Category Archives: Sound

Philip K. Dick on Music

Posted on November 24, 2011 by admin

Music is normally a temporal process, but Beethoven, uniquely, uses it to enclose space, the most vast volume of space possible. Thus Beethoven literally expanded the hologram for anyone understanding his music, and he was part of a historic movement … Continue reading →

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How Music May Help Ward Off Hearing Loss As We Age

Posted on August 29, 2011 by admin

Older people often have difficulty understanding conversation in a crowd. Like everything else, our hearing deteriorates as we age. There are physiological reasons for this decline: We lose tiny hair cells that pave the way for sound to reach our … Continue reading →

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Tool: Arc Attack’s Singing Tesla Coil Emulator

Posted on August 21, 2011 by admin

Arc Attack offers a Singing Tesla Coil Emulator on their website. It also promises the possibility of seeing a VST version of these pitched Arcs at somepoint.

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Device Lets You See With Your Ears

Posted on August 20, 2011 by admin

A new device that links spy glasses, a webcam and a smart phone could make it easier for blind people to “see” shapes by converting visual signals to auditory ones and sending them to another part of the brain. Its … Continue reading →

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Dial-up modem sound slowed down.

Posted on August 20, 2011 by admin

I’m not a big fan of the slowed down sound trend but information is beautiful and hides art we often overlook within it’s patterns.

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Scientists drag light by slowing it to speed of sound

Posted on August 15, 2011 by admin

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have, for the first time, been able to drag light by slowing it down to the speed of sound and sending it through a rotating crystal. Most people may think the speed of light … Continue reading →

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Feel the Noise: Touch, Hearing May Share Neurological Roots

Posted on July 27, 2011 by admin

About a year and a half after her stroke, a 36-year-old professor started to feel sounds. A radio announcer’s voice made her tingle. Background noise in a plane felt physically uncomfortable. Now Tony Ro, a neuroscientist at the City College … Continue reading →

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Sounds of Japan Earthquake and Aftershocks from Underwater Observatories

Posted on July 27, 2011 by admin

The Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB), a unit of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), directed by Professor Michel André, has recorded the sound of the earthquake that shook Japan on Friday, March 11. The recording, now available online, was … Continue reading →

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Augmented instruments add virtual input to live music

Posted on July 27, 2011 by admin

They look like just another three-piece band, with drums, violin and guitar. But stop and listen to Edgar Berdahl and his colleagues, and you’ll notice things aren’t quite what they seem. Strange tones emerge from their instruments, sometimes without any … Continue reading →

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Does coffee make you hear things?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by admin

Scholars at Australia’s La Trobe University just released a study showing a correlation between caffeine intake and auditory hallucinations. In layman’s terms: Lots of coffee might make you more likely to hear things that aren’t there. Researchers came to the … Continue reading →

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