http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sound+electronic Posts tagged with 'sound' and 'electronic' at MetaFilter. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:10:11 -0800 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:10:11 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/70183/Early%2DElectronic%2DInstruments <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray" title="Wikipedia entry for Elisha Gray">Elisha Gray</a> could have been known to us as the inventor of the telephone. Instead, he goes down in history as the accidental creator of one of the first <a href="http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/">electronic musical instruments</a>, the "Musical Telegraph." There are many other examples of early electronic instruments, including: the <a href="http://www.synthmuseum.com/magazine/0102jw.html" title="A 200-ton instrument to transmit music through New York telephone lines">Teleharmonium</a>, the <a href="http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/audion_piano/index.html" title="keyboard used one of his Audio triode tubes for each octave">Audion</a> <a href="http://ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/tech.php?id=2345938&lid=1" title="keyboard instrument used oscillators to produce electromagnetic waves at a particular frequency">Piano</a>, the <a href="http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/optophonic/index.html" title="Instrument projected lighted patterns on a wall when pitches were selected on the keyboard">Optophonic</a> <a href="http://dbr.club.fr/exempled.htm" title="example of one key effect">Piano</a>, the <a href="http://www.trautonium.com/" title="played by pressing a wire to a metal bar">Trautonium</a>, the <a href="http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/martenot/" title="one hand pulls a ring to change pitch while the other hand and knee control various parameters">Ondes</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA00Wug6uyc&fmt=6" title="YouTube video of the instrument being played">Martenot</a>, the <a href="http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/rhythmicon/" title="Play the instrument online">Rhythmicon</a>, the <a href="http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om29000.html" title="tones are produced by pressing against a touch-sensitive fingerboard while volume is controlled with a lever">Theremin Cello</a> and the better-known Aetherphone (aka <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin" title="wik article since this instrument is so well-known">Theremin</a>) to name a few. MetaFilter discussed <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/60765/soundwaves" title="Thread by the AMAZING nickyskye">odd music</a> previously. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70183 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:10:11 -0800 electronic music notobsolete odd sound terrapin http://www.metafilter.com/65348/HOMOPHONI <a href="http://www.homophoni.com/index.html">HOMOPHONI</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65348 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:19:19 -0800 abstract adapt commons computer creative David effect electronic experimental field Kirby laptop music noise recording share sound hama7 http://www.metafilter.com/62732/Growing <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5035493341344091564&q=Growing+live+video&total=1561&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0">Gr</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9siC11IVpAw">ow</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92dhekq9BdQ">in</a><a href="http://www.growingsound.com/">g</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_(band)">.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62732 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:31:52 -0800 band drone electronic Growing sound video hama7 http://www.metafilter.com/53497/Sonic%2DPostcards <a href="http://www.sonicpostcards.org/">Sonic Postcards</a> - winner of the New Statesman New Media Award. Explore sound. Via the <a href="http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/">Sonic Arts Network</a>, UK exponents of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroacoustic_music">Electroacoustic music</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53497 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:02:54 -0800 art electroacoustic electronic music noise sound tape voice nthdegx