds made by plants. Visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden can hear a version of the songs these corn plants have to sing. Credit Marcos Brindicci/Reuters Image"

"kurimanzutto presents Tarek Atoui's project Organ Within at its cabinet space in New York City. Operating as an open sound laboratory, and instrumentarium, Atoui will debut a new hybrid sculptural object that engages numerous technologies in order to re-envision the spatialization, perception and performativity of the traditional organ. The Organ Within is the result of his ongoing collaboration with instrument-makers Léo Maurel and Vincent Martial, and their research into historical church pipe organs, modular synthesizers, and the sonic experiences of deaf people."

"Contrary to popular belief, and the writings of Jacques Cousteau, life beneath the ocean surface is not a silent world but a dense and rich sonic environment where sound plays a fundamental role in life."

" Have you ever wondered what a single electron moving through the universe sounds like? With scientists Kyle Serniak and Luke Burkhart from the Yale Quantum Institute, sound artist and composer Spencer Topel presents the first-ever music created from the measurements of the dynamics inside superconducting quantum devices, the precursors to quantum computers."

I see them in the streets and in the subway, at dollar stores, hospital rooms, and parties. I see them silently dangling from electrical cables and tethered to branches of trees. Balloons are ghost-like entities floating through the cracks of places and memories. They are part of our rituals of loss, celebration and apology. Yet, they are also part of larger systems, weather sciences, warfare and surveillance technologies, colonialist forces and the casual UFO conspiracy theory. For a child, the ephemeral life of the balloon contrasts with the joy of its bright colors and squeaky sounds. Psychologists encourage the use of the balloon as an analogy for death, while astronomers use it as a representation for the cosmological inflation of the universe. In between metaphors of beginning and end, the balloon enables dialogues about air, breath, levity, and vibration.

"As in sacred music in the West, Tibetan music has complex systems of musical notation and a long history of written religious song. "A vital component of Tibetan Buddhist experience," explains Google Arts & Cultures Buddhist Digital Resource Center, "musical notation allows for the transference of sacred sound and ceremony across generations. A means to memorize sacred text, express devotion, ward off feral spirts, and invoke deities.""

"Infographics show the human-like musical structure of humpback whale songs, as they synchronize their music across hundreds of miles."

Amazing online tool that allows you to create vocal sounds my manipulating the shape of the interior parts of the mouth (tongue, palette, throat, etc) and also the lips.

""It is less about music being scientific and more about the universe being musical.""

"Considering human imagination the last piece of wilderness, do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song?"

"Leave it to a group of new parents to be inspired to study the effects of screaming on the human brain."

"Passarello's essays dissect the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum with significance and emotion. There's Dean's scream, Brando's "Stella," and a yawp that has made cameos in movies from A Star is Born to Spaceballs. The voice is thought's incarnating instrument and Let Me Clear My Throat is the annotated soundtrack of us giving voice to ourselves."

great short about foley artists creating sounds for a fishing village