Posts tagged "noise music"
Is it possible to grow electronic sounds, as if they were plants in a garden? Why are childhood memories of sound and silence so important to our emotional development? Is it valid to classify audio recordings of wind or electrical hum as musical compositions? Why have the sounds of our environment become so important to sound artists and why is atmosphere so important in music? In Haunted Weather, David Toop asks these questions and gauges the impact of new technology on contemporary music’s sound.
future reading. this book looks amazing, and is the source from which i learned about “space weather radio.”
The Air Force Space Surveillance Radar is scanning the skies above Texas. When a meteor or satellite passes over the facility—ping!—there is an echo. Click on the link to listen to a live audio feed.