the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1354.html
Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
10/04/2011
Transiting the Sun (2009)
the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1354.html
07/03/2011
Dr Bernie Krause discovers a Singing Cottonwood Tree. (2009)
Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, demonstrates that every living organism produces sound. This presentation focuses on the symbiotic ways in which the sounds of one organism affect and interrelate with other organisms, local and regional, within a given habitat.
Learn about unusual soundscapes and their relevance to preserving natural sounds worldwide. Biophony--the notion that all sounds in undisturbed natural habitats fit into unique niches--will be used to illustrate the ways in which animals taught humans to dance and sing.
watch the full presentation "The Great Animal Orchestra" here
BIO
Bernie Krause
Since 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. Working at the research sites of Jane Goodall (Gombe, Tanzania), Biruta Galdikas (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Karisoke, Rwanda), he identified the concept of biophony (a/k/a The Niche Hypothesis) based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape within a given habitat.
Dr. Krause was Scientific Director (appointed by NOAA) of the operation that rescued Humphrey the humpback whale from the Sacramento Delta (1985) using processed feeding sounds of the same species to lure him to the ocean. Through his company, Wild Sanctuary, he has recorded over 50 natural soundscape CDs, and creates interactive environmental sound sculpture commissions for museums and other public spaces throughout the world.
Utilizing proprietary delivery technology, his sound sculpture commissions can be heard at the American Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC), the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Chicago Science Museum, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (near Mystic, CT), the California Academy of Sciences, the Flint River Center in Albany, Georgia, Natural World Museum (SF), and five new installations at the World Financial Center (NYC opening 6 October 2006). Krause is currently commissioned to prepare a series of tropical and sub-tropical rainforest installations for the new California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park scheduled to open in the Fall of 2008.
During his life as a professional studio musician, he replaced Pete Seeger in the Weavers (1963), and with his late music partner, Paul Beaver, introduced the synthesizer to pop music and film. Their work can be heard on over 250 albums and 135 feature films released between 1967 and 1980
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Pete McPartlan - Procedural Drawing (2009)
"I’ve been making drawings that I call semi-procedural for a while now. “Procedural” meaning there is a fixed rule about how they are made and “semi” to mean that these rules aren’t so fixed - so they’re never written down. The rules only exist as a set of parameters in my head with a vague idea of what the limits are to each parameter." - Pete McPartlan
03/12/2009
YNYS ENLLI - SIEBE-X MIX (2009)
∆ICASEA presents Ynys Enlli's return to the ∆ICASEA SELECT series of podcasts with an involving part 8 titled "SIEBE-X".
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Alternative link to xml feed and mp3's HERE
Tracklisting:
Chris Watson - 3m
David Dunn - Chaos and The Emergent Mind of The Pond
Delia Derbyshire - Dreams
Barry Truax - Wave Edge
Jean Claude Risset - Aqua
Laurie Spiegel - Old Wave
Louis & Bebe Barron - Love at the Swimming Hole
Roland Kayn - Ultra
Douglas Lilburn - Cicada Oscillations and Treefrogs
Brian Eno - Atmospheric Lightness
Dennis Smalley - The Pulses of Time
Wavemaker - Wavemaker
Edgar Froese - Specific Gravity of a Smile
Kryzysztof Penderecki - Flouroscenses
Louis Dufort - Pointe-aux-Trembles
Francis Dhomont - Implosion
Denis Dufour - Ton Corps Est Une Surprise
Christian Zanesi - Stop! L'horizon
Roedelius - Early Blue
Jon Appleton - Degitaru Ongaku
Deep Space Network - Singletone
Lithops - Filterbend
Oneohtrix Point Never - Behind The Bank
David Fanshawe - Masai Women
William Penn - Crystal Rainbows
Monoton - Soundsequence
Gescom - PN-1.3.15
Nachtsmeer - Vindaloo
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Talk on the Couch
25/11/2009
THE MIDNIGHT EPISODE - MIDNIGHT MIX (2009)
∆ICASEA presents The Midnight Episode with a special part 7 in the ∆ICASEA SELECT series of podcasts.
Subscribe to ∆ICASEA SELECT for free via the iTunes store HERE.
Alternative link to xml feed and mp3's HERE
Tracklisting:
Doc Breaknik - To Think I Hesitated
The Midnight Episode - The Lost World
Wyrding Module - Baptism
Rick Realm - Noone Will Come
The Consectetuer - Libras Uniting in May
Durk Dävert - Early Morning
Jocke & Elliot - Regnbågen
Chilling The Do - Diary of Forbidden Dreams
Seesaw - He Was Dead Asleep
Mortal & Chemist - Prismatic Dream
Karsten Dunst - Bioluminescence
Molto! - Palm Wine
Julee Cruise - Rockin' Back Inside My Heart
24/11/2009
19/11/2009
Zaha Hadid architects: JS Bach chamber music hall, Manchester. (2009)
Text from zaha hadid architects: 'the design enhances the multiplicity of bach’s work through a coherent integration of formal and structural logic. a single continuous ribbon of fabric swirls around itself, creating layered spaces to cocoon the performers and audience with in an intimate fluid space.
The process of realizing the design involved architectural considerations of scale, structure and acoustics to develop a dynamic formal dialogue inseparable from its intended purpose as an intimate chamber music hall. a layering of spaces and functions is achieved through the ribbon wrapping around itself, alternately compressing to the size of a handrail then stretching to enclose the full height of the room. circulatory and visual connections are continually discovered as one passes through the multiple layers of space delineated by the ribbon.
The ribbon itself consists of a translucent fabric membrane articulated by an internal steel structure suspended from the ceiling. the surface of the fabric shell undulates in a constant but changing rhythm as it is stretched over the internal structure. it varies between the highly tensioned skin on the exterior of the ribbon and the soft billowing effect of the same fabric on the interior of the ribbon. clear acrylic acoustic panels are suspended above the stage to reflect and disperse the sound, while remaining visually imperceptible within the fabric membrane.
Programmed lighting and a series of dispersed musical recordings activate the spaces between the ribbon outside of performance times. the installation is designed to be transportable and re-installed in other similar venues. pivotal to its function is the performance of the ribbon. it has been designed to simultaneously enhance the acoustic experience of the concert while spatially defining a stage, an intimate enclosure, and passageways. it exists at a scale in which it is perceived as both an object floating in a room as well as a temporal architecture that invites one to enter, inhabit and explore.
project details:
client: manchester international festival
programme: chamber music hall
architects: zaha hadid architects
design team: melodie leung, gerhild orthacker
acoustic consultant: sandy brown associates
fabricator: base structures
tensile structural engineer: tony hogg design ltd.
site: manchester art gallery, t1 gallery
site area: 17m x 25m
Zaha Hadid Pavilion installation time lapse from Manchester Art Gallery on Vimeo.
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