“Radius Music combines ideas of cartography and graphic scores as a means to produce sound.
The device itself is an autonomous revolving machine that reads a distance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it takes this radial distance and outputs it as a relative sonic frequency and a corresponding visual score.”
by Dave Young
Mass Black Implosion (The Immovable Do, Percy Grainger) 2008
ink on archival facsimile of score
drawings for 0_King variations
2004
10 ink drawings on drafting film
31.5 x 31.5cm each, (80 x 60cm framed)
by mogens jacobsen 2005
“TurntablistPC is a server which third-party websites can access. A small file is hosted on the TurntablistPC. Subscribing websites place a short piece of code on their pages. This code sends information to the TurntablistPC. When somebody visits one of the subscribing websites, the TurntablistPC spins the record.
Control is remote and hidden. But output – audio – is local only (through speakers in the TurntablistPC).
The location of the remote website controls the direction of the spin. If the website is located east of the TurntablistPC, it spins clockwise. If it is located west of the TurntablistPC, the spin is counterclockwise.
The distance to the visiting user determines the amount of spin. If you are near the TurntablistPC, you will only scratch the vinyl. If you are far away, it will play a whole section of the record.”
A crop circle measuring some 300 feet diameter has appeared in a field of oil seed rape near Wilton Windmill in Wiltshire. Lucy Pringle, crop circle researcher and author said: “I believe it contains binary. Working from the centre outwards, people are suggesting it has a connection to Leonhard Euler’s theorem e^(i)pi+1=0 which is thought to be one of the most beautiful theorems in mathematics. Historically over the years, crop circles have been associated with diatonic scales (white notes on the piano). These diatonic scale frequencies are encoded in each segment of the crop circle and can be played on the piano. This is a unique formation incorporating both music and mathematics and is similar in importance to the famous 2008 Barbury Castle Pi event” (Telegraph)
I’m pretty sure this would make a sick beat: 8 tracks.
I have been making turntable based drum machines using this method.
A simple ambient musicbox, with sounds generated using the orbital frequencies of our solar system.
here
By Luke Twyman, Whitevinyl
In August 1976 at the Personal Computing show in Atlantic City, Bob Marsh of Processor Technology approached Bob Jones, the publisher of Interface Age magazine, about pressing software onto vinyl records.
The idea was to record the program on audio tape in the “Kansas City Standard” format then make a master record from the tape. Eva-Tone made “sound sheets” on thin vinyl that would hold one song.[7] These were inexpensive and could be bound in a magazine.
The May 1977 issue of Interface Age contained the first “Floppy-ROM”, a 33⅓ RPM record with about 6 minutes of “Kansas City standard” audio.
From wikipedia
