By tyler on Sep 3, 2008 in Art, Electronic/Digital, Experimental, Listening, Public | 0 Comments
We’ve all heard of experimental music, but what is experimental listening? George Khut, a Sydney based artist specializing in “body-focused interactive art systems” (e.g. biofeedback systems) is the creator of “Pillowsongs,” an installation exploring sleep and rest as a space for listening. A large collection of music and audio recordings were mixed semi-randomly [...]
By tyler on Aug 29, 2008 in Aerophones, Art, Fire, Metal | 0 Comments
Pyrophones, also known as explosion/fire organs, are musical instruments which are sounded by explosions, fire, rapid combustion, rapid heating, and other thermoacoustic devices. The combustion occurs inside of the actual resonance chamber (the pipe). Fire organs are said to have been around since the 1700s! Modern pyrophones are usually powered by propane [...]
By tyler on Aug 26, 2008 in Art, Glass, Idiophones | 1 Comment
The Cristal Baschet, also known as the crystal organ, sounds very much like it’s crystallophone similitude, the glass armonica. Both of these instruments are friction idiophones, that is they produce their sounds when their glass ‘keys’ (in this case, 54 chromatically tuned glass rods) are vibrated, usually by a wet finger.
“The vibration of the [...]
By tyler on Aug 22, 2008 in Art, Contemporary, Experimental, Homemade/DIY, Human Instruments, Noisemakers, Performances, Public | 4 Comments
Nick Cave, an artist and educator working out of Chicago, is the creator of full body “soundsuits” which are made from layers of metal, plastic, fabric, hair, found objects, and other things that rub together to make noise. Many of Cave’s soundsuits are politically/socially inspired and have deeper meanings than just looking fantastic and [...]
By tyler on Aug 16, 2008 in Art, Garden Instruments, Homemade/DIY, Metal, Nature, Percussion Instruments | 0 Comments
Browsing through Madrid, New Mexico today, I stumbled across some wonderful wind bells/gongs on display at the Range West gallery. These bells, made by the Truchas, NM artist Bill G. Loyd, are cut from recycled gas tanks (e.g. scuba tanks, CO2 canisters, O2 firefighter tanks, etc.). From Loyd’s bio, “the qualities of each [...]
By tyler on Aug 6, 2008 in Art, Electronic/Digital, Inventions, Metal, Nature, Noisemakers, Public, Technology | 190 Comments
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Telemegaphone Dale is a 23-foot-tall wind-powered loudspeaker sculpture that picks up incoming calls and projects them into the nearby surroundings. This Telemegaphone, created by the Swedish designers at Unsworn Industries, is located on a mountain overlooking the village [...]
