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Sound & Fury: Motorcycle & Instrument Designers Switch Roles

31 Mar

[ By Steph in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ]

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How would someone who designs motorcycles for a living approach creating a kit of drums, and vice versa? Yamaha’s Project AH A MAY explores that question, swapping the roles of designers in very different fields to produce the kinds of creative epiphanies that can only occur when taking a truly fresh look at a subject.

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The RAIJIN God of the Thunder Drums, for example, seat the performer inside a cage, surrounding them with drum surfaces in a nearly-full sphere. This puts the musician in the driver’s seat metaphorically, and encourages them to have an even more physical interaction with their instrument. The same goes for FUJIN God of the Wind, a marimba that has two people playing at once as if they’re sitting on a two-seater motorcycle.

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Meanwhile, the ROOT motorcycle design is incredibly sleek, with brass parts contrasting against a whole lot of matte black. The flowing seat form runs from the front all the way to the fuel tank, with instrument panels and meters hidden underneath so the driver is fully focused on the experience of riding and watching the scenery.

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The Zero Plus/Minus Zero electric bicycle fits into a very musical-looking charging stand; to juice it up, you simply pedal. The energized battery can then be used to power all sorts of electronic gadgets around the house – including musical instruments.

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Musical instruments come in all shapes and sizes. This impressive creation was made using normal objects like buckets and string, but it sounds amazing.
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The Stunning Instrument That Sounds Like an Orchestra

Stringed instruments have been in use since antiquity. There has never been one as breathtaking as the Wheelharp, which sounds like an entire orchestra.
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The Shape of Sound: New Orleans Village Made of Music

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Sensory Reading Experience Integrates Touch and Sound

06 Feb

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Some might say that if you aren’t experiencing the atmosphere of a story while you’re reading, the author hasn’t done her job. But we’ve all read a book that we loved so much, we wished we could experience more of it, feel as if we were actually a part of the story as it was happening. That’s now possible with ‘Sensory Fiction,’ a digitally-augmented prototype book that comes with a sense-stimulating harness that’ll squeeze you or change your body temperature at the right moments.

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Much like 4D films, which let you feel and smell the plot with moving seats and other sensory experiences, ‘Sensory Fiction’ makes the body a more active part of the process of taking in a story. Created by students at the MIT Media Lab for a class called ‘Science Fiction to Science Fabrication,’ the book and harness set aims to bring more excitement to the average written story.

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It works through a combination of networked sensors and actuators. The book senses which page the reader is on to flash LED lights or play certain sounds that go along with that part of the plot. Meanwhile, the wearable component senses the reader’s heart rate and offers a gentle squeeze, vibration, changing temperatures and other forms of physical feedback.

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The story selected for the prototype, ‘The Girl Who Was Plugged In’ by James Tiptree, was chosen because it showcases a wide range of emotions in a variety of environments, providing lots of opportunities for those sensory ‘extras.’ Can you imagine wearing one of these while reading a particularly scary horror story?

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Touch input has already almost entirely eliminated the need for physical keyboards and mouses, but soon, it won’t even be confined to a screen. …
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Space-Age Home: 5 Futuristic Sensory Appliances

Futuristic home gadgets that scan your hand to make your ideal cup of coffee, iron clothes without heat while you’re wearing them and mix the perfect cocktail.
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Gripping Book Art: 31 Sculptures Worth Reading About

Society is in a digital age and paper books are being left behind. Artists are fighting the tide by bringing books into their own as gorgeous works of art.
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Sound in Sand: Complex Visualizations of Audio Frequencies

07 Jun

[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

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Grains of sand arrange themselves into complex geometric patterns according to audio frequencies in these fascinating resonance experiments by Youtube user Brusspup. The sand is sprinkled onto a black metal plate attached to a tone generator, which emits a series of increasing frequencies. The higher the frequencies, the more intricate the designs become.

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This experiment is based on the Chiadni plate, invented by German physicist Ernst Chiadni in the 18th century. Chiadni used a violin bow along the edge of a glass plate covered with sand to create visualizations of sound. The plate is divided into regions vibrating in opposite directions, bounded by lines of zero vibration called nodal lines.

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The plate was bowed until it reached resonance, at which point the vibration causes the sand to concentrate along the nodal lines where the surface is still. This technique is still used in the design and construction of acoustic instruments like violins and guitars.

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Brusspup often experiments with the intersection of science and art. Previous projects have included running water through sound waves to produce incredible zig-zagging shapes, and a sound-based camera trick that makes water appear to travel backwards.

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SoundTank: Mobile Sound System or Armored Vehicle?

28 May

[ By Steph in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ]

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You might think twice about approaching a neighbor to turn down their loud music if it were emanating from the SoundTank, a mobile audio system by Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak. The imposing sound system was made using an old Japanese miniature tracked dumper as a base. Nowak added four tweeters, six 12-inch drivers, and three 8-inch subwoofers, in addition to other audio components, as well as a faceted exterior full of speakers.

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‘Panzer’, which means tank in German, is capable of booming 4,000 watts of sound from its strategically designed array of speakers, and it has a hydraulic cover that flips up with the touch of a button. It’s also equipped with a drum machine, mixer and synthesizer.

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Nowak focused on electronic music during his art studies, and composes music that consists only of low-pitched tones. With the SoundTank, the artist was looking to create an extra-loud system for outdoor performances that can handle a particular frequency spectrum. Performances at festivals and other venues showed off the tank’s capabilities.

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10fps Shutter sound of Canon 1D MK3

14 Feb

10fps Shutter sound of Canon 1D MK3
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Nikon D7000 Shutter sound and Speed

23 Dec

The D7000 replaces the old D300 and the D90, at a lower price for even higher technical and ergonomic performance. with Dual sdhc card slots 🙂 some features: 16.2 megapixels 6 fps continuous shooting 39 AF points ISO: 100-25600 Video: 720p,1080p
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I was originally working on some footage for a new time lapse video, but due to time constrains and weather I wasn’t able to complete the video on time. However, using some of my old footage i decided to mix things up a bit and make star trail time lapses out of it. (there is also some new footage in here as well) to get this effect I added the “trails” filter in Final Cut Pro 7. This video took well over 30hrs to edit, render and export, Even with my Quad-Core i7 iMac!!! All the clips shown here were shot between October 2010 and November 2011. Camera: Canon EOS 5D MK II Lens’: Canon 15mm f2.8 fisheye, Canon 16-35mm L F2.8 II, Tokina 16-28mm f2.8. 30 second exposures, ISO 3200, White Balance: 3500-4500K Music: “Sliver Of Evidence” Simon Wilkinson www.thebluemask.com Thanks For Watching!!!! Like, Favorite, Subscribe!
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Using Sound Triggers

23 Dec

This Tutorial shows you how to use ControlMyNikon’s Sound Trigger to capture images when a sound is detected with a microphone. ControlMyNikon allows you to remotely control your Nikon DSLR with your PC. For more information, check out www.controlmyikon.com
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Upgrade your sound and wirelessly link up your ZiiSound Wireless Modular Speakers – Part 3

24 Nov

Learn how to wirelessly pair your ZiiSound Wireless Modular Speakers to create your ultimate wireless speaker system! Learn more: www.creative.com
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Self Presentation stopmotion video for a sound designer (by Dom Bower)

17 Nov

in this video i show you a recent job i had for making a 3 minute presentation for a sound designer. we did it in stopmotion 4-8fps and edited in windows movie maker. its difficult to describe so best just watch it. photos taken with the nikon d300 and various lenses (50mm f1.4. 18-200vr, 10.5 fisheye all photos copyright of dom bower www.dombower.com
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Sound of the Earth: Vinyl Globe Plays Music of the World

24 Oct

[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

This is more than just a model of the globe: it’s a spherical record player that will produce the sounds of a particular region when spun. The Sound of the Earth by Yuri Suzuki is just one of the designer’s incredibly innovative sonic products and installations. Suzuki spent four years traveling the world to collect samples of folk songs, national anthems and other audio.

Referring to the globe as ‘an aural journey around the world in 30 minutes,’ Suzuki explains that he wanted to bring all of the music of his travels together in one place.

Other projects include Barcode Book, which tells a story through illustrations made with bar codes, which are scanned with a hand-held reader, and Sound Taxi. The latter project is a vintage taxi equipped with a microphone that records urban sounds like traffic, sirens and construction work, and uses them to generate unique music in real time, which is played via 67 built-in speakers and big, shiny Indian horns mounted on the roof and hood.

“A few years ago my hard drive crashed and I lost my entire 500GB music collection,” Suzuki told The Guardian. “From then on, music held in physical objects seemed safer.”

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City of Sounds: Scale Model Plays Urban Soundtrack

Every city has its own unique sound, but until now those sounds have been less than musical. This unique project turns the city itself into an instrument.
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