Sound Research

Natural Car Alarms is a project consisting of three cars rigged with modified car alarms whose typical six-tone siren has been replaced with a similar one made only of bird calls. Some of the bird sounds are shockingly electronic in character; others are

What kinds of sounds can you find in New York City? With sound-seeker, you can zoom, pan and search for sounds with interactive satellite photos or detailed maps.

Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way-by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.

great collection of odd homemade musical instruments

Experimental Musical Instruments is an information outlet for interesting and unusual musical instruments of all sorts. Here you'll find how-to materials on instrument making, as well as books and CDs featuring the work of the most inventive instrument ma

Product Design and Electronic Music. Some very fun and far out ideas here. A jelly fish theremin!

Pulses of inhaled and exhaled air form hypnotic compositional streams. Hans van Eck presents his sound-world delivered from the unique architecture of the bass box.

How can sound help us better understand our environment and engage in today's critical ecological issues? The Ear to the Earth festival kicks up the volume of the earth's sonic life with concerts, installations, public art, and panel discussions that expl

Be it sirens, jackhammers, or your neighbor's too-loud TV, noise is everywhere in the urban landscape. Today, we'll talk about how to protect yourself from all that racket with guests Arline Bronzaft, Chair of the Noise Committee on the Mayor's Committee

Open Sound New Orleans is a community media project that invites and enables New Orleanians to document their lives in sound. You can participate by recording, or making recording requests for, the important sounds and voices in your life and adding them

Welcome to the Music Sensors & Emotion website. We are a research group based in the Sonic Art Research Centre (SARC) at Queen's University Belfast. The Music, Sensors and Emotion (MuSE) research group is a multidisciplinary team focused on both qualitati

as the name suggests, this is a blog that specializes in video documentation of unusual musical instruments

Click to start the Grand Tour or select an odd musical instrument below to view and hear. Know of an odd instrument that isn't here? Let us know and we'll put it online!

Neuhaus appears rather liberal on matters of sound and noise, not surprisingly for someone who started organizing sound events in the 1960s with the LISTEN! Series, 1966-76 - these promenade tours without commentary consisted in walks to inaccessible indu

Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His installation "Überorgan"-a stadium-size, fully automated bagpipe-was pieced together from bits of electrical hardware and several miles of inflated plasti

"SoundFjord is a gallery and research unit dedicated to the Sonic Arts"

graphic scores

"Inside the Soundscape Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. She presents soundscape workshops and lectures internationally, performs and writes."

If you live in New York, I can understand how this kind of racket might drive you bats sometimes, but to me it was a revelation.

"The International Ambiances Network aims at structuring and developing the research field of architectural and urban ambiances. It wishes to promote the sensory domain in the questioning and design of lived space. This sensitive approach of the built environment involves all the senses (sound, light, odors, touch, heat,…). Such a network favors multisensoriality and pluridisciplinarity (human and social sciences ; architecture and urban planning ; engineering and applied physics). It is open to a wide variety of profiles and includes research activities as well as design, teaching or artistic ones."