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By tyler on Sep 6, 2008 in Lamellophones, Recordings | 0 Comments
Happy Saturday, thanks for reading.
By tyler on Sep 6, 2008 in Lamellophones, Recordings | 0 Comments
Happy Saturday, thanks for reading.
By tyler on Aug 28, 2008 in Contemporary, Recordings | 4 Comments
Leif Inge, an idea-based artist from Norway, stretched Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to last 24 hours without any pitch distortion. “[The source music] lasts approximately 65 minutes, hence the applied expansion-factor is about 22.15.” This rendition, entitled ‘9 Beet Stretch,’ is unrecognizably slow, creating an entirely different mood than that of the [...]
By tyler on Aug 27, 2008 in Electronic/Digital, Experimental, Nature, Recordings | 0 Comments
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?
By tyler on Aug 26, 2008 in Bands/Musicians, Glass, Idiophones, Recordings | 0 Comments
The Glass Duo is composed of Polish musicians Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec. Apparently they have built the largest glass harp in the world which covers four and a half octaves!
A beautiful glass harp melody entitled “Promenade” by the Glass Due:
Please enjoy several more recordings by the Glass Duo.
By tyler on Aug 19, 2008 in Lamellophones, Metal, Recordings | 1 Comment
A beautiful rendition of the song “Carol of the Bells,” played on array mbira (which, like all fixed-at-one-end tongue instruments, is classified as a lamellophone).
By tyler on Aug 16, 2008 in Bands/Musicians, Noisemakers, Recordings | 1 Comment
L’Atrapa-sons is a television program from the Tv3 network in Catalonia. Check em out..