Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Anti-snoring Pillow
The original patent here has no suitable illustration of its product, so I've taken the liberty of having Copilot conjure up some images. Basically, the pillow would use Active Noise Control to cancel out the snores.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 17, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Sleep and Dreams, Twenty-first Century, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Toshio Matsumoto’s “Mona Lisa”
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 16, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Movies, Psychedelic, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Le Microphone Bien Tempéré
Let us know when you tap out.From the composer's Wikipedia page:
Henry was born in Paris, France,[3] and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music, now called noise music
The rest of the album is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 26, 2024 -
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Category: Music, 1970s, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Into the Stream
Betcha can't watch/listen to the whole thing!The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 16, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Avant Garde, Asia, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Language and Music of the Wolves
Don't play this while your dog is listening!The first video is Redford's speech; the second is the calls.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 03, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Lullaby from the Womb
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 21, 2024 -
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Category: Body, Pregnancy, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Cotton Balls and Cardboard Boxes
Swiss artist Zimoun makes noisy art by causing hundreds of cotton balls to rub against cardboard boxes.At least, he consistently describes the white objects as "cotton balls." They don't look or sound like cotton to me. But then again, they're constantly in motion, so it's hard to see exactly what they are.
via Book of Joe
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 14, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Joe Meek’s “I Hear a New World”
His Wikipedia page.Good long article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 12, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Outsider Art, Twentieth Century, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Experimental Soundscapes of Henry Jacobs
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 09, 2023 -
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Category: Avant Garde, 1950s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Ross Bolleter’s Music for Ruined Pianos
His Wikipedia page.Over the past thirty years Bolleter has explored the timbral possibilities of ruined pianos, as quoted: old pianos that have been exposed to the elements of time and weather thus acquiring novel and unexpected musical possibilities. A piano is ruined (rather than neglected or devastated) when it has been abandoned to all weathers and has become a decaying box of unpredictable dongs, tonks and dedoomps. The notes that do not work are at least as interesting as those that do.
Ross Bolleter has five ruined pianos in his kitchen including the original ruined piano from Nallan Sheep Station, near Cue, 800 km north east of Perth, Western Australia. At Kim Hack's and Penny Mossops's olive farm, Wambyn, near York, Western Australia, Kim Hack and Bolleter developed the Ruined Piano Sanctuary, where some forty pianos are ruining in their own ways, and at their own pace, variously under trees, in dams, and on roofs. Bolleter's CD Frontier Piano, which represents the best of his work from 2007–2014, is almost entirely devoted to recordings of these dying pianos. Each piano in decay is a long-running composition. Death comes to every piano, and dying, each sings a different kind of song.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 28, 2023 -
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Category: Destruction, Music, Avant Garde, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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