June 2011
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once you start listening to music in 320kbs
yesterdayshuttingdown:
you can never go back to listening to music in 128kbs.
YUP
RotLA triva: Foley Tricks
19. The sound of snakes slithering was achieved by the sound designer running his fingers through a cheese casserole, and he created the sound of the heavy Ark lid being lifted with the lid of his toilet at home. He found the perfect sound effect for the rolling boulder by sending a Honda Civic coasting down a gravel hill.
Watchwhatsonmy:
Cut Copy - Nobody Lost, Nobody Found (via Bleary Eyed Brooklyn)
Dan Whitford has some of the best dance moves I have ever seen. Almost rivaling those of The Drums’ Jonathan Pierce…
FUCK I really want to see them live now
The Speed of Sound
capnskull:
in air it goes at 343.2 m/s(metres per second)
in water it is over 4x faster at 1497 m/s
and saltwater, an even faster 1560 m/s
This is what it looks like when you break the sound barrier underwater.
notational:
Lovely. Totally up my alley these...
Sounds in Corolla
Most of these are cliche but it’s more an exercise in keeping me more conscious of it:
creaking wood planks on the docks
gravel crunching under the tires of my Beach Cruiser
Drew’s high pitched squeaks and Davis’s ridiculous bellowing
Squeak of the front door and the noise of the bottom doors opening
classic rock radio drifting into Mom’s room from the deck
creak and...
May 2011
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Jad presents a piece by one of his favorite producers: Ben Rubin. Rubin created this audio portrait called ‘Open Outcry’ as a part of a sound installation called Sonic Garden commissioned to celebrate the reopening of the Winter Garden, an atrium space within the World Financial Center, after 9/11.
The trading floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange may look and sound chaotic to...
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WatchCasbah Circulation by Nakinyko
“Mustapha Dance” by The Clash vs “Renai Circulation” by Kana Hanazawa
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WatchI think I’m fixated with mashups because they represent a sort of logic that I can’t grasp. I’m so impressed when I can see someone’s thought process like this, who would have thought to put these two songs together? Only you ToTom. I love you so.
It’s totally hilarious, but so good at the same time. I put this on repeat, sitting on my bed jammin’ out and...
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“Beyond that, I want there to be surprise far below the level of the story. The...”
– Jad Abumrad
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Great Moments in Movie Sound (personal favorites)
Jurassic Park: The T-Rex scene. Super classic, not just for the fantastic sound design of the approaching dinosaur’s giant footsteps, but for it’s more famouse visualization of said sound: the ripples in the cup of water.
Totoro: bus stop scene. Similar to Jurassic Park, this scene utlilizes bodies of water-rain drops and puddles-working with the sound to enhance the tension and...
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The Violinist Mari Kimuri Looks for Low Notes →
claytoncubitt:
“SINCE Pythagoras, musicians and scientists have known (or thought they knew) that the lowest pitch a string stretched taut can produce — the fundamental — is the pitch it produces when vibrating freely. “Stop” the string anywhere between the end points, and the vibrating section sounds at a higher pitch. Theoretically, there is no ceiling. As with dancing, the sky’s the limit,...
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Listen To This: Library Of Congress
museumstudies:
un:
The Library of Congress launches the National Jukebox: Listen to the Library’s audio archive free of charge.
(via thedailywhat)
Cheers! That’s great news… :-)
Saw Nathan in the Comp Lab and it was hella awkward
he said one of my vids had been taken down already
SHIT i need to get on that
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I WANNA DANCE-UH
Doors that open unto more doors
Searching for remixes on soundcloud, downloading like a fool, hopped up on dexedrine and diet pepsi with lime. I feel like I fell down the mashup rabbit hole. Every link, every song, leads to 3 more!!
April 2011
5 posts
Watchfapitalism:
DEUUEAUGH
Fans
The fan in my room was taken from Granmumma’s house by Mom, she brought it to me because she loves me. I said I wouldn’t ever need it, but it’s practically always on either to cool the room, block out the hideous elctric whine of the surround sound system/lights, or mute the noise from my room or around the house
Granmumma’s old fan was a thing of legend-it would put your...
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March 2011
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“I also feel radio is like food. You spend hours, days, months gathering the...”
– Davia Nelson (Talking to Strangers)
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Listening Response: The Luckiest Lobster Part 2
Date of entry: Tuesday March 8th, 2010
Title of Program/piece: Radiolab/The Luckiest Lobster
Length: 13:28
Producers: Jad and Robert? Ellen Horne?
URL: http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2010/jul/12/the-luckiest-lobster /
Description:
This short starts in a way that is an unusual as the story. Jad and Robert are going through their usual banter, but the way the sounds...
*unfinished* Reading Response-Studs Terkel
“I’m describing one of my biggest assets. Its name is ineptitude.”
Date of entry:
Title of article / chapter: Studs Terkel: A Life in Words, Chapter 10-Interviewing an Interviewer (from our coursepack-pp44-55)
Writer: Tony Parker (words of Studs Terkel)
Description:
This chapter is formatted as a transcript of an interview with Studs Terkel, considered by many to be an authority on...
Thoughts on StoryCorps (and radio diaries)
How edited: the pieces up on the internet that are easy to find are all heavily edited by storycorps and “radio length” generally under a minute. What does that say about bias and editing? You know they just go in and extract the most poerful tear-jerking moments
Radio diaries is inherently exploitative-giving someone 18 to 20 hours of audio to make something with eventually yield a...
I am sitting in a room →
Katie Davis: Neighborhood Stories →
The difference between silence as a noun and...
Pause
Main Entry:pausePart of Speech:nounDefinition:wait, delaySynonyms:abeyance, break, break-off, breathing space,breathing spell, caesura, cessation, coffee break,comma, cutoff, deadlock, discontinuance,downtime, freeze*, gap, gridlock, halt, happyhour, hesitancy, hesitation, hiatus, hitch*, hush,interim, interlude, intermission, interregnum,interruption, interval, lacuna, lapse, layoff,letup, lull, p...
Silence
silencePart of Speech:nounDefinition:absence of sound, speechSynonyms:blackout, calm, censorship, dead air, death,dumbness, hush, hush-hush, inarticulateness,iron curtain, laconism, lull, muteness,noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet,quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence,saturninity, secrecy, sleep, speechlessness, still,stillness, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity,uncommunicativenessAnto...
In class notes-other people's paper idea
—physicality of splicing and cutting tape vs. digital editing (*remember to showthat girl the BBc audio doc.!) The differences, you can’t delete physical tape the way you can in mp3s, and in a way it allowed for experimentation more, ie the opening of Apocalypse Now.
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