All Together Now. Every Beatles tune, played together, sequenced in order of lengths, with the longest starting first and all 226 tunes ending together. This is a single link SoundCloud post.
posted by The Discredited Ape
on Dec 14, 2011 -
36 comments
Luigi Russolo was a
futurist painter,
experimental composer, and
instrument builder. In his 1913 manifesto "
The Art of Noises" he declaimed the death of traditional Western music and foresaw the dawning of a new music based on the grinding, screeching, moaning, crackling and buzzing of mechanical instruments. He and his assistant Ugo Piatti built the
Intonarumori to bring these new sounds -
"the palpitation of valves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of a tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags" - to life. Listen to them,
then and
now.
posted by fire&wings
on Oct 28, 2009 -
10 comments
Seattle-based German artist Trimpin makes sculptural musical instruments. He was
profiled in a mini-documentary by Washington public TV station KBTC a couple of years ago. Here are videos of some other works of art he's created,
Fire Organ,
Liquid Percussion,
Cello, Sensors and Record Players,
Contraption at Seattle-Tacoma Airport,
MIDI-controlled Player Piano and
Sheng High.
Kyle Gann wrote
an essay by that placed Trimpin in the tradition of John Cage, Harry Partch and other avant-garde American musical inventors. The audio of a nearly hour and a half long 1990 interview with Trimpin by Charles Amirkhanian can be
downloaded from the Internet Archive. Another,
more light-hearted interview in connection to his show at this year's SXSW, where a documentary about him premiered (
trailer).
posted by Kattullus
on May 4, 2009 -
5 comments
Abnormal Behavior Child's got some interesting things to
look at and watch or
play with. Site self-describes as "visual poetry".
{second link's got flash/sound}
posted by dobbs
on Apr 17, 2007 -
6 comments
"Sonic fabric (woven from 50% cotton and 50% audio cassette tape) emits sound when you run a tape head over it. Because the tape retains its magnetic quality through the weaving process, it acts as a big wide band of tape." Here's an
interview with the creator.
{via Apartment Therapy}
posted by dobbs
on Oct 29, 2006 -
26 comments
Making music entirely from non-musical things:
McDonalds Happy Meals,
Henry Kissinger,
Bread,
Salad Tosser,
Fluorescent Lamps,
the Bible,
Hearts,
Dot Matrix Printers,
Photocopiers,
Volkswagen [possibly nsfw],
The Postal Service,
Blank Tapes,
Eiffel Tower,
Deportation Orders [scroll down],
Cakes,
Cucumbers,
Furniture [scroll down to #12],
Skin,
Roads,
Underpasses,
Frogs,
Vinyl Run-Out Grooves,
Radios,
Natural Geophysical Phenomena,
Carly Simon and
other stuff.
posted by nylon
on Aug 7, 2005 -
16 comments
rand()% is an automated net radio station
streaming real-time generative music. All audio is generated by algorithmic software applications and programs written by sound artists and programmers.
posted by signal
on Jun 5, 2005 -
18 comments
Window Standpoint. If you've ever wondered what international sound artists see and hear when they're at home, staring out of their pokey apartment windows and watching the world go by, then this is the site for you.
posted by nylon
on May 27, 2005 -
7 comments
Location location location [mp3s] The Phonography Archives, field recordings from around the world. Also,
DeadSCSI, a global collaborative remix/collage/reremix project of tracks all generated from a single original sound file of a SCSI drive breaking down. These and other music/art projects are on
Radiant Slab.
posted by carter
on Mar 11, 2005 -
3 comments
