#sound technology

[moonthemagical]

when the old mic pack you find at the back of a cupboard that hasn't been used in ten years works great first try >>>>>

[vnetwork]

Listening to Music Through the Sense of Touch

Listening to Music Through the Sense of Touch - Neuroscience News

A pioneering new prototype allows those with hearing loss to "listen" to music through the sense of touch.

[designobjectory]

COLUMBIA DISC GRAPHOPHONE, TYPE "BI," WITH SOLID OAK HORN, 1909

[techied-out]

Lets get Techie

Sorry for not being on my show closed yesterday kinda sad but also relieved asf

Why?

The space we were in made me feel very unwelcome and disrespected as a tech. They treated us as if we didnt know what we were doing and also was quite rude to us the day we left the space

We may be highschool techs but Anti-Tech holds us to uni lighting standards. We know our shit.

So please remeber to treat highschool techs with respect, we all have the same job and it makes us feel like shit when you dont understand that.

Anyways I am headed off to bed. It is currently midnight and im sick again (Caught a cold from an actor)

[mudwerks]

(via retro vintage modern hi-fi: Sound Technology Distortion Analyzer and Stereo Test Panel)

Sound Technology 1200A Stereo Test Panel and 1700B Distortion Measurement System. 

[fionabrennanartist]

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

1974

From the Album “Autobahn”

The 22-minute title track "Autobahn" was edited to 3:27 for single release ... The title track features both untreated and vocoded vocals...Kraftwerk used a Minimoog, an ARP Odyssey, an EMS Synthi AKS and various devices of their own design and implementation, such as their famous electronic drums... (Wikipedia)

Just days after the 1933 Nazi takeover, Adolf Hitler enthusiastically embraced an ambitious autobahn construction project... The propaganda ministry turned the construction of the autobahns into a major media event that attracted international attention... The autobahn was presented to the German public as Hitler's idea...having sketched out the future network of highways while in Landsberg Prison in 1924. (Wikipedia)

The iconic album art for Autobahn may seem stylised to a non-German audience, but the design is simply the sign that is used to mark German roads.

[noiseidentities]

Finished! Defense next week.

It’s done. I will defend my dissertation ‘Noise Resonance. Technological Sound Reproduction and the Logic of Filtering’ next week at a public ceremony at the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam. More info here.

Read a brief abstract of my thesis below, or download the introduction, conclusion and full summary at the UvA-website.

Melle Jan Kromhout - Noise Resonance. Technological Sound Reproduction and the Logic of Filtering - ABSTRACT

What is it about noise that attracted musicians and listeners over the past century? Noise Resonance: Technological Sound Reproduction and the Logic of Filtering sets out to answer this question through an extensive conceptual revaluation of the role of noise and distortion in sound and music. The book traces the issue of noise in a detailed media archaeological analysis of analogue and digital sound technologies.

Noise Resonance does away with the idea that sound reproductions are incomplete copies of some original source and thereby challenges more common conceptualisations that define noise as a marker for failure, violence, excess, transgression or subversion. Instead, on the basis of an assessment of the history of acoustics and the development of sound technology from the nineteenth century onward, it repositions noise as essential for the singular sound of music in the media age.

Noise Resonance shows how noise and distortion, introduced by the operations of technical media, have been fundamental for shaping the specific sound of technologically reproduced music. Drawing from disciplines like musicology, media theory, sound studies and contemporary philosophy, it ultimately suggests a way to rethink the relation between music and listeners in the age of technological media.

[moonthemagical]

another adorable stuffed animal that joined us in the tech booth during show week! this guy is Albie the Aligator who belongs to our microphone operator :)