Q: What if the Seinfeld theme were slowed down 1200%?

A: It would sound awesome! (and kinda creepy)

via boingboing

Brian Eno Creates Healing Light and Sound Installation

A gem of a project from Brian Eno! Two immersive installations of healing sound and light have been included in a new hospital in East Sussex County in the UK. So good to see the healing benefit of sound acknowledged by the western medical establishment!

Read the article in The Independent here:http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/from-roxy-music-to-the-cure-brian-eno-composes-soundscapes-to-treat-hospital-patients-8577179.html

Dogs Play Bluegrass

The Constantly Stellar Alice Coltrane

Very cool sound experiment!

Click here for more info:http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/this-is-what-happens-when-you-run-water-through-a-24hz-sine-wave/

Great Voice

Recorded sound before Edison

Visual representations of sounds produced before Edison, from the book/CD Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio, by Patrick Feaster

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/7-sound-recordings-made-before-thomas-edison

Rob Stenson clawhammer banjo

Good Stuff!

Electrojazzkaratefusion

Via Corey Convex at the always entertaining Spectacular Optical Corp

Komuz vs. Dombra

Siberian shamanic singing and khomus (mouth harp)

Beautiful!

Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes by György Ligeti

"On that night [of the premier performance], after the final tick-tock of the metronome, there was a heavy silence, followed by booing, screaming, and threats."  Click here to watch the performance on Ubuweb

Library of Animal Sounds from Cornell University

http://macaulaylibrary.org/ This is a really great collection, and it's growing!