“The 4 ways sound affects us,” a Julian Treasure TED Talk:
Julian Treasure runs the sound-branding firm Sound Agency, and is author of the a blog. His TED vid above also has an audio marketing vers:
“Sound Affects” (10:23 mp3):
via Hear 2.0.
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Sez Gizmodo:
I can think of no finer way to waste Friday afternoon than spending 10 minutes of the company’s time watching bullets striking various objects at one million frames per second… For a special treat, load the clip around 7:30 in to watch what happens when a hollow point bullet strikes what looks like cement.
1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from
Kurzzeit
That’s a 7mm hunting bullet hitting a target at 603 m/s and a 7mm hollow point at 595 m/s, filmed by Kurzzeit, makers of “Professional measurement equipment” in Germany. They’ve posted several High Speed Videos, and there’s more high speed slow motion in Matt Rece’s video gallery.
via Gizmodo.
At this summer’s World Science Festival, Bobby McFerrin plays with the pentatonic scale and audience participation during the session “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”:
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
For more Bobby McFerrin and the science behind the participatory pentatonic predictions, see the full “Notes & Neurons” event.
via Monkey See Blog : NPR via boingboing.
Just got the new Funny Car flyer from
Drag Racing Underground. Reminded me of their musical side, the band Big Stick. Their tunes are audio auto crashups, fusing dragster sounds, race track announcers, race engine specs, driver intervus, and full throttle rock n’ roll.
Their 1895 sonic salute to summer, “Drag Racing,” went top ten in the U.K.. The tune was one of the select singles in John Peel’s Record Box. And its lyrics are a single line of pure poetry: “In the summer I wear my tube top, and Eddie takes me to the drag strip.”
The cut was re-released on their 2004 Hot from the Strip!. (Also check WFMU’s Blog “Summer Necessities” (w/ mp3).
Another Big Stick classic— “Jesus Was Born on an Indian Reservation” (2:33 mp3):
Big Stick: tube | space | site | DRU
Suppose they gave a Town Hall, and a Tea Party showed up. Excerpts for 2009 health care collective chaos…
Town Halls 2009
Note: While HV may not agree with the sentiments expressed, we do love lively freedom of expression.
Audio/Video Production: Barrett Golding
Music: Jeff Arntsen
Audio mix: Robin Wise
Video clips: ABC World News, WGNO- New Orleans, David William Hedrick, The Young Turks, Hot Air Pundit Kathy Castor, Hill Newspaper, YouTube. See playlist- Town Halls 2009 (videos).
Another CollegeHumor original vid, which came “First”:
Write plump checks asap — or perish — payable to The Social Media Guru:
“I bore of your analog attitude.” Vid by Markham Nolan using the new Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie tool.
via DigiDave.
Multi-D infographics potential from the Edward Tufte (statistician, sculptor, designer) podcast…
Edward Tufte: Wavefields
Ask E.T. “Wavefields: intense animated data graphicsâ€:
“Wavefields” are data graphics that draw on and completely fill the entire display surface, using every pixel on the data plane to show high-resolution, complex, multiple, animated statistical data-flows. Wavefields extend my work on sparklines.…
As the metaphor for sparklines is the resolution of typography, the metaphor for wavefields is the HD video, which records approximately 1 gigabyte per minute, a data throughput that might finally make our statistical graphics worthy of the powers of the human eye-brain system.
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[Note that E.T. leaves out “ear” from the “human eye-brain system” — his audio reflects his sonic neglect.]
More on Infographics:
Cool Infographics blog
Flickr Info Graphics Pool
Smashing Magazine Data Visualization and Infographics
Edward Tufte: site | tube
Just found out about the Lucky Dragons: sound-tech-music-visual collage artists. Lotsa listening and downloads of LD trax at the Free Music Archive and their site: Lukey Dargons (LD = Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara).
Here’s some scales off the Lucky Dragons…
A nice string thing, “Home” (0:58 mp3):
Street sounds with sweet vocals, the first track off the Dark Falcon album, “heartbreaker” (2:06 mp3):
One of their “audio reconstructions and rearrangements of field recordings from 4 anti-war protests” on hawks and sparrows, “track 7” (3:00 mp3):
And this Fader TV report, on an LD audio-invention, starts slow but gets good, so stick with:
LD links: site | space | shop/ | tube | blog | fma
via Some Velvet Blog.
Welcome to Soundville, a Sony audio performance project:
In March 2009 a small town in Iceland was filled with speakers. The Seydisfjordur village was turned into an extraordinary sound-system for a week. Sounds by Richard Fearless ( Death in Vegas ) Mum, Bob Dylan, Toumani Diabate, Roberto Goyeneche, Murcof, Federico Cabral, Guillemots, etc.
This film by Juan Cabral of London’s Fallon agency documents the town-turned-into-tunes:
“Sony Soundville”
More Soundville at: Sony | uTube.
via SoundRich and Creativity.
Another POTUSA performs the presidential imperative of singing in an rx video:
From Perth, Australia music-movie-masher. Pogo ( space | tube | last w/ free mp3s | blog)
Expialidocious
and while we’re gettin’ all Disney on your derriere:
Negativland – No Business – “Favorite Things” (1:59 mp3):
Dada – Puzzle – “Dizz Knee Land ” (4:07 mp3):
via some velvet blog.
Fuqn hilarious— State of the Web 2.009:
A CollegeHumor original: “We Didn’t Start the Flame War”
via Catch My Fame.
On our new Didya Know page, we’re breaking down the stats & sources from the popular fact-filled “Did You Know” videos, along w/ updates and errata — lotsa the latter. In fact we’ve found so many errors, the page has become less “Did You Know?” and more “how do we figure out what we know?”
Here’s a YouTube playlist with two versions of “Did you Know?” and two parodies:
See HV’s “Didya Know†Statements, Sources, Updates, and Errata.
Be careful what you wish for— From Seth MacFarlane’s (Family Guy creator) Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, “Die, Sweet Roadrunner, Die:”
Sez Radio Lab: “After hearing our about moments of death, filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. What follows is what he found:
16: Moments
Listen : John Cage – in love with sound / silence -01
Transcript of the interview with John Cage in the film “Ecoute” (Listen) by Miroslav Sebestik:
[part 1]
When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking, and talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic, here on 6th avenue for instance, I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound. What it does is it gets louder and quieter, and it gets higher and lower, and it gets longer and shorter. It does all those things.I am completely satisfied with that. I don’t need sound to talk to me. We don’t see much difference between time and space. We don’t know where one begins and the other stops. So that most of the arts we think of as being in time, and most of the arts we think of being in space. More…
My hometown houses the Museum of the Rockies with “one of the finest paleontology collections in North America.” Several dinosaur diggers are frens of mine.
So was happy to hear their career glorified on They Might Be Giants new double kids CD/DVD Here Comes Science. The song is “I Am a Paleontologist (with Danny Weinkauf)” (2:32 mp3):
Another TMBG sci-song: “Electric Car”
They Might Be Giants (vocals: Robin Goldwasser)
via Some Velvet Blog.
The band The Gregory Brothers are turning newscasters, pundits and politicians into “unintentional” pop-singers by auto-tuning their spoken voices into sung melodies. Their “Auto-Tune the News” series are videos on YouTube and songs on Amie Street.
Michael and Evan Gregory tell us about artificially (art-officially?) interacting with the media’s talking heads. Aired on PRI Studio 360; by producer Barrett Golding, “Auto-Tuned News (edit)” (6:26 mp3):
S360 was a bit time-constrained, so couldn’t present the whole piece, including the G-Bros series Songified History (free d/l at Amie Street), w/ JFK, MLK, & Churchill. Here’s the full vers…
The Books from The Lemon of Pink, “Take Time:”