Homemade "quick and dirty" record disc-cutting lathe

World Health Organizaton: Noise and health

Noise seriously harms human health and interferes with people’s daily activities at school, at work, at home and during leisure time. Traffic noise alone is harming today the health of almost every third European.

AURORAL ACOUSTICS

Study of Sounds & Acoustical Effects Related to
Geomagnetic Storms and Aurora Borealis

Favorite Recorded Scream: at last, a record that’s really worth shouting about

The result, available on a 12-inch LP simply entitled Favorite Recorded Scream, is a superb marriage of concept and execution, as meticulous a deconstruction and re-examination of pop music’s formal elements as anything that has recently emerged from the world of sound art.

Construction of Radio Equipment in a Japanese POW Camp

Transcript of a recording by Lieutenant Colonel R G Wells, on the construction of radio equipment whilst in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp after the fall of Singapore.

Listen to Africa

Recordings of rural and urban soundscapes made during our 24,000 kilometre bicycle expedition across the continent.

Drivers to quote Gandhi on Tube

Transport for London has commissioned Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller to compile a list of bon mots to be used by Tube drivers.

Among the quotes on offer will be Gandhi's, "there is more to life than increasing at speed".

Deller hopes they will make commuters' journeys a bit more thought provoking.

Audio Theater

What you will find here is a list of those producing this art form, Sources for finding tapes and cd's, Resources for those who want to try their hand at producing Audio Theater and reviews of current titles.

Have you heard 'the Hum'?

For decades, hundreds of people worldwide have been plagued by an elusive buzzing noise known as "the Hum". Some have blamed gas pipes or power lines, others think their ears are faulty. A few even think sinister forces could be at work.

Sound mirrors

A forerunner of radar, acoustic mirrors were built on the south and northeast coasts of England between about 1916 and the 1930s. The ‘listening ears’ were intended to provide early warning of incoming enemy aircraft.

Jailhouse radio - Louisiana State Prison radio station KLSP (1990)

Out of the small studio in the one-story brick control center building of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, KLSP broadcasts from noon until midnight, seven days a week.

The Encounter between Guattari and Berardi and the Post-Media Era

Felix and Alice in Wonderland: The Encounter between Guattari and Berardi and the Post-Media Era
by Michael Goddard

This is not to say that Guattari’s post-media era has nothing to do with network culture, whose development can certainly be seen to realise and confirm some aspects of the rhizomatic, machinic thought Guattari developed alone and with Gilles Deleuze. Rather this link will be shown to be more complex and to pass via other fields of media experimentation and thought, especially that which emerged around ‘popular free radio’ in Italy in the 1970’s and which was strongly associated with Guattari’s friend Franco Berardi or Bifo.

Tetsuo Kogawa interviews Félix Guattari

Three interviews from 1980-1981 (English and French)

1982 Datsun Voice Warning Box Used Tiny Phonograph Record, Just Like Moon Base Robots

That's when I found an intriguing box labeled "Audible Warning - Don't Drop" under the dash of a 1982 Datsun 810 Maxima.

fieldsepulchra audio blog

This is the home of the fieldsepulchra audio blog. It is a blog of short field recordings of nature and other sounds from around.

THE REAL TOTAL HORN

THE REAL TOTAL HORN has to be seen just following next figures

The Boat that Rocked

THE BOAT THAT ROCKED is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It’s about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, prefers jazz.

In 1966 – British pop music’s finest era – the BBC played just 2 hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio played rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people – over half the population of Britain – listened to the pirates every single day.

Recently expelled from school, Carl (Tom Sturridge) has been sent by his mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather Quentin. However, Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea, populated by an eclectic crew of rock ‘n’ roll DJs.

The Language Construction Kit

This set of webpages is intended for anyone who wants to create artificial languages

International Phonetic Association

The IPA is the major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians. It was established in 1886 in Paris.

The IPA provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages - the International Phonetic Alphabet (also IPA).

Phonetic Alphabet

These are not phonetic alphabets as in those used to guide pronunciation, rather they are a selection of alphabets used, particularly by radio operators, to spell out words.