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 Found art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term, found art, or more commonly, found object (French: objet trouvé) describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art.
Found art derives significance from the context into which it is placed, thus blurring the traditional distinction of what is art, and what is not art, and challenges the nature of art.
Found Magazine, based in Ann Arbor, MI, collects and catalogs found notes, photos, and other interesting items.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Found_sound   (321 words)

  
 Music | Found sounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The effect, for the unsuspecting audience of pedestrians, is of a gradual polyphonic transition from one set of sounds to another, and one space to another.
Your Favorite London Sounds (LMC) is the result of a project conducted by the London Musicians’ Collective in 1998; the LMC asked hundreds of Londoners what their favorite sound in their city was, and why, and then recorded them.
Other site-specific sounds here are subtler, like cacophonies of birds that resolve into the distinctive cries of London’s flbirds and swifts, or an electrical generator’s hum juxtaposed with the splash of water at the Deptford Grid substation.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02101082.htm   (1388 words)

  
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A list of species on the CD is not yet available on my web page, but includes 153 of the 171 sound producing species from Table 1 of the poster presentation listed on the Archive page (View Poster).
Sounds for the other 18 species were observed but not available to Fish and Mowbray at the time of the book's publication.
These sound clips were taken from a recording made by Tom Halavik, NMFS/NEFSC in Narragansett, RI in the early 1970's.
www.fishecology.org /soniferous/sound_demo.htm   (407 words)

  
 Lost & Found Sound: The Stories
Lost and Found Sound's Sonic Memorial Project explores the life and history of the World Trade Center through the little-known stories of the the "building stewardesses" -- young, pretty women who acted as guides as the twin towers began to rise over lower Manhattan.
As part of Lost and Found Sound's Sonic Memorial Project, we take a look back at the people and stories of "Radio Row," the neighborhood that was demolished to make room for the World Trade Center in 1966.
Lost & Found Sound marks the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of The Grand Ole Opry with a story inspired by a letter from a listener in Kansas City.
www.npr.org /programs/lnfsound/stories   (4036 words)

  
 JS Online: Seven Sounds bassist found fame
The result was the Seven Sounds, considered to be one of the great bands in Milwaukee musical history.
Vance was one of the founding members, playing bass guitar in the early days of rock 'n' roll.
The Sounds also had the honor of playing the same night as the Beatles, though not in the same building, Scales said, having fun with the story.
www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/jun03/148920.asp?format=print   (790 words)

  
 Tucson Weekly : Arts : Found Sounds
Now, here's a press release that couldn't be more specific: "Tucson-based sound sculptor Glenn Weyant will perform an evening of live subharmonic omnivibrational microtonal sound sculpture coaxed, amplified and processed from steel, wood, iron and trans-oceanic radio signals on Saturday, February 12 from 8 to 11 p.m.
Depending on how Weyant strikes and strokes various parts of the thing, the sounds can be quite haunting and, yes, musical, as long as your definition of music doesn't require a nice tune and a steady beat.
During a recent demonstration in his garage, he ran the skewers along the bungee cords, got the vibrations as loud as he could without generating feedback, elongated the tone and threw some compression on it.
www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Arts/Content?oid=65551   (1302 words)

  
 Found Sounds - Music Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Teaching Idea
Brainstorm different ways to make sounds (clapping, singing, stomping, whistling, playing different instruments) and then discuss how all sound is made with vibration.
After each sound have students open their eyes and write down what made the noise.
After 10 sounds, let students share what they guessed and listen to what their "wrong" answers sound like, as well as the real sound that you used.
www.lessonplanspage.com /MusicSoundVersusMusic15.htm   (308 words)

  
 Found Sounds - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The found sounds movement is an important offshoot of experimental music that involves artists appropriating prerecorded sounds discovered elsewhere and stitching them together to create their own peculiar sound collages.
Some artists, most notably Negativland and others in the "plunderphonics" movement, create compositions exclusively from found sounds, but more often artists use found sounds to counter and complement their own original music.
Using found sounds, samples, and yes, the sound of CDs skipping, LSR, Kid 606, and Matmos have created a wildly experimental project known simply as Disc.
www.epitonic.com /genres/foundsounds.html   (515 words)

  
 [ found sounds, field recordings, oddities ] titles at Aquarius Records
Not surprisingly, he was recording the co-mingling between the mediated sounds of that protest through the TV and the diffused amplification of the live event, appearing with a subtle time-lag.
This cd presents the sound investigation of the French team of Bunsel and Andrieu who used sensitive microphones with narrow frequency responses made to detect and identify the sounds of insect larvae which may be inhabiting otherwise quiet containers of grains and cereals.
A handful of examples of the sounds including the grain weevil, the Indian meal moth, and the Lesser mealworm are accompanied by a running narrative both explaining the techniques used and the identification of the insects.
www.aquariusrecords.org /cat/foundsoundsfieldrecordingsoddities.html   (6376 words)

  
 Learn more about SAMPA in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
[@] for schwa, [2] for the vowel sound found in French deux and [9] for the vowel sound found in French neuf.
Like IPA, SAMPA is usually enclosed in square bracketss or slasheses, which are not part of the alphabet proper and merely signify that it is phonetic and not regular text.
A more complete SAMPA chart of the sounds found in most of the European languages.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sa/sampa.html   (263 words)

  
 Endless Groove 5 - Found Sounds - Fascinato vs Elliott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The found sounds are for the most nicely worked into the arrangements, often carrying the melody, making for an unusual but not gimmicky sounding record.
One can marvel at the multitude of found sounds, but listening fatigue sets in after awhile.
Surprise followed by surprise seems to have be the operating principle with the found sounds.
www.endlessgroove.com /issue5/founds.htm   (125 words)

  
 Lost and Found Aviation Sounds: Whats New Page: Preserving the Voices of Aviation for Generations to Come.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Having gathered dust for 60 years until found by the Lost and Found Aviation Sounds team, the tape is one of only three copies of the recording known to still exist.
Lost and Found Aviation Sounds are a small team dedicated to preserving audio recordings related to aviation and space flight before its too late and historically valuable recordings are lost for good.
The LAFAS team recently worked on rare wire recordings found in a Washington DC basement, the recordings were interviews with the team that broke the sound barrier in 1947.
homepage.ntlworld.com /chris.butterfield/onevoice/lafas/news.htm   (993 words)

  
 CNN.com - Tuning in to a deep sea monster - June 13, 2002
The frequency of the sound meant it had to be much louder than any recognised animal noise, including that produced by the largest whales.
Nevertheless he agrees that the sound is most likely to be biological in origin.
You're able to look at the characteristics of the sound and say: 'There's a blue whale, there's a fin whale, there's a boat, there's a humpback whale and here comes and earchquake," he says.
archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/science/06/13/bloop   (599 words)

  
 pygame Code Repository
Description: A module that ensures that only one copy of each graphic, font or sound resource is loaded into memory.
Comments: Most game projects require graphics, sound and other resources to be loaded multiple times - a sprite's image might be loaded for each instance of that sprite.
Returns True if the resource was found in memory, False if it Wasn't.
www.pygame.org /pcr/caching_resource/index.php   (981 words)

  
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Found Sounds celebrates collective creativity and unity through the universal language of rhythm.
It is a time-honored, inspirational approach to embracing differences and building community.
Found Sounds uses the ancient tradition of drumming in a contemporary, innovative format to teach community building, communication skills, group dynamics and diversity awareness.
www.foundsounds.com   (122 words)

  
 Netlabel: wh024 To Ancient Noise: A Webbed Hand Compilation
Whether field recordings, found sounds, radio snippets, or other odd recorded artifacts of audio, these elements are worked by sound artists in interesting and often startling ways.
In some cases the sounds may not be processed much at all, but are rather selected for their rhythmic virtues.
Manipulation of found sounds is a well-entrenched "tradition" in the audio arts, dating back in practice to the advent of magnetic tape, in the 1930s, and decades earlier than that in theory.
www.webbedhandrecords.com /wh024.html   (323 words)

  
 found sound directives
Found Sound love sound such as found cassettes, field recordings, etc. No sound sent should be produced by you.
the sounds for this must be found, literally, or field recordings.
NEWS volume three of found sound and volume four of microcassettor will share one track, the track from HARMSTRYKER, well, it was found in a microcassette recorder/player sitting up in the attic.
www.soundsfromthepocket.com /found.htm   (339 words)

  
 Browse Top Level > Audio > Found Sounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The sounds are from the places I have been and always stimulate my memories of the where I was when I made each sound composition.
Finding melody though sound collage and minimalism, the focus of this album is to add to the listener's enviroment as oppose to become the focus of it.
This set for slow sound system is a good flavour of their sound - dark soundscaping and sonic detritus in the vein of early Autechre, :zoviet*france: or Kevin Shields.
www.archive.org /audio/audiolisting-browse.php?cat=369   (3061 words)

  
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The time relationship between the ECG and the Korotkoff sounds was found to be 0.250983 second with a standard deviation of 0.03072 second.
For the Integrated ECG channel (The integration function was also found to be suitable for the ECG channel) the lower limit of the peaks was set to be the mean of the noise plus 5 standard deviations (this is due to the extremely small noise to peak ratio).
As shown in Figure 2, the change in the slope with time was not found to be significantly correlated with the log of time (95% confidence) while the change in the intercept was found to be correlated with the log of time (95% confidence).
www.seas.upenn.edu /courses/belab/LabProjects/2002/be309f02m3p2.doc   (3396 words)

  
 Game for Small Sounds (Ftrain.com)
Some found a place to stay; some walked far north through the cold, and past the land bridge, then south.
Then one day they found that those they'd left back, now blanched white, the men from Spain, the Brits and Scots, the Dutch and Danes and Swedes, and more, had found this new land, had left their boats where the tide lapped the rocks and come to shore.
But all got to keep some words of their own, and that is how the tale went, and how the words and sounds that we were born to were mixed, and shame or no, the words here in this place are owned by all.
www.ftrain.com /game_for_small_sounds.html   (1052 words)

  
 New Found Sounds
Kid 606 was playing in the beer garden underneath the arch of Glasshouse Bridge which is really an impressive location with great acoustics.
Kid 606 came on to play a great set of continually mixed sounds from two lap tops.
He always kept what he was doing funky to keep the crowd moving which is no mean feat considering how extreme a lot of his sounds were, he always knew when to move from one genre to another to keep it interesting for the crowd and have you guessing what he would play next.
www.newfoundsounds.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /reviews/kid606.html   (277 words)

  
 VERSIONS 1 & 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This cd's concept is just as great, albeit a bit more 'fringe': a cd filled with found sounds, often from found tapes, packaged with found photographs in a found jewel case.
The first one deals with 'found sound' and it includes sounds of CDRs and cassettes found on the street but also on places where people just stuck a microphone in the
It's hard to describe what you hear on this CDR: spoken word, answerphone messages, rock songs (found on cassettes), but also a song like 'I Play Sports' by EEEE EEEEE, which is weird, but it seems to hard that it was found somewhere.
home.earthlink.net /~eyewaters/id1.html   (501 words)

  
 S A N | F R A N C I S C O | C L A S S I C A L | V O I C E
I found it interesting that most of the pieces favored these sorts of harsh metallic sounds — even many of the pieces based on found sounds — and I wondered why this was.
The greatest surprise was the deep emotional impact that some of the pieces had on me. Pure sound can hit you in a primal, gut way that eludes what we normally call music, with its stylized and controlled melody, rhythm and harmony.
Indeed, “musical” sounds as we traditionally think of them are only a small subset of the many sounds out there that can be used to make art.
www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/tapemusicfest_1_25_05.php   (955 words)

  
 freesound :: home page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.
The current target is to reach 10·000 sounds before we reach 1·000·000 downloads.
sounds for sci fi short anim by noobiebaloney
freesound.iua.upf.edu   (246 words)

  
 ipedia.com: SAMPA Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
] for the vowel sound found in French deux and [
] for the vowel sound found in French neuf.
A concise version of SAMPA chart for English sounds.
www.ipedia.com /sampa.html   (340 words)

  
 Music | Found sounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
They’re fragile, full of regret and uneasiness, dogged by clouds of doubt as they recount relationship-killing mistakes in numbers like the title tune or do their best to live with the consequences in "Summer Time" and other songs.
And when she’s not playing her own tunes on the bandstand, she can be found in the RandB party band the Love Dogs.
Almost everything on the CD was recorded live in the studio, and there are no synthesizers, which makes it all sound more organic.
www.portlandphoenix.com /music/other_stories/documents/04193312.asp   (1428 words)

  
 [ found sounds, field recordings, oddities ] titles at Aquarius Records
"Warm your hands and thoughts to the woodfire sound on this album" is the suggestion, but we think this might also be a good purchase for fl metal fans eager to sonically picture an authentic church burning (you'll have to imagine the cries of the priests though).
Chapter two is heavier on the music (not heavier mind you, but containing more music), with less emphasis on battles and dialogue, sounding much more medieval and almost renaissance faire-ish at times (although fear not, there is still plenty of orcish being grunted, as well as the occasional unsheathing of swords).
Their adventure begins in the deep lustrous forest filled with the sounds of the wild and the roar of a great fire.
www.aquariusrecords.org /cat/foundsoundsfieldrecordingsoddities4.html   (4495 words)

  
 Divestudio.org // D. Jean Hester // Projects: Found Sounds
As part of the installation I also played sounds found within the various video footage, creating a subtle ambient environment.
Shadows / MP3 /.53MB / 1:07 mins: Sound excerpt from the video footage which spawned the "Notice" project: shadows on a building next door to my apartment of a tree moving in the breeze.
These sound files are licensed under an Attribution-Share-Alike Creative Commons License.
www.divestudio.org /projects/sounds.php   (255 words)

  
 wsmfsounds
For instance, sound seeing tours are going great gang busters, but for decades the recording of a time and place has been happening in force.
Yes, some of you are already wondering if you have heard this one before, and in fact you have but now of course it has the letters POD in it so somehow its new, amazingly new, really really new and by gum the world is going to change because of it.
You can always find a complete list over on the BoingBoing Found Sounds Webjay playlist that I am using as a master table of these gems.
wsmfsounds.blogspot.com   (1383 words)

  
 audio browser searches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Note the other laughter sounds that are found, as well as the fact that dogsBark and chickenCoop2 are near the top.
The sounds that are found have a similar percussive attack.
Note the other laughter sounds that are found, as well as the fact that dogsBark2 will typically come near the top.
www.musclefish.com /searches.html   (213 words)

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