2 posts tagged “audio”
If you're a frustrated musician with a day-job (like me) enjoy experimenting and have been trying to find ways in which you can still explore musical ideas while at work. Here's one for you:
Goto www.freesound.org click on their search feature and type in a random word. You'll be presented with a webpage full of samples which you can preview. The fun thing is that you can play a whole bunch of them simultaneously. That's where the fun part of it comes in.
I'm sitting at work right now with an earbud from my headphones in my left ear listening to a melee
The 'metal' yielded:
Heavy Metal-overdriven guitar strumming
A sonar-like ambience
A clangy door-shutting
A chiming two-tone doorbell
A sword being removed from it's sheath
A musicbox rendition of Happy Birthday
A tibetan bell.
It's basically a collection of essays from notable musicians/composers/music theorists which give a broad overview of the different aspects of 'Audio Culture'. How the ways in which we listen to, consume, create, conceptualise music have changed.
Much of it is interesting but I was particularly taken by an included article written by Marshall McLuhan. Hadn't been aware of his writings prior so am quite keen to purchase some of his work to explore it a bit more. His ideas about the development/evolution of Western wo/man's consciousness as a result of our move from Oral/Aural tradition to a Written/Text based one are quite fascinating.
Read some of the comments at the bottom of the Amazon web page if you're interested.
