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Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford and author of Sonic Wonderland, has discovered the world record for the ‘Longest Echo’. The 1970 Guinness Book of Records is the last claim for the ‘longest echo’, when the solid-bronze doors of the Hamilton Mausoleum in Scotland slammed shut, it took 15 seconds for the sound to die away to silence. In researching his new book Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound Trevor Cox discovered a place where the sound echoes around for a full minute longer, smashing the previous record.

Trevor Cox travelled to the oil storage complex at Inchindown, near Invergordon, Scotland. These reservoirs supplied the naval anchorage in the Cromarty Firth at the bottom of the hill. The tanks were constructed in great secrecy amid concerns about the strengthening of Germany’s armed forces during the 1930s and the threat posed by long-range bombers, which is why the tanks were dug deep into the hillside. The vast complex took three years to complete. His guide was Allan Kilpatrick, an archaeological investigator for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

Trevor had to enter the tank through one of the 18 inch diameter oil pipes because there are no doors. The tank could hold 25.5 million litres of fuel and has walls 45cm thick. The space is about twice the length of a football pitch, 9m wide and 13.5 metres high.

Allan fired a pistol loaded with blanks about a third of the way into the storage tank, and Trevor recorded the response picked up by the microphones about a third of the way from the far end. This is a standard technique used in concert hall acoustics; old black-and-white photographs show a gun being fired on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall when they tested the acoustics back in the 1950s.

Sonic Wonderland - World's Longest Echo

The first of three tracks created through Splice's Crowdsplicing project: https://splice.com/blog/crowdsplicing-final-tracks/

Check out the DNA Player on Splice:
https://splice.com/Crowdsplicer/zanzibar

Collaborators:
duckhunter, m3t1,mikhail, m4m, samcox, paulzzz, 5ammusic, juronomo, laserkraft3d, mynameistom, zaktt, viceversa, rollog, meckanical, martintime, andrewlngdn, nuance, colorthought, sebkon, thinkingthing, LeglessBoxer, Beluga, aukie, killerkrazzy, Reez and mussarmusic

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Zanzibar

The last of three tracks created through Splice's Crowdsplicing project: splice.com/blog/crowdsplicing-final-tracks/

Check out the DNA Player on Splice:
splice.com/Crowdsplicer/eclipse

Collaborators:
duckhunter, m3t1,mikhail, m4m, samcox, paulzzz, 5ammusic, juronomo, laserkraft3d, mynameistom, zaktt, viceversa, rollog, meckanical, martintime, andrewlngdn, nuance, colorthought, sebkon, thinkingthing, LeglessBoxer, Beluga, aukie, killerkrazzy, Reez and mussarmusic

Eclipse

One of three tracks produced by participants of Splice's Crowdsplicing project: https://splice.com/blog/crowdsplicing-final-tracks/

Check out the DNA Player on Splice: https://splice.com/Crowdsplicer/fire--ice

Collaborators:
Duncan, Nebyoolae, Bastorama, Lucretive, Toddoli, Sevanmusic, Frost_99, Dfriedla, Moonlapse, Stpinkie, Fishintunapuna, and Gogogo757575

Fire & Ice

the classic theme from Tetris, based on a 1860 some russian folk song, which probably makes it public domain by now

Korobeiniki (Tetris theme B) - Muzik 4 Machines - Live Q3 2009

3 newish songs chained together
  the wand maker
  3rd party
  and the tetris theme (Korobeiniki)

The 3rd Wand Tetris Party(20 minutes mini live set) - Muzik 4 machines

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Muzik 4 machines is a live electronic music project from Quebec, Canada. Performing live with hardware synthesizers, using no pre-recorded sound or backing tracks, he creates a plethora of sounds ranging from electro to drum and bass, always with the same minimalist modus operandi; Distorted analog and punchy sampled drums, a few monophonic synths a couple of samplers, lots of effects and constant sonic mangling and tweaking.
	
 
It all began in 1991 with a Portastudio, a guitar and a TR-707 drum machine; early compositions were a mix between early house and grunge music, mixing the 4 on the floor rhythm with loud fuzz guitar. As the technology evolved, so did the Project; recruiting performers and signers and buying, finding or building new gadgets and sound mangling devices. When computer became powerful enough to generate and process sound, a new page of M4M history started.
 
The Music also evolved from simple riffs over a steady beat to more complex and mysterious texture in some works and at the same time exploded into Rave party music in others. They got some good charts apparition online and even sold Cd's worldwide on the then underground mp3.com website that since closed.
 

Back to minimal electro house, Muzik 4 Machines is now producing new material, performing it live, and distributing it via bit torrent, youtube and a multitude of online music stores from around the world (iTunes, Amazon)



gear used live

AKAI APC40: Ableton live control

Ableton Live on MacBook Pro 1.1: Sequencing and Mixing

MOTU Traveler+ADA8000: Mixer

Korg ESX1: Drums

Yamaha TX81z: Reverby/Pumpy Sawtooth Bass (chain:TX81z-Boss V-Wha-Akai MFC42-DBX266 ch2 (Compression/distortion)-Alesis Nanoverb-DBX266 ch1 (pump)--Mixer)

Roland MKS50: Hoover/Saw/Lead/Pumpy Synth (Chain MKS50-DBX266-Boss SL20-Zoom RFX2200-Mixer)

Clavia Nord Micro Modular: Synth, bass, arpegios, pads, chords

Electro Harmonix V256: Vocoder and talkbox (with MXR Dist+ and danelectro Rocky Road  on the synth signal line)

Korg Kaoss pad 2: Tempo Delay

Korg Kaoss Pad 3: Loops, Looper(snare rolls), Grainshifter

Korg Kaossilator: Noise Sweeps (path: K01-Mini KP(Delay))

Korg ER1: 	Distorted Beatbox( Chain: left out-ProCo Turbo Rat-V Wha-compressor-DD5)

DX200:		 Fm E-piano, pads, 303-esque sequences, etc (Chain: Left Out-Boss DD5 delay-Mixer)
			
MOTU MIDI Mixer 7s: Kaossilator and iKaossilator Submix

MOTU Midi Time Piece 2: Clock and MIDI routing 


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iTunes: http://bit.ly/fB0L9V  
Store: http://muzik4machines.com/store
International Booking Agent: Luc De Bouvries luc@slfa.com 514-983-4457 S.L. Feldman & Associates 
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Podcast: http://muzik4machines.com/2ztc7w  
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