Beeps’n'Blips-Supercut
Hübscher Supercut von Slacktory mit Beeps und Blips aus Filmen, fast alle sind dabei, von Michael Winslows Beeps in Spaceballs über die Maschine mit dem Ping bis Wargames.
Nur der tatsächlich beste Computersound aller Zeiten in einem Film fehlt: Das Geräusch der bootenden Systeme am Anfang von Alien mit seiner Mischung aus Bleeps und Nadeldrucker ist für mich immer noch die Computer-im-Film-Sound-Referenz überhaupt. Die hier:
Listen To Bitcoin:
Vertonte Echtzeitdaten der Bitcoin-Exchange MTGox: „Realtime Bitcoin transaction and trade visualizer.“
Deaf Leopard Soundgun
Eine Soundgun, die angeblich so laut ist wie ein vorbeifahrender Zug. Das Teil heisst Deaf Leopard. (via Notcot)
33⅓Hz on Vinyl
Nette Arbeit von Carl Schilde, der exakt 33⅓ Hz auf Vinyl gepresst hat, die Umdrehungen des Plattenspielers entsprechen so genau der Tonhöhe. Ich halte zwar viel von dem dort geschriebenen „Feel the air move around“ für Blödsinn, mag’s aber trotzdem.
WOW is a vinyl record containing a single ultra-low frequency which will alter slightly depending on the mechanical components of your record player. Use more than one system to play several records simultaneously and the air around you will start pulsating. Play 33 ⅓ Hz on 33 ⅓ rpm or 45 Hz on 45 rpm. Feel free to use the pitch wheel or even touch the record to control the sub-sonic wave field. Your choice of record players, the number of records and the character of your room create your individual listening experience.
Both sides of WOW contain just a single sine tone, the most simple sound there is. Its frequency is directly proportional to the rotation speed of the record player. This means on a standard setting of 33 ⅓ rounds per minute (rpm) you’ll hear an extremely low tone of 33 ⅓ cycles per second (Hz). Play it at 45 rpm and you’ll hear a slightly higher bass tone of 45 Hz. These frequencies are very close to the lower limit of human hearing and will be more felt than heard. This sensation can be irritating for some, pleasant for others. Move around and you will experience your room’s reaction to the sound – some spaces will be shaking, others may be still.
Coding.FM: The Sound of Coding:
CODING.FM: The Sound Of Coding, gibts als Monday morning coding, Hackathon coding oder Angry dev coding. Ich bin heute so ziemlich in Monday Morning Coding-Stimmung weil spät gestern.
Flora Könemann: Voicing brain waves and looped slogans
Flora Könemann ist Audiokünstlerin und hat sich ein Interface für Loops der Sounds ihres EEGs aus einer Schreibmaschine gebaut. Schönes Portrait von Arte Creative.
Flora considers the source of her activities as to be the observation of her surroundings and her fellow men that is completely obsessed with details. In her sound performances, there are hidden looped and decomposed marks of her life, mostly unrecognizable distorted. That can be simple audio recordings but also intense discussions with herself in form of spoken texts.
Flora collects fragments, texts, words and reassembles them. The important thing for her is that these elements have a reference to reality and that they cannot be generated by any sound software. Visiting her in Berlin Neukölln, we could observe how it is possible to develop such a performance of sound and text.
Images from Soundfiles
Transsubstantiatio: „Images generated from sound files. No edition, just automatic data bending. 1. Save sound file as raw. 2. Open raw in graphics editing program.“ Bild links: Kraftwerk – Die Mensch-Maschine, Bild rechts: Dial up modem noises. (via MeFi)
How Videogame Monster-Sounds are made
Rev3Games hat eine neue Serie auf Youtube am Start, in der sie Jobs aus der Game-Industrie vorstellen. In Folge Eins geht’s um Monstersound-Macher: “Welcome to Good Job. Our new show where we look at the well known, and not so well known jobs in the video game industry. Today we’re talking to the guys from Wabi Sabi Sound where they show us some of the ridiculous monster sound effects they’re able to make using just their voices (and some studio magic). Their motto: If you can’t find the creature, be the creature.”
Illustrated Sound Creatures
Tolles Projekt vom Komponisten David Kamp, der seltsame Geräusche erzeugt hat und die hat er an einen Haufen Illustratoren geschickt, die sich Viecher dazu ausgedacht haben: Sound Creatures. Oben The Scarlett Clock-Whine (was haben die Leute gegen die gute alte Snake Owl?) von Nick Sheehy, hier noch die animierten Vogelrösser David Luepschen:
Lasercut 3D-Waveforms made from Paper
Andrew Spitz hat Paper Notes programmiert, eine Processing-Anwendung, die Wellenformen von Sounds in Kreise umsetzt und an einen Lasercutter schickt, der daraus eine 3D-Wellenform macht. Erinnert an die 3D-Printer-Waveforms von Luke Jerram, über die ich ein paar mal gebloggt hatte:
Paper Note allows you to record a message, the sound is analyzed to be transformed into a tangible waveform made from paper. We programmed Paper Note using Processing and used a laser cutter to create each slice of the waveform. Each message consists of around 450 paper disks.
Paper Note ~ A Tangible Paper Waveform {+ generative} (via Creative Applications)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
James Clars Big Fat Kick Drum-Art
3D-printed Seismogram of Tōhoku-Earthquake
Stock Exchange Sculptures
Touch-Interfaces with Contact Microphones everywhere
Youtube Direktmogees, via Jason Kottke
Bruno Zamborlin hat mit einem Kontaktmikro ein Gestenerkennungssystem programmiert, das auf jeder Oberfläche funktioniert. Toll!
Mogees is an interactive gestural-based surface for realtime audio mosaicing. In the video […] we show how it is possible to perform gesture recognition just with contact microphones.
Through gesture recognition techniques we detect different kind of fingers-touch and associate them with different sounds. In the video we used two different audio synthesis techniques:
- physic modelling, which consists in generating the sound by simulating physical laws;
- concatenative synthesis (audio mosaicing), in which the sound of the contact microphone is associated with its closest frame present in a sound database.The system can recognise both fingers-touches and objects that emits a sound, such as the coin shown in the video.
Bookmarks for Dezember 17th: 1966 Batman-Intro in Lego, International Food-Art-Incident and Saddam, Googles L-Team
Sweden Is Lending The Country’s Twitter To Citizens | Geekosystem: In a weird but awesome move, Sweden has started a campaign where its official Twitter account, @sweden, will be taken over and operated by a different Swede every week.
Occupy Goes to Washington, Finding Politics is Complicated | Threat Level | Wired.com: Even by Occupy Wall Street standards, the Washington, D.C. situation is messy and uncertain.
Artist Michael Rakowitz on How His Saddam Hussein Dinner Party Became an International Incident | Artinfo: When a dinner of venison topped with date and tahini sauce was served on plates taken from Saddam Husseins private collection at Park Avenue Autumn for Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitzs project „Spoils“, the assorted art-world diners didn’t bat an eye – but now New York Citys Iraqi mission has, turning Rakowitzs piece into an international incident. The controversy, exploding on the eve of the U.S.s supposed withdrawal from Iraq, has had reverberations touching the artist, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and president Obama himself. As Iraqi artifacts, the plates have been confiscated by the Iraqi mission after a cease-and-desist letter was sent to the restaurant, and were presented by Obama to the Prime Minister on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Google CEO’s inner circle: Meet the L Team | Reuters: The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as "The OC," short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: „L Team“ short for Larry’s Team.
Parting Shot: ‘Go Freelance,’ The Board Game About Being a Comics Freelancer
What If… Herge Created The X-Men?
ARYZ x MONTANA LiSBOA | Silkscreen Print on Vimeo
The Command Line Crash Course – Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal
awesome Gmail Tips : Gmail as you have never known it before
Mars Attacks Portfolio of Roughs Published ~ 1982
Web Symbols typeface
StarCraft changed my life
Early sound recordings heard for first time: Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California together with digital conversion experts at the Library of Congress and curators of the work and industry division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have succeeded in playing some of the earliest experimental sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell.
Bradley Manning Had Secrets | Adam Butcher – Writer. Director. Filmmaker: The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-identity. Animated in a rotoscoped pixel-art style and using dialogue from Bradley’s online conversations, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation.
Changing Contours of Global Order, Professor Noam Chomsky – YouTube: Professor Noam Chomsky presented a lecture „Changing Contours of Global Order“ a look at our drastically changing world, and the implications for domestic and world order on 4 November 2011. This was a free public lecture and was Professor Chomskys only public appearance in Melbourne, Australia.
Art Spiegelman Lecture at SHU – YouTube: SHU ComicsAnimation has uploaded a good, long video featuring Art Spiegelman giving a lecture – it features discussion about Maus, the Holocaust in the media and the craft of creating comics.
Adrian Frutiger – Ein Leben – YouTube: Mit Schriften wie der Univers und der Frutiger hat sich Adrian Frutiger schon zu Lebzeiten ein Denkmal gesetzt. Seine Schriften haben den Alltag geprägt und sind zum Beispiel auf den Euro Scheinen wieder zu finden. Einer der größten Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts ist den meisten Menschen vollkommen unbekannt. Dieses Interview soll das ändern.
Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0 | Webmonkey | Wired.com: Popcorn is simply a JavaScript library that aims to simplify the process of adding external data culled from around the web to your video. To give an idea of what’s possible with Popcorn, Mozilla is showcasing the movie One Millionth Tower, a documentary film about an apartment building and how residents imagine the future. One Millionth Tower premiered online last weekend at Wired.com. If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to the Underwire blog.
One Millionth Tower uses some tricks beyond Popcorn (like WebGL for some 3D elements), but most of its coolest effects — like the way the environment in the film changes based on the real-time weather conditions and time of day at the Toronto high-rises where the documentary was filmed — are all courtesy of Popcorn.
If it happens to be snowing in Toronto when you watch the film, it will begin snowing in the virtual world of One Millionth Tower.
Contact Mic Recordings
Schicker Clip von Tim Prebble über Kontaktmikroaufnahmen, hier das Posting dazu: The first rule of CONTACT MIC club. (via MoGreens)
Why Fingernails on Blackboards Sound So Horrible
Michael Oehler von der Macromedia Uni in Köln und Christoph Reuter der Uni Wien haben untersucht, warum Ihr das Geräusch kratzender Fingernägel auf Schultafeln nicht ertragen könnt. Ich hab’ mit diesem Sound ja kein Problem, warum auch immer. Bei was ich allerdings zitternd in Embryonalstellung verfalle und mich danach drei Minuten lang nicht mehr bewegen kann: Der Sound, den vollgeschwitzte Handoberflächen machen, wenn sie über eine glatte Tischoberfläche schubbern. Alleine beim Gedanken daran zieht sich mir alles zusammen. People are strange.
Michael Oehler of the Macromedia University for Media and Communication in Cologne, Germany, and Christoph Reuter of the University of Vienna […] found that disturbing sounds do cause a measurable physical reaction, with skin conductivity changing significantly, and that the frequencies involved with unpleasant sounds also lie firmly within the range of human speech — between 2,000 and 4,000Hz. Removing those frequencies from the sound made them much easier to listen to. But, interestingly, removing the noisy, scraping part of the sound made little difference.
A powerful psychological component was identified. If the listeners knew that the sound was fingernails on the chalkboard, they rated it as more unpleasant than if they were told it was from a musical composition. Even when they thought it was from music, however, their skin conductivity still changed consistently, suggesting that the physical part of the response remained.
Misophonia: When Sounds of Eating drive you insane
Es gibt tatsächlich ein Krankheitsbild für Leute, die – grob gesagt – ausrasten, wenn Leute schmatzen.
For people with a condition that some scientists call misophonia, mealtime can be torture. The sounds of other people eating — chewing, chomping, slurping, gurgling — can send them into an instantaneous, blood-boiling rage. Or as Adah Siganoff put it, “rage, panic, fear, terror and anger, all mixed together.” […]
Many people can be driven to distraction by certain small sounds that do not seem to bother others — gum chewing, footsteps, humming. But sufferers of misophonia, a newly recognized condition that remains little studied and poorly understood, take the problem to a higher level.
