Category: Nature

Listen to a sunrise »

Richard Widerberg from Göteborg, Sweden has some very odd and interesting sound recordings on his website including a track entitled “Sunrisescape” which makes use of light sensors and two oscillators to record the gradual illumination of a rising sun. You can find this recording here.
Is this a new form of photography?

Are you an Antarctic wind instrument maker? »

Ralph, the head of the US’s Antarctic Search for Meteorites program, is looking for a portable wind instrument to add some musical warmth to the frigid zen-like region of the East Antarctic Polar Plateau. Ralph and his team spend weeks camping in the desolate ice and need your help!

Ralph writes,
I run the US’s Antarctic [...]

Bill G. Loyd’s giant wind bells »

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 [...]

An arsenal of oddstruments »

Ken Butler’s “hybrid instruments” - Axe, crossbow, and assault rifle violins? Shovel tablas, easel guitars, umbrella igils, and toothbrush violas? Oh my! Watch Ken put a mic in his mouth and play his entire face!

Instrument ridiculousness!

The Anta Project: Playing the US/Mexico border with instruments of mass percussion »

An interesting sound project by Glenn Weyant:

“The Anta Project is a series of recordings blended in a multi-track laptop environment to create a single sonic collage of the U.S./Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona.”
Watch a video here: King David’s Wall

Call This Number! »

Call +4790369389 to have your voice blasted into the luscious lands of Norway through September 20th, 2008.

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 [...]