brusspup on YouTube creates these fascinating patterns called Chladni figures by pouring sand on a metal plate connected to a speaker and tone generator. Different frequencies create different patterns of sand on the plate, higher frequencies creating more complex figures.
A Contraption for Cigars to Play Woodwinds
Contraptions, kinetic sculptures, Rube Goldberg machines... I love this stuff.
Ronald van der Meijs, has brought together two artificial lungs, smokes hand-rolled cigars, and four recorders (a bass flute, alto, tenor, and a soprano) for a sound contraption he calls Play it one more time for me La Ville Fumée in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, once the European capital of Cigar production.
"In the old days the city was full of cigar smoke. There were lots of mechanical parts, steam, noise, and even whistles to start the work in the old cigar factories," Meijs says. "So this installation is in many ways a metaphor for the cigar production of Eindhoven."
4 - Sound Recordings from Around the World
Sound has a special place in our array of senses... often the passage of time is marked by sound (drumbeat, clock tick, cicada, footsteps). So Soundtransit.nl (while almost entirely outmoded by SoundCloud) has in its libraries magical time and space travel technology. Here are some of my favorites.
Flamenco in a park in Sevilla, Espana
Ole Ole at a Football match in San Sebastian
Near Yang-ming Shan in Taipei
Seafood Market in Taiwan
Accordian in Den Hague
Capoeira in the Cape Verde Islands
Music for the Barong Dance in Bali
Midday Prayer in Cairo
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