War Music

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy is probably the most misused musical tune ever. It was Hitler’s birthday song as well as the official hymn of the European Union. The artists duo Allora & Calzadilla let the tune be played by a pianist standing in a hole cut in the middle of a grand piano. The last [...]

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Wet Sounds Festival

Tonight (19th July 2008 ) the Wet Sounds Festival closes its tour through various swimming pool locations in England with a final performance in London headlined by Nurse With Wound and Andrew Liles. “A listening gallery of sound art by artists around the world was played back through underwater speakers to a floating and diving [...]

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Four Questions by Jez Riley French

In an interview series about the hows, whys and what ifs of field recording I was pleased to answer Jez’ famous four questions. You can read the interview here, and please check the interview series with other sound artists in Jez Riley French’s blog, they are worth reading. He has just released underwater recordings of waterways [...]

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Small Room, Big Reverb – Big Room, No Reverb…

At Berlin’s tuned city festival it was possible to visit two acoustically manipulated rooms at TU Berlin: the reverb room (in german “Hallraum”) and the anechoic chamber. The contradiction here is that the smaller room has a very long reverb time of up to 8 sec. due to the surface of the walls and the [...]

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