A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of “melody roads“, which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel. The concept works by using grooves, which are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. Just as travelling over small speed bumps or road markings can emit [...]
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Japan’s Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive
Posted in noisy oddities, tagged melody roads, noisy oddities, street on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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I’m Andreas Bick. I compose and I work with sound. This is my acoustic notebook. You can find my thoughts about books and CDs I like and some sound recordings I did on the way. (I also practise my english writing skills here, so excuses for the mistakes I make...) Silent listening is about the fringes of music, the periphery where music turns into sheer sound - concrete, wild, sometimes stunningly beautiful.
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