Fabricmachine is a sound installation by Kathrin Stumreich.
Two fabric loops, driven by a motor, create a division in space. Light sensors measure the opacity of the textile. The way all pieces are sewed together for a fabric sound track is responsible for beats, breaks and rhythms.
Electrical What?! is a very nice new reference site that makes it easier to decipher schematic symbols.
WHAT IS ELECTRICALWHAT?! Frustrated by the difficulty of searching schematic symbols through long lists with little information led to the creation of Electrical What !?, a database of electronic components. Electrical What !? displays all electronic components in a easily scanable and cataloged format. However what truly sets Electrical What !? apart from your average reference book is the ability to search by appearance. Using these tools Electrical What !? hopes to make looking for electronic symbols a breeze.
RadioShackCatalogs.com is an archive of every Radio Shack catalog published from 1939 to 2005. Awesome.
Homer Simpson: “We’ll search out every place a sick twisted solitary misfit might run to.”
Lisa Simpson: “I’ll start with Radio Shack.”
Motherboard.tv profiles University of Toronto professor and inventor Steve Mann.
For this episode, Steve volunteered to be both guest and host, using his human/cyborg first-person perspective to show us his studio, talk about his past inventions, and ask members of the circus to play the latest of his inventions: the hydraulophone, a highly tactile and mellifluous water-based instrument that Steve hopes can offer the blind and deaf a new method of music-creation.
No Input is a short documentary about noise music from Marc Schreibman at the State University of New York at New Paltz.