The Sound Art of Bruce Russell

Tree Ring Music

Ever notice how a cross-section of a tree trunk looks like a vinyl record? No? Well, artist Bartholomäus Traubeck did. His latest project, “Years,” plays the rings of a tree by mapping to a scale the lightness and darkness of color in the tree cross-section. You can listen here: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/28/turntable-that-plays-the-r.html

The sound of hearing loss

I remember being in 6th grade and learning about Claude Monet. I was fascinated by how he continued painting after beginning to lose his sight, and it was then that I first began to contemplate what the actual sensation of losing one's sight would feel like. Later, I ended up needing glasses, and so figured I might have some idea.
Now, speech researcher Arthur Boothroyd has simulated sensorineural hearing loss, to give people an idea of the experience of this unique condition in which sounds are not only harder to hear (quieter), but may also become jumbled, garbled, and other wise incomprehensible.

You can have a listen here.

Mercury Changes Shape at Specific Audio Frequencies

Mercury dances, if you get the music right.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31078/mercury-sound-kooky-mad-science-party

Celebrating birdsong: The colour and complexity of avian airs - News and features - Scotsman.com

“I doubt that one can find in any human music, however inspired, melodies and rhythms that have the sovereign freedom of bird song,”  Olivier Messiaen

Celebrating birdsong: The colour and complexity of avian airs - News and features - Scotsman.com

The world sends them garbage...

Children from Paraguay are taking the world's garbage and giving back music. Paraguay accepts landfill waste from other nations; a lucrative business deal, but usually detrimental to its own ecology and citizens' well-being. Children from the villages near these garbage sites have fashioned musical instruments from the refuse, turning the world's refuse into music. You can watch a video on their harmonic exploits here:
http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2013/04/landfill-harmonic-kids-orchestra-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lloydkahn+%28Lloyd%E2%80%99s+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Sea Lion Keeps the Beat

A California sea lion names Ronan is now becoming known as the first non-human mammal that can keep the beat while rocking out to music -which is better than some human mammals I know!

http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/45802