MetaFilter posts tagged with soundart

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kenko — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:45:29 -0800

Primiti Too Taa is an animated excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. You can see the whole text, and hear the whole thing as voiced by Schwitters or many others, including a text-to-speech program and the author of Eunoia. The various performances are quite different; Christian Bök takes it extremely quickly, Jaap Blonk's 1986 version is very soft, and Adrian Khactu is more speechlike. Kun Jia's "Simultaneous Ursonate" is surprisingly musical.

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Beautiful Screaming Lady — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:18:46 -0800

I HV DRM

liketitanic — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:16:56 -0800

The book artist Clifton Meador has dabbled in a few other projects, including I HV DRM, a version of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic speech delivered at the 1963 March on Washington. Meador's edited out the words, leaving only the pauses and the audience response. "We can't remember the words anymore," he says. He's also done something like the reverse, recreating Washington Crossing the Delaware [PDF warning] in words, rather than images. (Meador also makes some of his artist's books available as print-on-demand purchases through Lulu.com. And "Masks of Evil" is a free, downloadable artist's book, based on Brecht's poem and directed at the Bush administration, available on his site.)

Not With Reynols

jtron — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:03:22 -0800

I Am Not Sitting In A Room With Reynols. Previously. Related.

But is it MUSIC?

nylon — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:29:43 -0800

David Webber makes awesome sound art things from christmas trees, pot plants, household stuff, food blenders and hard drives. His good friend Ray Wilson builds awesome modular synths. Ray will also show you how to make your own Weird Sound Generator.

Len Lye: stuff that moves and makes noises

nylon — Tue, 30 May 2006 11:47:59 -0800

Len Lye: New Zealander Len Lye was a restless maverick - a pioneer of films without cameras (drawing directly onto the celluloid) and kinetic art (CD available through Atoll, sound samples here and here), and he was also quite handy with poems and inks. More about his Windwand and recently installed Waterwhirler on Flickr. Coralised open directory of short Waterwhirler movies here.

Let The Swedish Sing It For You

nylon — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:06:38 -0800

Let Them Sing It For You. Alternatively, you can Låt dam sjunga det åt dig. Also, a tree with birds in it, and Sound Carpets. Potentially lots more sound fun at the Swedish Radio page, although the exact quantity of fun you'll have depends on your ability to speak Swedish.

There's no such thing as noise, only sound

nylon — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:41:15 -0800

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.

A Singular Christmas

soplerfo — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:35:33 -0800

A Singular Christmas. You know how you're so busy during the holidays that you don't have time to listen to all that Christmas music you love some much? Brian Whitman and his Eigenradio have taken all the hassle out of holiday music-listening for you by "play[ing] only the most important frequencies."