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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

This is the original. 
https://soundcloud.com/sonicwonderland/sonic-wonderland-worlds

I knew I wouldn't be happy until I could hear it backwards.  So here it is!
(original article where I found this http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/now-weve-heard-it-all-acoustic-scientists-shatter-the-world-record-for-longest-ever-echo-9062134.html)

World's Longest Echo - BACKWARDS

self-generating long ambient cascading drones using the Serge Modular Music System for the drones and Ableton Live for "endless" reverb. . .

Cascades

Feel - Nalepa + William Arcane

all Serge analog synth: self-generating patch

Serge Steppin'

This was a live practice run in the studio with the Serge modular patch I developed my performance at the Serge 40th Reunion in San Francisco.  Dedicated to the genius synthesizer designer, Serge Tcherepnin.

For Serge

I just stumbled onto this amazing Serge feedback patch by Rastko Lazic:
https://vimeo.com/53348028
It is extremely volatile, expressive and wonderous.  This is my humble homage to Rastko's genius -- recorded in a single pass in real time just using three knobs and Rastko's patch

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A multifaceted character and producer, it's no surprise Luke Vibert's Worldwide Mixtape races through genres, from jazz, leftfield electronic, easy listening and funk. Listen to the extended hour-long selection below.

Tracklist: http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/wws-guest-mix/gpww-947-luke-vibert/

Kerrier District - 4 LP is out now on Hypercolour

Photo credit Theo Cottle: http://www.theocottle.com/

Tracklist

Luke Vibert Mix on Gilles Peterson Worldwide (GPWW947)

Als Eco (CO)
Grand Reportage Ensemble (CH) 
Size (composición y electrónica)
Grabaciones de campo: Antonio Correa
Ingeniero de sonido: Diego Franco


Corcheas Hamponas (Size Version)

Wormhole

Setlist: http://stadiumsandshrines.com/?p=15850
[0:00 - 01:31:50] - @johnny_ripper mix
[01:31:50 - end] - @nada-v live performance

S&S Radio - E37: johnny_ripper Mix & Nadia Live

"this looks just like it, the answer to my prayers - I thought my life was over until two years later I arrived"

Ceramic TL - This Looks Just Like It, The Answer To My Prayers - I Thought My Life...

The finished piece from my previous Hordijk Sketch.  Multi-tracked, musique concrete style editing. Headphones highly recommended or studio monitors cranked up.

Hordijk Phantasma

A companion piece to my first Hordijk Phantasma. Headphones or studio monitors recommended.

Hordijk Phantasma ii

This is a demonstration of using the Dual Fader as a panner to produce some nice spatial effects.  No outboard effects just three layered tracks with internal panning via the Dual Fader. Headphones or monitors recommended.

Hordijk DualFader Panning

A completely self-generating patch (no knob touching).  A symbiosis between a Hordijk and Buchla analog modular systems.

Hordijk-Buchla Aleatoric Counterpoint

see the live knob tweaking here: https://youtu.be/LtDNBGmfv-U


Hordijk TwinPeak-Env Play

A live performance by Andrew Brown and Toby Gifford at the Serial Space in Sydney, Australia on 21 April 2012, following the Hack-Together workshop where we built the interactive system used in this piece from scratch in Max, with a healthy dose of Javascript.

The work is for live performer (Andrew) and a responsive computer system that listens to the live performance then responds by storing, transforming and replaying fragments of the heard performance in imitative and complimentary ways on three different synthesized sounds.

Serial Space Interactive Performance

This is a vintage recording of an interactive/self-generating patch I created back in the early 1980's. The units are: Serge, JP-8 & Effectron II. I would put the JP-8 arpeggiator in hold mode then play 5 notes which then would cycle randomly.  The Serge controlled the arpeggiator triggering, the JP-8 controlled the varying delays on the Effectron, etc.  It was always fun to enter notes in the morning and see what it sounded like when I came home from work.

exponential space

composer, performer, lecturer and analog synthesist who is endlessly fascinated by and exploring sound...

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