Doppler effect

The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift), named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who proposed it in 1842 in Prague, is the change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for an observer moving relative to its source. It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer. The received frequency is higher (compared to the emitted frequency) during the approach, it is identical at the instant of passing by, and it is lower during the recession.

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect

Physics of sound

Program: Nature of Things with David Suzuki.
Chapter: Voices in the wind.
Topic: Physics of sound.

Quodlibet

Emmanuel Nunes, compositor português. "Ao longo da sua obra três elementos emergem como referências fundamentais: a reflexão sobre o tempo, a atenção dada ao espaço, e a ideia omnipresente de intencionalidade, tanto da escuta como da composição."

acoustic levitation

Deixo um vídeo que exemplifica um fenómeno físico chamado "levitação acústica", que tem sido desenvolvido no Argonne National Laboratory. Neste caso, fazem levitar gotas de soluções farmacêuticas entre um campo de ondas sonoras, o que pode levar à descoberta de novas drogas ou substâncias. Já se tentou também com pequenos insectos ou outros pequenos objectos. Como qualquer descoberta do género, há já toda uma série de teorias "da conspiração", ou não, sobre como se contruiam templos no antigo Egipto e como se conseguiam transportar tão pesadas pedras, ou também sobre como os monges tibetanos conseguiam levitar.
Se quiserem aprender mais, aqui fica: http://www.anl.gov/articles/no-magic-show-real-world-levitation-inspire-better-pharmaceuticals

Your Face

Bill Plymton curta "For this one, he contacted Maureen McElheron, an old friend with whom he had performed in a Country Western Band (he played pedal steel guitar), and she agreed to score "Your Face." Due to budgetary considerations, she also sang. Her voice, eerily decelerated to sound more masculine, combined with a fantastically contorting visage helped garner the film a 1988 Oscar nomination for best animated short."

Instalações Sonoras Zimoun

Deixo-vos com um video do trabalho do artista Zimoun.

http://vimeo.com/32012831

Atendimento

Informo todos os alunos que esta quarta-feira à tarde (28/11) estarei disponível para atendimento mediante marcação prévia por email.

Instrumental (Apartment Objects) - Flight Of The Conchords

Sampled Room

Sampled Room from Mateusz Zdziebko on Vimeo.

"This is an example, how to use the basic stuff in your room in such creative and musician way. Just take some noisy and voiced objects and record them with any sampler."

THE EXTERNAL WORLD

The Evolution of 8-Bit Art

Music for your 8bit adventure

music for your 8bit adventure through spacetime from fuckitfireeverything on 8tracks Radio.

"The Future of Music: Credo" by John Cage

Most inventors of electrical musical instruments have attempted to imitate eighteenth- and nineteenth- century instruments, just as early automobile designers copied the carriage. The Novachord and the Solovox are examples of this desire to imitate the past rather than construct the future. When Theremin provided an instrument with genuinely new possibilities, Thereministes did their utmost to make the instrument sound like some old instrument, giving It a sickeningly sweet vibrato, and performing upon it, with difficulty, masterpieces from the past. Although the instrument is capable of a wide variety of sound qualities, obtained by the turning of a dial, Thereministes act as censors, giving the public those sounds they think the public will like. We are shielded from new sound experiences.

At http://helios.hampshire.edu/~hacu123/papers/cage.html

Beatsurfing - The Organic MIDI Controller Builder - Official Teaser

BEATSURFING - THE ORGANIC MIDI CONTROLLER BUILDER
beatsurfing.net

It allows you to draw a 3-dimensional controller and use it in two different and complementary ways. You can tap it like you would with your regular MPC or any other beatmaking device, but the best and most innovative use you can make of it is definitely by surfing your fingers along routes, colliding with objects, triggering samples or effects. It’s all about movement, and bringing back this intuitive way to make music.

It can control any MIDI-enabled device (Software, Hardware, or even selected iPad apps through Virtual MIDI), features a very intuitive in-app editing system and integrates seemlessly in any existing Studio or Live setup.

Objects Behaviours can be set to link objects together and multiply the available commands on the surface of the iPad.

Look at me now (kinetic typography)