DUALITY - Atlantic City Sound and Light Show - July 4th from Moment Factory on Vimeo.
The show premiered on July 4th. Here are the reactions! ** New permanent sound and light show on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Multiple HD projections, surround sound, theatrical lighting and the latest architectural video mapping technologies will bring Boardwalk Hall’s historic façade to life every night all season long.
The Rap Board is a soundboard of rapper catch-phrases and hip hop ad libs. Just click on your favorite floating head for a delightful surprise. LINK: The Presurfer
Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki teamed up with Mathew Kneebone to create an incredible beer can sound system for Red Stripe’s “Make Something Out of Nothing” project.
Suzuki and Kneebone were commissioned by Red Stripe, Jamaica’s most popular beer, to use their talents and create a work that reflects Jamaican DIY culture. The two came up with a sound system inspired by the towering, bass-driven sound systems that started out in the ghettos of Kingston and nowadays provide the rhythm of Jamaica street life. Because they can’t get their hands on expensive materials needed to build sound systems, Jamaican reggae groups often have to improvise and make them from scratch, using all kinds of stuff that doesn’t usually serve as components. This inspired the artistic duo to create their own DIY sound system from recycled Red Stripe beer cans.
Most of the 5,000 tin cans used for the project were collected from this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. The final piece, which measures 2.5 meters high and 2.5 meters across, has speakers hidden inside the cans as well as a can microphone. Jamaican singer/songwriter Gappy Ranks tested the DIY can sound system and was impressed with the sound quality and the design of the musical structure. LINK, Via: Youtube
it's real qucik. Listen to the people react on the other side of the ship who can see it coming. Priceless. LINK: Youtube
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That is the original video demo for the first sampler from the 60's (it is so very British!).
Have you ever heard a fan of classic rock or earlier music bemoan that new music is just a bunch of old music sampled and looped back with different vocals, etc? That musicians these days don't play their own instruments or really sing their own songs? Well... sure there is some truth to that. And yet, that's not to say that musicians from earlier generations didn't sample music in their songs. Meet... the Mellotron.
Created in England in the 1960s- this was a keyboard in which each key is connected to a loop of tape featuring a pre-recorded sound. The pre-recorded sound could be anything: flutes, violins, voices, random noises coming from your basement. By hitting the key, you played the recording, thus recreating that sound on command. It was the first keyboard using sampled sounds, a kind of instrument you will find in every studio in the world these days. Who used the instrument? Well the Beatles for one. They used it heavily on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band" and "Magical Mystery Tour." Not to mention The Zombies, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and The Kinks.
The instrument became unpopular during the Punk Era, but was used again in New Wave and, of course, Electronic Music in the 1980's.
And then was used by basically everyone in the 90's: U2, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, R.E.M, Dinosaur Jr, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty, and many many others.
These days an original Mellotron is rare to find, but there is a steep demand for them because they produce such a unique sound and feel.
- Via: emyoku, Via: Neatorama
Aaron Keim says: "Here is a tin can ukulele I made recently. It is walnut and mahogany with an italian espresso can." He plays in a band called Boulder Acoustic Society. LINK: Boingboing, Via: Youtube
Young multi-talented artist/musician Felix Thorn incorporates fine art, sculpture and sound design in his music-making sculptures known as Felix's Machines. This video shows the elegant and hard-working machines at play. LINK, Via: Vimeo
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Blair Neal turned an overhead projector into a musical instrument. As he scrolls the transparency, a camera reads the placement and color of marks as musical notes. The project is called “Color a Sound.”
Via: Make, Via: Neatorama
The Codeorgan analyses the 'body' content of a web site and translates that content into music. The Codeorgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synth style, and drum pattern most appropriate to the page content.
What does your web site sound like? Via: The Presurfer
The Long and Winding Road by Paul McCartney. The Pin-Barrel Harp is now close to completion and is shown being put through some trial performances by Henry Dagg and Chris Wood. The Pin-barrel Harp is a sound-sculpture designed as a public-access acoustic composing machine in honour of Cecil Sharp, it has been commissioned by the English Folk Dance & Song Society and funded by the Big Lottery fund. Vocals: Chris Wood; arranging/programming: Henry Dagg, who has to wind the machine manually until the motor is fitted.
Link, Via: Urlesque, Via: Neatorama, Via: Youtube
Created in Barcelona, Posada's sculpture uses all sorts of unique gadgetry to respond to its environment, translating the movement around it into a terrifying spectacle of light and sound.
A pair of sensors above the sculpture detect exhibit-goers' movements and relays them to several LED lights, spinning on an concentric structure resembling an atomic diagram. A surround sound system in the exhibit space is synchronized with the lights.
What does all of that tech amount to? A spinning, whirring neon orb that looks like some sort of bomb, moments after detonation. Or an alien pod, hovering menacingly. Or some other thing that's threatening my life. All I know is that art appreciation has never been scarier. [Designboom] Via: Gizmodo
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Swiss artist Zimoun builds sound installations that create a unique audiovisual experience. This video is a compilation of many of his projects, including listening to woodworms at work using a microphone, an automat with selections representing different cities, and pvc hoses flopping about under the force of compressed air. You can see an archive of project-specific videos at the above video link.
Official Website, Via: Make, Via: Neatorama
Carol of the Bells on perfectly tuned corona bottles (they make the best sound), by "plucking" them with your finger. LINK: Youtube
"QUOTE" Sorry Jason. You trumped my LED Lego stormtrooper minifig with your cylon and Iron Man, but this modded R2-D2 Lego minifig kills them all with lighting and actual Star Wars astromech sounds. [Brickmodder Via: FBTB Via: Brothers Brick] Via: Gizmodo, Via: Youtube
Very Funny Sleeping Baby Pigs React To Sounds !!! LINK: Youtube
Create your own (wallpaper) images through sound using Sonacom.
As orbs float across the screen, click on them to unlock their sounds and the site will generate an explosion of graphics based on the qualities of the audio clip. Click on a colourwheel on the left to choose between different sound files based on emotion, imagination, evasion, and more. LINK
Table that ressonates with sound causing sand to form patterns that look almost liquid when they change form. You may need to turn your volume down to watch this. The sound gets very high pitched. LINK: Youtube
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