10/01/2024
PLAYLIST for Today:
*Moments In Love by Art of Noise from And What Have You Done With My Body, God? (2006)
*Turbine Wire by Stu Watts (single 2023)
*Moon Doom by Observers from The Age of the Machine Entities (2024)
*Back In The Day by Jonny Dee (single 2023)
*Atlantis by Charm of Finches (single 2023)
*Calls From A Rusty Cage by John Butcher from Resonant Spaces (2008)
*Keeps Me Warm by Imber (single 2023)
*Depth of my Colour by Broxton (single 2023)
*You Will Be fine by CheekyBoy (single 2023)
*One Summers Day by Joe Hisiashi from Spirited Away O.S.T. (2001)
*Sun Leads Me On by Half Moon Run from Sun Leads Me On (2015)
*The Thing From The Deep by The Chops from Volcanic Cave (2018)
*You Didn’t Try To Call Me by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention from Freak Out (1966)
Happy New Year everyone. The first episode of The Big Note for 2024 looks at the sonic attributes of given spaces, and more specifically resonance/reverberance.
Almost every conceivable space apart from the vacuum of deep space or an anechoic chamber has certain sonic characteristics that will affect how sound behaves within that space. Even solid objects and fluids have sonic characteristics that will change how sound behaves within and through them.
We discuss aspects of this sonic characteristic in todays episode as well as play some great music illustrating the theme, as well as other new and old music from Australian artists and elsewhere.
Further reading/References:
How Music Works
David Byrne - 2013 McSweeney's
Monolithic Undertow
Harry Sword - 2021 White Rabbit
Sonic Wonderland
Professor Trevor Cox - Vintage (Penguin Random House) 2015
http://www.sonicwonders.org/
Image credit: Photograph of the Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni made before 1910 from Wikipedia
Video: Interior of King Solomon's Caves in Tasmania by TBN with a cheeky overdubbed audio snippet of resonant sounds from inside a concrete water tank! Don't take everything you see or hear on the interwebs as gospel boys & girls! 😂😂