Echo Next craziness.

2000 hours of British and world folk music just went online. Nice.

Audio recorder for iPhone, with sync app for the Mac. Looks nifty. (It irritates me no end that the Mac is needed - it'll be the third such app I've installed, when I should be able to mount the iPhone on my desktop and drag files off it.)

"The "sonic barberpole" illusion invented by psychologist Roger Shepard at Bell Labs. The illusion consists of a seemingly endlessly rising or falling set of tones. The trick is done by simultaneously sweeping eight (or so) pure tones (i.e., sine waves) tuned exactly one octave apart. The human ear/brain has a really hard time figuring out which pure tone is the fundamental, so it "slips" periodically, just like an eye watching a barberpole (or looking at an Escher staircase). To conceal the tones' appearing and disappearing they fade in at one end of the cycle and fade out at the other."

Interesting cinema column from a sound design perspective.

Sounds of dental equipment in use.

50% cassette tape/50% cotton. Playable, in a manner of speaking.

"Hyperupic: An image to sound composing application for MacOS X"

"Because we can now translate HTML into music, anyone who has created a webpage has written a song." - neat. Submit Response sounds pretty hardcore.

"A piano sits in the middle of an empty gallery. All the sound in the room is amplified and the sound passed through loudspeakers which resonate over the piano strings which vibrate into the room in a continuous cyclical process."

An interview and documentary with Alvin Lucier.

More on loudness and CD mastering (thanks MacDara!)

Many links to unusual instruments, experimental sound artists, &c.

CD mastering techniques considered harmful.

Nice page on the sound recordist/archivist/Moondog associate, with MP3s for download.

I bloody love this advert for the Honda Civic (the one with the choir). Or, as they say in the world of advertising, 'Yah, great creative'.

"Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds"

"Singing bridges" is a sonic sculpture, playing the cables of stay-cabled and suspension bridges as musical instruments."

Field recordings and phonography. Careful - I just spent a very long time noodling around the archives...

I hope someone knows who this bloke is - I'd like to hear him.

Cup Phonograph Kit - build a thing that lets you record to a plastic cup, wax-cylinder-style!

Piping stuff into a sound player.

Yep, a robot that plays eggs. Wondrous.

SoundSource is a tiny tool for OS X enabling you to switch your audio input and output sources with a single click. And with the System setting, you can transfer system beeps to a secondary audio source so you won't be disturbed.

Documentary on field recordings