If you are one of those die hard Tolkien fans without a sense of humour then please don’t watch this…. but for anyone else this is a brilliant & very funny parody of Lord of the Rings by French &…
Visualize thy audio
For obvious reaons (maybe) I am eternally fascinated by the visualization of audio. Whether its immediate, high resolution & technical or processed & interpretative. The primary historical term seems to be synaesthesia but almost everyone these days suffers (or more…
piano; prepare, play, process..
A while ago I posted a few photos of my lovely old baby grand piano, which I prepared after being inspired by seeing Fred Frith playing guitar….. At the time I said I would post a few recordings from it…
old is the new punk
“My Generation” by The Zimmers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY “Hoppipolla” by Sigur Ros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxMQaMqsig
Are movies too loud?
“You know that ringing in your ears? that eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehh… thats the sound of the ear cells dieing, thats their swan song. Once its gone you will never hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while it lasts’. Thats a line of…
art vs commuters
What do you think would occur, hypothetically, if one of the world’s great violinists performed incognito before a traveling rush-hour audience of 1,000-odd people? The Washington Post did this very experiment with Joshua Bell performing on a Stradivari violin made…
sonic tourism
This is one place I am definitely visiting next time I am in the UK! If only you could rotate & point them at things! For the record the above photo is of a sound mirror which was used for…
WALTER MURCH, astronomy & acoustic space
There is a very interesting interview with pioneering film & sound editor Walter Murch about his research into ancient astronomy & a theory he has developed related to the Pantheon in Rome. He also goes on to discuss architecture, acoustics…