Check out this submission in LIGHTS - Everybody Breaks A Glass Remix Contest on Indaba Music →
So this guy I know had been doing ~3rd year physics with us but it didn’t seem like he was enjoying the experience that much, so he dropped this semester to experiment seriously with some electronica. This little gem is his first remix.
(I do have to say that the other top ten remixes are quite impressive as well. I wish I could have them all. Give them a listen!)
What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch)
Cute! Also a reminder to myself to synthesize an organ in Audacity.
Finally figured out how to open replies/asks/etc., if communicating to me via Tumblr is of concern to you.
Currently I hear the fridge here, a quiet misty hum, and the almost inaudible whine of my Horace’s fan. There’s an occasional woosh from outside: wet traffic, but sounds like the road is a bit damp, not flooded.
Listening to the Perseids →
Because I’m lazy and the view would be a little disappointing this year due to the full Moon out, I’m listening to this live radar feed instead! “The Air Force Space Surveillance Radar is scanning the skies above Texas. When a meteor or satellite passes over the facility—ping!—there is an echo.”
Very cool, and when you hear one, a bit creepy…analogous to meteor watching, some are little blips (like a grace note. I wish I had perfect pitch, but some of the intervals are close to major or minor thirds) and some are tones like you get from a theremin, with a long fading tail. There’s a lot of mid-high freq background noise as well.
Photo reblogged from Fuck Yeah, Science Major Mouse with 584 notes
Submitted by prologi
“Hmm, or is it 14? I… I better use my $200 calculator to check.”
WOLFRAM|ALPHA THAT FIRST ORDER DIFFERENTIAL YO. If you’re lucky and have lots of time, you don’t have to spend an hour quadruple-checking the coefficients! (Meanwhile, get distracted by tracking the ISS…)
Source: fyeahsciencemajormouse
http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1968 →
That last panel, that is future me!
The Library Tower (after the raid)
I like digital books. A lot. But I can still childishly resist the dismantling of my favourite sanctuary: the transfer of all those dusty old science and math books from MacKimmie Library Block 3B. I can hear clear across the room, the high humming of lights and ventilation. There’s no slam of silence when I walk into another row and I feel only the low frequencies.
Libraries should look full and sound like the very ideas it contains push upon the fabric of spacetime.
Here’s a bit of live coding that you can almost but not quite dance to…the artist uses a “purely functional programming language” as opposed to the conventional “imperative” language. I think this basically lets you control when things execute a lot more finely, and what comes out at the end. Trusted sources inform me that Haskell is hilarious and awesome (‘…it’s designed for dorks…a fact which this video emphasizes’). “Hilarious” I can see, as well as headache inducing…
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]The sound of homemade bread cooling- the crust flakes and makes quiet popping crackling sounds. (Trying not to burn myself was…difficult.)
Etude: Op. 1 No. 2 - Kernel →
(.mp3 format [thank you Audacity], 2MB, 3 minutes 14 seconds)
Get your headphones for this, or something that actually renders bass well.
So I decided to put this June 21/22 version up without going to the media lab and fixing the clicks and hunting for distortions (rawr) and maybe taking out the second section and stretching out the end. (How did the clicks get back into the samples from Op. 1 No. 1? Why do the studios have to be on the other side of campus on top of a parkade and locked at 10pm?)
Oh, and I managed to make this 3:14 long without losing momentum or interesting moments in the piece. I’m quite proud of that. I suppose I could have just done 3.14 minutes (8 seconds after 3) but it was already solidifying. The next version would probably work in Planck’s constant somehow…(this was why I texted some of you so late with a question that non sequitur.)
Sounds used that aren’t from No. 1:
-Heartbeat being a textbook dropped on the table, put through a low pass filter (oops I didn’t put that in the programme notes)
First section:
-PASA door lock, followed by C-train going through the first (loud!) tunnel after the university station
-Robins and other birds shouting at 4 in the morning from my backyard, and the wind/air/distant roar of cars/whatever that airy humming is
Note that the section starts off with a single thump instead of a group of them. (I don’t think that was in the programme notes either. Agh.)
Second section:
-creak of the gate at Lion’s Park being the screech of the bird
-metal heartbeat being from me banging around a random fitness park thing
Third section:
-me humming something at 3 in the morning…where it’s from, I don’t know. Probably Little Bear.
-tick of my pocket watch, with computers in the background
Wiffly waffly programme notes on Google Docs here. (It’s a lot harder to describe something that’s not visual, without me going back to my high school fiction prose writing mode.)
Now to go make goth-industrial techno.
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