Spatial divagations

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Amazing sounds

Field Recordists

Sound art

Born as an original Loreno Brusci - Timet composition (2001) for Graziano Staino's short-movie "The last tears from planet earth" - www.vimeo.com/68834493 
The uploaded version is an extended version (2009) where Lucio Capece plays prepared bass clarinet and soprano saxophone. 
The work in this version has never been previously released.

La Città Rituale (The ritual city)

in early 2000 I started experimenting on symmetrical structures in order to spectrally -ironically- saturate homo-rhythmical forms. On "speed" I made several experiments, this is one of the few I still like. Preot Buxton is still at the vocals, Ares Tavolazzi on prepared double bass.

The Loneliness Of The Short Distance Runner_Provincial Metaphor#1

infrason :: HerzMoskva

P265. 'Just outside the city of Lancaster in California is a soundmark that creates a rendition of Rossini’s ‘William Tell Overture’. Strangely, no electronics are involved. This is a musical road. It creates the melody from wheel vibrations.'

Sonic Wonderland – Musical Road

P105. 'To Chris, the seal calls were mesmerising to listen to because they appeared to be from another planet: ‘It’s almost beyond description. To use lots of clichéd terms, it sounds like a choir of alien angels.’44 The seals make long drawn-out glissandos lasting many tens of seconds. I could do a good impersonation with a Swanee whistle by gradually pulling out the plunger. It seems that longer glissandos are more appealing to females, so length (of call) matters.' © Christopher Clark, Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Sonic Wonderland – Bearded Seals

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

Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford and author of Sonic Wonderland, discovers an amazing effect as he walks through the National Theatre railway station in Oslo, Norway. In the cylindrical booking hall the sound becomes distorted, an effect created by the 'acoustic sculpture' that sits there.

Acoustic Sculpture, National Theatre Station in Oslo, Norway.

Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford and author of Sonic Wonderland, takes the opportunity to play his saxophone within the oil tanks at Inchindown, home of the world's longest echo. You can find out more about the science behind these amazing sounds on his blog here: https://acousticengineering.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/playing-the-worlds-longest-echo/


Playing Sax at Inchindown, home of the world's longest echo

2015-05-03 - Shiba San @ Rock City - EverywhereFestival, Nottingham, Uk

Tokyo To Chiba

Dub techno master Deepchord will release a double album, Ultraviolet Music, on November 27 via Soma Records.

Rod Modell talks to FACT about Detroit's uncertain future, his deep connection to the music of the 1940s, and why he chose "the artist's life": 

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Sonic Wonderland by Trevor Cox. An original and compelling tour of the world's most amazing acoustic phenomena and a passionate plea for a deeper appreciation of and respect for our shared sonic landscapes.

Playing Sax at Inchindown, home of the world's longest echo

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