sound
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The Maya Civilization and Their Use of Architecture for Sound Manipulation
National Geographic has published a very interesting article about Maya temples and how its acoustic characteristics of affect the sound played there. Centuries before the first speakers and subwoofers, ancient Americans—intentionally or not—may have been turning buildings into giant sound amplifiers and distorters…
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Squarehead’s Audioscope, Zoom in Audio Using 315 Microphones
Audioscope is a concept by the Squarehead’s Norwegian physicists Morgan Kjølerbakken and Vibeke Jahr. It’s a system created for isolating audio spots from all kind of sources, even noisy environments. It was developed for basketball stadiums, where Audioscope can focus on…
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Recording of the Week: Bathroom Drone by Nathan Moody
Room tones and “found drones” are one of the our favorite things when recording sounds. Those tones generated around the world can be exotic and fun to gather. Sonic Terrain’s co-founder and editor Nathan Moody published such a drone on…