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Listening Lab Links

• Loren chasse, photographing acustic spaces - Luca Bergero
  "The American Loren Chasse is one of the most important international artists, connected to the environment/sound relation. His abilities to listen and to transform the object in "musical instrument" are some of the most identifying features of his work. " Tags: sounds sound field recording sound art listening lab […]
• Bernhard Leitner Forum
  ""I can hear with my knee better than with my calves." This statement made by Bernhard Leitner, which initially seems absurd, can be explained in light of an interest that he still pursues today with unbroken passion and meticulousness: the study of the relationship between sound, space, and body. Since the late 1960s, Bernhard Leitner has bee […]
• Gordon Monahan - Speaker Swinging - YouTube
  First performed in 1982, this piece uses 9 sine/square wave oscillators broadcast over 3 loudspeakers that are swung in circles by 3 performers. This video was produced in 1987 and is edited to just over 7 minutes, while a live performance of the piece lasts approximately 25 minutes. For more information visit www.gordonmonahan.com Tags: listening lab sounds […]
• Public Hearing
  Very good blog collecting numerous examples of sound art, acoustic ecology, etc. Tags: sound sounds listening lab blog […]
• Painting With Sound - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
  "Like a 3-D take on Jackson Pollock, the latest work by the artist Martin Klimas begins with splatters of paint in fuchsia, teal and lime green, positioned on a scrim over the diaphragm of a speaker." Tags: sound sounds visualization listening lab […]
• About - Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region
  "Rabbit Travelogue was originally initiated by Rita Hui and Edwin Lo. This project is an on-going dialogues and travelogues between the two artist (Rita on visual; Edwin on sound) about the changes and happenings in Hong Kong. Through the fictional character in the project, Rabbit, witnessing happenings and locating different scenes in Hong Kong, this p […]
• SOUNDWALK.COM/BLOG › EDITIONS
  "Soundwalk Editions features artists and composers who use environmental field recordings as a point of departure in their work. By recording sounds outside of the conventional studio you are in the act field recording, audibly engaged with ears that gradually refine a sonic experience, like the eye looking through a camera lens. Field recording is ofte […]
• The Wandering Soul - Vietnam Psychological Operations (PSYOP)
  "Listen to the eerie sounds of "The Wandering Soul" - also known as "Ghost Tape Number 10" - that was broadcast by loudspeakers installed on Swifts and other units during "Chieu Hoi" and Psychological Warfare missions to "taunt" the enemy. { "So Moui" or "Numbah Ten" was a common slang term use […]
• Phonautogram - Studio 360
  "Did you know there are audio recordings that predate Thomas Edison's phonograph by almost 20 years? The phonautogram was invented by a Frenchman named Éduoard Léon-Scott and patented in 1857, translating sound waves (shakily) onto sheets of paper. But for the last century, no one had been able to decode the information on Léon-Scott's sheets […]
• Who Controls The Machine? Eli Keszler's Motors And Piano Wires : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR
  Tags: sound sounds urban listening lab installation sound art music […]
• Salomé Voegelin on SoundTimeSpace
  The urban and the sound are very much one and the same. Noises and tweets, squeaks and bangs, whispers and rattle are constantly present and play an important part in the shaping of the environment. consciously or unconsciously we are attracted or repulsed by certain sounds in specific configurations. But how is it interlinked with time and space, how does i […]
• 99% Invisible-43- The Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators by Roman Mars on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
  There's a secret jazz seeping from Washington's aging Metro escalators - those anemic metal walkways that fill our transit system…they honk and bleat and squawk…why are you still wearing those earbuds? Tags: sound music radio urban sounds listening lab […]
• A Balloon for Linz - Everyday Listening - Sound Art, Sound Installations, Sonic Inspiration
  "I just came back from New York City, a place with an overwhelming sound, everywhere you go. And each location in a city like that has its own resonance, its own sonic identity. That's hard to hear though if there is so much noise around it becomes a cacophony. But what if we could isolate this resonance and listen to the astonishing differences in […]
• Listening to Shhhhh in the City - WSJ.com
  "Some of the hottest tracks on digital playlists: sounds of an oscillating fan, a waterfall and crickets. White noise and other soothing sounds, once mainly played on machines to aid nighttime sleep, are increasingly helping make daytime hours more serene. When played through headphones, the sounds help people tune out chatty co-workers, pounding jackha […]
• Gruenrekorder » Autumn Leaves | Various Artists
  "The phonography scene is small and fragmented, yet ambitious and international - all factors which make it simultaneously hard and easy to keep up with developments. Ever since it was founded, Gruenrekorder has attempted to be more than just a label and turned into a hub for field recording-related issues and projects. They therefore seemed like an obv […]
• BLDGBLOG: Soundscape Ecology, or: An Archive Fever of the Ear
  Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University is hoping to start a new research discipline that he calls soundscape ecology; it will "use sound as a way to understand the ecological characteristics of a landscape," as ScienceDaily reports. Tags: acoustic ecology acoustic-ecology soundscape listening lab […]
• Earthquake Sound of the Mw9.0 Tohoku, Japan earthquake (Zhigang Peng)
  "This webpage contains earthquake "sounds" created from seismic recordings around the world generated by the 2011/03/11 Mw9.0 Tohoku, Japan earthquake. They provide a unique way for us to listen to the vibration of the Earth that is otherwise inaudible to us, and to decipher the complicated earthquake physics and triggering processes. " T […]
• 'The Music Box' in New Orleans is a Sonic Shantytown - NYTimes.com
  ""The Music Box," the project of which this tower is a part, is one of those things that requires a hyphen or a compound word to describe; Delaney Martin, its curator, calls it "a shantytown-sound laboratory." " Tags: sound listening lab NYTimes.com installation music […]
• The Yankees, a Summer Symphony in 9 Innings - NYTimes.com
  "For most fans attending a baseball game is a summer diversion, an addiction, an act of devotion. I'm a music critic, so for me it's something else too: an immersion in bustling, jumbled, enveloping sound. And if you think of the Yankees as an athletic orchestra, the team has a comfortable and acoustically lively new concert hall. What if I tr […]
• SONIC GEOLOGIC - The Secret Life of Material Objects
  "Conceptualizing sound in geologic terms is a daunting task. Both the geologic and the sonic are time-based media, defined by duration. Yet sound speaks in milliseconds, the geologic in eons. They exist in different time zones. So, given this conundrum, instead of considering how to measure sound within a geologic scale, perhaps we are better served to […]