Trains & sounds

I found this on reddit. Trains making music, "playing" sounds  through the tonal scale upon departure.

The ‘Free Music Machine’, 1948

The ‘Free Music Machine’. Percy Grainger & Burnett Cross, USA/Australia, 1948

via: http://120years.net/the-free-music-machinepercy-grainger-burnett-crossusaaustralia1948-2/

Artist Bartholomaus Traubeck has created musical masterpieces, by playing trees. He created a record player that translates the different colors and textures of tree rings into music. Rather than use a needle like a record, sensors gather information about the wood and turn them into piano notes. Every tree sounds vastly unique due to varying characteristics of the rings, such as strength, thickness and rate of growth.
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
via: http://educateinspirechange.org/science-technology/musical-trees-tree-sounds-like/

Using Sound To Levitate And Move Things In Three Dimensions

via: http://gadgetzz.com/2014/02/27/using-sound-levitate-move-things-3d/


Watch also:

The Visual Patterns of Audio Frequencies Seen through Vibrating Sand

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic on eight floppy drives

Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

Marble Machine built and composed by Martin Molin. Thanks to Jens Köbernick: https://takadimi.de/blog/die-wintergatan-marble-machine/

Theremin - Clara Rockmore play "The Swan" (Saint-Saëns)

Performed by Clara Rockmore (1911-1998), the first performer to bring complete musical artistry to the theremin. This song from suit "The Carnival of the Animals"

Berberian Sound Studio official trailer

Peter Strickland, the director of Katalin Varga, returns with a very different tale with Berberian Sound Studio. Set in 1976, Toby Jones plays a documentary sound engineer who finds himself employed by a notorious low-budget Italian horror studio. Uneasy in his new environment and surrounded by a world he finds alien, he throws himself into his work, failing to notice how life is slowly beginning to imitate art. An homage to the classic Italian Giallos of the period, Strickland's film is another triumph.





http://www.fb.com/BerberianSoundStudio
http://www.twitter.com/BerberianSound

Musique concrète, literally.

Musique concrète, literally: Ricardo Kocadag has developed a record made entirely out of concrete. Amazingly, it plays on any turntable, as you can see and hear in the video. We would have probably chosen another track (i.e. “Concrete Jungle” by Troy Brown or “Concrete” by The Neon Judgement) but it’s cool to see what’s possible in the world of weird music formats.

listen:
Reblog from:
http://www.electronicbeats.net/feed/heres-first-record-made-concrete-sounds-like/

http://www.bln.fm/2015/12/probelauf-so-klingt-die-erste-schallplatte-aus-beton/

Birds playing guitar...

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the montreal museum of fine arts.

 


in english:
http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/celeste-boursier-mougenot/

in french:
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/arts_et_spectacles/2015/11/23/005-oiseaux-guitares-installation-mbam.shtml

Spooky Space 'Sounds': real sounds from the NASA

Soaring to the depths of our universe, gallant spacecraft roam the cosmos, snapping images of celestial wonders. Some spacecraft have instruments capable of capturing radio emissions. When scientists convert these to sound waves, the results are eerie to hear. In time for Halloween, we've put together a compilation of elusive "sounds" of howling planets and whistling helium that is sure to make your skin crawl.

Hear the sound on the nasa Website: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/features/halloween_sounds.html

They also have a soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/nasa

Giant Wooden Xylophone Playing Bach

Have you ever seen a giant wooden xylophone in the forest? Just kidding, of course you haven’t! Well until now that is…. The Japanese adverting agency known as Drill Inc. built a giant wooden xylophone that’s roughly a mile long in the middle of a forest. Each wooden key is made up individual notes, and when a wooden ball starts rolling down it, it plays Bach’s famous Cantata 147. And yeah… they did all of this for a cell phone commercial.

thanks to https://www.facebook.com/adelphoimusic for the link.

http://canyouactually.com/this-incredible-mile-long-wooden-xylophone-plays-bach-when-you-roll-a-ball-down-it/

"Eye of the tiger" on dot matrix printer

"Eye of the tiger" on dot matrix printer from MIDIDesaster on Vimeo.

Wolfgang Tillmans - Wie stellt man Musik aus?

Warum gibt es eigentlich keinen öffentlichen Ort, an dem man Musik in der Studio-Qualität hören kann? Der Künstler Wolfgang Tillmans schafft Abhilfe und hat in seinem Berliner Projektraum ein Musikzimmer eingerichtet.

von Stefanie Schneider.

Interview lesen: http://www.monopol-magazin.de/artikel/20109033/Colourbox--Music-of-the-group--1982---1987----Between-Bridges-Interview-Wolfgang-Tillmans.html

99 red ballons with 99 red balloons

Artist Turns Ball Pit Into An Insane Mechanical Playground | The Creators Project

This remains me of an exhibition we did at the Bauhaus University in 2002:

Artist Turns Ball Pit Into An Insane Mechanical Playground | The Creators Project:







And this was our project:

http://amphibiousthoughts.com/projekte/installation/rumor

What the Future Sounded Like

Brilliant documentary about the birth of electronic music in Britain. The documentary enjoyed screenings at several film festivals around Australia and on ABC TV.

Official web site for the film:
http://www.whatthefuturesoundedlike.com/

Electronic Music Studios home page:
http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/
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DarwinTunes | Survival of the funkiest

The organic world – animals, plants, viruses – is the product of Darwinian evolution by natural selection. Natural selection expresses the idea that organisms (more accurately their genes) vary and that variability has consequences. Some variants are bad and go extinct; others are good and do exceptionally well. This process, repeated for two billion years, has given us the splendours of life on earth.

http://darwintunes.org/

#5 / So ist das Leben

So ist das Leben. 

Composition for Sounds, Body, Voice and Space.

Concept/Body: Léonard Bertholet
Concept/ Sounds: Antoine Léchevin

Video Arbeit / Travail / Work with Carnet de Bal.

Künstlerresidenz / Artist-in-residence / Résidence d'artiste - 01-06.2013 - Berlin

One Of The First Vocoder Machine