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

From Ganesh and Fingerworks.

If you haven’t heard about this already, it’s a pretty cool idea. Basically, David Byrne attached a bunch of lopsided motors and solenoids to the structural steel in an old ferry station/slaughter house in New York City. The motors/solenoids, controlled by a recycled organ, vibrate/strike different elements of the building such as pipes, radiators, girders, columns, and beams! No amplification was used in the project; just the natural resonance of the building itself.

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More information about this project: David Byrne

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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 of Dalsfjord in Western Norway. Apparently, a “massive” amount of people have been calling. The sculpture is only “available” when the wind is blowing and the line isn’t busy.

Nice!

“When you dial the Telemegaphone’s phone number the sound of your voice is projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale below. No answer? Telemegaphone Dale is wind powered and self-reliant. Recently however, the weather has been exceptionally calm in Dale and there has been a massive amount of people calling.”

Telemegaphone Dale

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Mike Evans is an incredible sculptor in Santa Fe and this is one of his more abstract works. It is made of stainless steel tubing which, if purchased today, would cost $1500-$2000 instead of the $150 Mike spent ten years ago.

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Before the advent of radar and hearing aids, hearing “trumpets” and the like were used to amplify distant sounds. Acoustic radars were invented during war time to locate ships in the fog and approaching airplanes. These listening devices not only enabled the listener to hear subtle, distant sounds, but also allowed for great accuracy in pinpointing the direction of the sound source due to the increased spacing and size of the giant “ears.” Some of these devices are very accurate, for example, the German RRH is able to detect the size of an approaching aircraft formation 8 miles away with the directional accuracy of 2 degrees.

Two-horn listening device at Bolling Field, USA in 1921

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