I’ve been meaning to put this up for a while… A little while back now, me and my girlfriend were sitting in her room, when a beautifully intriguing melodic sound came out of nowhere from one of the gardens down our street. Opening the window further, to have a good look around, we just couldn’t [...]
The prolific and informative Epic Sound blog has pushed me on to this new project by the BBC. It’s a great concept and one that could really fit in with the whole spectrum of the BBC’s vast archive of media.
The general idea of it is to have sounds from all across the world, all plotted [...]
Here is another fascinating insight into how sound can affect the physical world. At the weekend I came across a post from the website Science Friday. Using just a metal plate, a bucket of sand and different pitches of a sine wave – all sorts of incredible shapes can form.
Recently, I’ve been getting more interested [...]
I did actually see this quite a while ago now (well, a while ago in the Internet world) but seeing it again today just made me realise it needed to be shared (again).
Chris Supranowitz has been using some magic scientific machinary to inspect vinyl up close. What I have always loved about vinyl is that [...]