Links of Note

Places to go when I get stuck.

Earth sound

Earthquake Quartet for Voice, Trombone, Cello, and Seismograms (Andrew Michael)
The Golden Record ~ The sounds of Earth, now traveling into deep space aboard the Voyager spacecraft
The Infrasound Zoo ~ time-accelerated recordings of the solid earth, the atmosphere, and the ocean from the University of Hawaii’s Infrasound Laboratory
The Sounds of Space ~ a podcast (“Jodcast”) from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics that includes a delicious sampler of sounds from outer space
Listen to a live volcano (Celso Reyes) ~ time-accelerated recordings of Aleutian volcanoes in near-real-time
Listening to Earthquakes (Andy Michael & Daniel Ross) ~ a nice introduction on how to listen to seismic data
One Square Inch of Silence (Olympic National Park, WA) ~ a sanctuary for silence
The Place Where You Go to Listen (Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK) ~ permanent geophysical sound/visual installation by John Luther Adams
The Sound of Seismic (John N. Louie) ~ examples of high-frequency seismic data converted to audio
Stephen McGreevy ~ pioneer explorer of natural terrestrial radio signals
Weathersongs (Richard Garrett) ~ turning real-time weather data into music
Mark Whittle ~ the sound of the BIG BANG (Listen!)
Wild Sanctuary ~ Bernie Krause’s explorations into the beautiful, fragile world of natural sound

(For more about the technical side of Earth sounds, see my Earthsound Technical Notes.)

Harry Bertoia ~ metallic sound sculptures
Janet Cardiff ~ Forty Part Motet
Earth Ear (Santa Fe, NM) ~ unusual recordings inspired by nature
John Luther Adams ~ musical interpreter of the Alaskan wilderness
Bill Fontana ~ sound sculptor
Leif Inge’s 9 Beet Stretch ~ Beethoven’s 9^th slowed down to fill 24 hours: brilliant, mesmerizing, heart-opening; listen now!
Macaulay Library (Cornell University Lab of Ornithology) ~ Archive of animal sounds, including these free bird sounds
Kevin Seaman ~ Sound designer, explorer
New Adventures in Sound Art ~ performances and installations of electroacoustic and experimental sound art.

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) ~ archivist of dreams
Joe Davis ~ audio microsocope, art embedded in a bacterial genome, broadcasting vaginal contractions to E.T.
Arthur Ganson ~ mechanical magic
Juan Geuer ~ multimedia artist with an ear to the Earth and an eye for Awe
Thomas Heatherwick ~ design
Tim Hawkinson ~ endlessly imaginative mechanical objects
Information Aesthetics ~ form follows data / data visualization & visual design
Chris Jordan ~ large-scale photographs with a large-scale message (see, especially, “Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait”)
James Turrell ~ light sculptor
Keith Tyson
Ruth West
John F. Simon, Jr. ~ “Every Icon” & other art appliances

070204: Éric Desmarais / Soigner son langage at Galerie B-312, Montréal ~ delicious retro-tech electro-mechanical multimedia installation
070204: Julie Miller / (450 Harrison Avenue, Boston) ~ obsessive beauty in colored loops and circles
070204: Jacob El Hanani / Falling Letters (450 Harrison Avenue, Boston) ~ obsessive beauty in minute hash-marks of pencil gray
070204: Ann Wessmann / (Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston) ~ timeless, endless, involuted spiral of collected mussel shells