En la Noche, todos los Ruidos son más fuertes

“During the night all the sounds are louder…” great video from diluvio.
(via the music of sound)

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Soundwalkers

Half hour documentary from Raquel Castro about sound and listening featuring interviews with Christoh Cox, Janek Schaefer, Peter Cusack, Rafael Toral, Sabine Breitsameter and many others. I liked the story about a young mother who used sound to communicate with her downstair neighbour, an old lady she didn’t liked because the lady controlled her comings [...]

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Venice Vaporetti

To get to the Art Biennale of Venice the way to go is usually by a waterbus, the so called vaporetto. The vaporetto station at Biennale is particularly noisy as one section of this sound recording mix can bear witness. The swimming stations are connected to the waterfront with metal bridges that swing up and [...]

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Leigh Landy – The Art Of Sound Organization

On the recent conference „recycling_sampling_jamming“ held in Berlin in February this year, Leigh Landy spoke on the subject of sampling in music. Unfortunately I was ill during the course of the festival but the lectures are still available in mp3 format here for those who missed it like me. His keynote was particularly entertaining and [...]

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Sound Works in the Movies of Gus Van Sant

I saw Gus Van Sant’s movie “Paranoid Park” on TV recently. Van Sant is well known for his controversial cinematic endeavours between mainstream success like “Good Will Hunting” and arthouse cinema as in his “death trilogy” comprising “Gerry”, “Elephant” and “Last Days”. What ever one might think about his film work, from a sound perspective [...]

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Theo van Leeuwen – Speech, Music, Sound

Theo van Leeuwen worked as a film and television producer and used to play  jazz before he studied linguistics and became the dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology in Sydney. He is now regarded a key figure in the field of social semiotics. Dispite that, his book “Speech, Music, Sound” is [...]

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Whoosh Bottle

The “whoosh bottle” phenomenon is a quite interesting sound effect as well, the sound artist Bastiaan Maris showed it to me and I was able to record several combustion reactions in his workshop that I later used in my last years composition fire pattern. Check another – much nicer – video [...]

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Metal Door Tones

Playing a metal door with tuning forks of different pitches, the sound was picked up by contact microphones…

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The Quietest and Biggest Anechoic Chambers of the World

If you are into superlatives, here are two dealing with anechoic chambers. The acoustic anechoic chamber has an absorbing surface and is shielded from the outer world in order to investigate sound waves with all reflections being removed (more recently there are radio frequency anechoic chambers as well). The experience visiting such an anechoic chamber [...]

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The Sound of the City in Flaubert’s Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert searched with exhaustive care for evidence, documents and testimony to authenticate the account of France’s social classe and the political uproar through the revolution of 1848 that was expressed in his highly influencial novel “Sentimental Education” in unrivalled manner. His description of daily live sounds is particularly evocative, here is what his protagonist Frederic Moreau [...]

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