The positive effects of acoustic treatment in classrooms

 January 23, 2013

Because of poor acoustics, students in classrooms miss 50 percent of what their teachers say. Patients in hospitals have trouble sleeping because they continually feel stressed. Julian Treasure presents a call to action for designers to pay attention to the “invisible architecture” of sound.

Julian Treasure studies sound and advises businesses on how best to use it. He is the chair of the Sound Agency, a firm that advises worldwide businesses -- offices, retailers, hotels -- on how to use sound. He asks us to pay attention to the sounds that surround us... How do they make us feel: productive, stressed, energized, acquisitive? Treasure is the author of the book Sound Business and keeps a blog by the same name that ruminates on aural matters (and offers a nice day-by-day writeup of TEDGlobal 2009). In the early 1980s, Treasure was the drummer for the Fall-influenced band Transmitters.

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Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_why_architects_need_to_use_their_ears.html


Dirty Projectors unplugged at WNYC

 January 22, 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSZ-yjuTCa4&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]

You can listen to the entire 30 minute performance here...

The band performs three songs, "Here 'Til I'm Not" (from the new EP About to Die), "Dance For You" and "Impregnable Question" (both from Swing Lo Magellan).

You can read more about Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan, and their unplugged performance at WNYC, an NPR station, here... http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/jan/08/dirty-projectors-pushing-boundaries/

Source: http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/jan/08/dirty-projectors-pushing-boundaries/


Feedback Organ

 January 05, 2013

The concept of a feedback organ is nothing new, but I really like the way that this performer uses hand motions to bend the pitch.

The Feedback Organ from Neptune on Vimeo.

This video is a brief introduction to an instrument called "The Feedback Organ." Built by J. S. Sanford, the instrument can be heard on Neptune's recent record, "msg rcvd," available from the record label, Northern Spy.

Here is a video of Lesley Flanigan playing a feedback instrument that she calls The Speaker Synth

Here are some other feedback organs.
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