Detritus

▶ interesting idea: ‘found’ field recordings via youtube         ▶ DPA at AES: “The heavy-duty 4060 and 4061 microphones….. features stainless steel housing, sturdy cable relief and a thicker .08-inch cable. Both enhanced models are exceptionally durable…

▶ Alvin Lucier: Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music   ▶ Two great idiosyncratic pianos for Kontakt: Plastic Ghost Piano (thanks Nathan) and Old Tape Piano   ▶ Can’t find/afford a TB303 – heres a solution – thanks Logan!  …

  ▶ great read on Kronos Quartet   ▶ A sound so LOUD that it circled the earth four times   ▶ These Hopeful Machines is a great six part radio documentary on the evolution of electronic music by James…

  ▶ The art of focus (pscyhological, not cameras)   ▶ The music of molecules   “We started experimenting with infrared lighting and discovered that the IR emitter in the Microsoft Kinect projected a starfield-like dot pattern not unlike what…

▶ very interesting binaural microphone design – stereo and ‘3D’ by 3DIO – plug your headphones in and check out their example recordings   by Fernando Livschitz   ▶ Chart topping songs as graphs and diagrams   ▶ Its pretty…

  ▶ “Some feature animations consist of about 10,000 drawings, but Ghibli’s sometimes exceed 80,000!   this is pretty fantastic – thanks Simon!   ▶ love these animated archival photos     ▶ Scientists have captured the sound one atom…

  “Created for the Saint Sauveur chapel in Caen, Caten is a levitating sculpture, determined by gravity and guiding the evolution of a sound composition. 300 fine wires suspended from two ropes, connected themselves at each end to a slowly…

  > (some of the) greatest electronic albums of the 1950s and 1960s   > love this: how to disable a surveillance camera using a corkscrew wine bottle opener   > Noam Chomsky is a new X Factor judge! (FWIW…