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FabricmachineMay 23, 2010
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.
Richie Hawtin on Music TechnologyMay 22, 2010
LinnStrument – Musical Instrument Concept by Roger LinnMay 21, 2010
Roger Linn (who designed the LinnDrum way back in the day) demonstrates his new multitouch instrument prototype:
My particular interest is in a new instrument that while capable of entirely new sounds and playing techniques, is also able to reproduce the sounds, virtuosic performance capabilities and subtleties that we’ve come to know and love from traditional musical instruments, but without all their problems and limitations.
Learn more about the LinnStrument at Roger Linn Design
Internal Sounds of InsectsMay 20, 2010
From Discovery News:
If you cover your ears with your hands, you can listen to your heartbeat and some of the other internal buzz and hum that goes on inside of your body. These are familiar sounds to all of us. For the first time, however, scientists have just recorded sounds emanating from inside living insects, such as flies, mosquitoes and ladybugs.
Igor Sokolov and his team at Clarkson University managed this feat using atomic force microscopy, a very sensitive tool that’s popular now in nanotechnology. It records sub-nano oscillations of very faint noises, less than the amplitude size of a single atom and at incredibly high frequencies—up to 1,000 hertz or cycles per second.
Similar to using a stethoscope, the researchers placed a probe for this device on top of each bug to capture the recordings.
Listen to the insects:
Read the full article at Discovery News