machines
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Urban Auscultation: Perceiving the Action of the Heart
New article by Shannon Mattern at Places Journal on urban soundscape and the importance of listening to the city nowadays. “For months, the Covid-19 virus has passed from body to body around the world. Its corporeal work is silent, but…
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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…
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migration
An installation for numerous factory-second dictaphones which, by subtly transforming their mechanics and audio electronics combines their simple motion, voltage and operative noise into a visual and aural display reminiscent of the massed migrations of birds or insects. While obliquely…
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North Idaho Trains
Frank Bry has published a new post talking about several trains he recorded this year at North Idaho. Back in March of 2011 I started a two year project to record as many trains as possible from North Idaho. I’ve…
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Motor Grader Recording
The Recordist has published a nice post about a huge machine he recently recorded. These BIG machines sound really cool. Diesel engines, air hoses, dirt scraping and high speed passes with the transmission whining and whirring. After some digging around…