Utilisant les outils électroniques, je crée et détruis le bruit.
Oakland DJ Amplive did a bunch of re-mixes in tribute to Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” album.
He put them up on the net for free.
He received a cease and desist order from Warner Bros. lawyers.
He put a video on YouTube explaining himself and asking to meet the band and play them the re-mixes.
He did.
Amplive’s remix album of In Rainbows is once again available for free download, this time with the band’s blessing. Get the Rainydayz remix album here.
Great work Radiohead - keep it up.
America is a recording studio.
Hear the president talk on fiscal policy, foreign relations, business, health, global warming, trade, defense, infrastructure, technology.
When the president brings everyone together under a common cause great things happen.
Are you ready to do business with America?
This amazing stuff popped up on MetaFilter - footage from Dr. Christopher Chang, an E.N.T. specialist who deals with various issues associated with the voice.
Start by having a look at this movie of a woman singing glissandi from low to high then high to low. If you want to see more footage, especially of people who have all sorts of issues with their voice - check out this page.
What amazed me is watching how the vocal membranes themselves change with pitch and how athletic the entire vocal mechanism is. Now all we need is to hook up David Lee Roth to the endoscope and get him to give ‘Running With The Devil’ another shot.
As a side note - I used Skitch to get the screen grab you can see above. Total genius - this app rocks and makes stuff like grabbing an image for things like this a total cakewalk!
Interesting video here - I would love to put 4 of these into a massive space and get people to play and perform some new music on them. I wonder how they sound once they start to get really low?
Here is a guy with a set-up in his lounge room.
From:
This Should be Played at High Voltage: “Steve Ward’s Singing Tesla Coil video. Previously.“(Via MetaFilter.)
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Here are two geeks riffing on how to make a musical Tesla coil. Cool/nerdy. As usual there is no accounting for taste - consider yourself warned.
Damn, someone already made six of them for a concert! See some of these posts…
So just now 2 people that I have not laid eyes on for some time, one who lives down in Tassie and another that lives in the UK, both happen upon this blog here pretty much simultaneously and let me know. The universe is totally awesome like that. Get into it while you still can people.
Device turns waste heat into sound, then electricity: “Mark Frauenfelder:
A team of doctoral students led by University of Utah physicist Orest Symko have constructed a device that ‘converts heat into sound and then into electricity.’ They believe it could work as an alternative to photovoltaic cells and be in production in two years.
The project was funded by the US military as a way to harness the waste heat produced by radar systems and power electronics in the field.
When heat is applied — with matches, a blowtorch or a heating element — the heat builds to a threshold. Then the hot, moving air produces sound at a single frequency, similar to air blown into a flute.
‘You have heat, which is so disorderly and chaotic, and all of a sudden you have sound coming out at one frequency,’ Symko says.
Then the sound waves squeeze the piezoelectric device, producing an electrical voltage. Symko says it’s similar to what happens if you hit a nerve in your elbow, producing a painful electrical nerve impulse.
Longer resonator cylinders produce lower tones, while shorter tubes produce higher-pitched tones.
Devices that convert heat to sound and then to electricity lack moving parts, so such devices will require little maintenance and last a long time. They do not need to be built as precisely as, say, pistons in an engine, which loses efficiency as the pistons wear.
Link (Via Complexity Digest)
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(Via Boing Boing.)
My good pal, man of the sweetest of sweet luck and all round digital cowboy Mr. Rhian Hinkley shot through this link of some mad colourization technology. Check it:
In our approach an artist only needs to annotate the image with a few color scribbles, and the indicated colors are automatically propagated in both space and time to produce a fully colorized image or sequence. We demonstrate that high quality colorizations of stills and movie clips may be obtained from a relatively modest amount of user input.
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