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The sound of a tsunami
The indescribably chilling sound, recorded on the ocean bottom, using hydrophones belonging to a group researching undersea volcanism, of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that tore up Eastern Japan in March 2011. The sound has been sped-up 16 times. Lots more … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic. seismic, earthquake, Honshu, hydrophone, Japan, ocean, Pacific, recording, sound, tsunami, undersea, Vents Program, volcanism
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London Sound Survey
Something extraordinary going on here. IM Rawes is building a finely-textured archive of London sounds, published under posterity-friendly licences and with a range of clever ways to access the audio (maps, historic and current, being the main way in). I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged ambient, archive, geolocation, history, London, record, sound, time
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The sound of a Warcraft dungeon
Kindly recorded for me (in binaural ‘headphone mode’) by my thirteen year-old son Oliver. I’ve always been intrigued by the sound of the great battles and quests unfolding on the screen when he’s playing World of Warcraft. So he’s recorded … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, boss, dungeon, game, instance, mob, sound, World of Warcraft
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Adam Bowie’s binaural storm
Adam Bowie is a radio industry exec – Head of Strategy & Planning at Absolute Radio – and evidently a sound junkie. He recorded this lovely storm montage using a pair of binaural headphones/microphones and published it on his blog. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Bowie, binaural, rain, sound, stereo, storm, thunder, weather. climate
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New York sound
Over at Slash Reading it’s New York Week. So, how about some NYC sounds. There are half a dozen minidiscs full of NYC ambient sounds here somewhere but I’m unlikely to liberate them any time soon so, in the meantime, … Continue reading
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Tagged ambient, audio, New York, NYC, NYWEEK, recording, Siemens, Slash Reading, sound, subway, train
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Bull of Heaven
Bull of Heaven, mysterious art group, aspire to the longest performance of all time. This presents all sorts of problems for anyone who wants to host their stuff online since it’s just too big… This track is from 2008 and … Continue reading
The Curious Ear: Winter
A short feature on the classical model. From RTE’s Curious Ear strand (now merged with Doc on One). Podcast, MP3.
What is this thing?
Audiolibre is going to be a blog about (or maybe a blog featuring…) non-copyright audio (or maybe out-of-copyright audio). Not, hopefully, just old recordings that aren’t covered by copyright any more but also the whole wide world of sound that … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, audiolibre, blog, copyleft, copyright, IP, music, recording, rights, song, sound
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