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  • music box migrations (mechanised version)

    music box migrations (mechanised version)

    Images of migrating birds are used like graphic scores and played through motor driven winding music boxes. At each point on the score where there is a bird – a note is played on the music box. The sounds are…

  • lissajous

    lissajous

    Lissajous is a complex audio/video signal generator built in Max/MSP and inspired by the work of Jules Antoine Lissajous. The software shows sound oscillations as XY matrix functions and creates complex graphics curves. Lissajous graphically describes sound and allow observation…

  • tipping point

    tipping point

    Kathy Hinde’s music merges machinery and natural stimuli to create stunning sound and visual aesthetics. Her music and visual art grows from a partnership between nature and technology. Her sculptural sound installation, Tipping Point, invites us to consider our relationship…

  • implosion chamber

    implosion chamber

    High frequency sound waves propagate through a water-filled cylinder, prompting naturally diffused air bubbles to implode. While tracing the motion imparted by sound waves, these implosions are accompanied by shock waves, jet formations, temperatures as high as are found on…

  • christoph cox lecture

    christoph cox lecture

    This lecture was recorded November 20, 2014, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts as part of the Graduate Studies Lecture Series. By Christoph Cox, “who is completing a monograph about sound…

  • Human Harp

    Human Harp is an instrument that clips to suspension cables, enabling us to hear and play a bridge’s song. Founded by artist Di Mainstone in partnership with Queen Mary University of London, Human Harp is also supported by Arts Council England, Arup, Roundhouse and…