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  Chania Soundscape Project is a initiative for making people in Chania more aware of their soundscape. We do that through artistic performances, workshops,  seminars and listening sessions. Our goal is supported by the Municipality of Chania. Chania Soundscape Project

Spiders rely quite significantly on touch to sense the world around them. Their bodies and legs are covered in tiny hairs and slits that can distinguish between different kinds of vibrations. Prey blundering into a web makes a very different vibrational clamor from another spider coming a-wooing, or the stirring of a breeze, for example. Each strand of a web produces a different tone. A few years ago, scientists translated the three-dimensional structure of a spider's web into music, working with artist Tomás Saraceno to create an interactive musical instrument, titled Spider's Canvas. Now the team has refined and built on that previous work, and added an interactive virtual reality component to allow people to enter and interact with the web. Listen here:  Spider Sonification  

For the last three months I am recording the Venetian harbour in Chania. Unfortunately, a great part of it's soundscape has been degraded over the years by the tourism development. However, there are still some acoustically rich and animated spots around the area, covering a wide band of the listening spectrum. Some have their own tempo and phase shifting properties depending on the volume and the direction of wind respectively. One of the most acoustically interesting spots, is the second wooden dock when walking down from Neorio Moro towards the harbour centre. There you get the feeling that you are inside the sea - and in a way you are. You are able to listen the sea more closely and you also get all the small sounds generated by the friction of the boats with the dock louder - either the buoys or the steel springs and the ropes. Zooming in to each of these sounds you start to hear their individual performances. Using contact microphones I was able to capture some of these perf...

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An almost limitless fun of shortwave radio listening. Listen and control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club  ETGD  at the  University of Twente . In contrast to other web-controlled receivers, this receiver can be tuned by multiple users simultaneously, thanks to the use of Software-Defined Radio.  The cherry on the top...a record button.   Visit here:  Wide-Band WebSDR .  

  Sarah Belle Reid  is a latest youtube discovery while searching reviews about the Make Noise Strega synthesiser. I watched a really good review by her and then started to browse her channel to find reviews for many other interesting audio topics.  She is also a good performer-composer who plays trumpet, modular synthesizer and an ever-growing collection of handcrafted electronic instruments. Her unique musical voice explores the intersections between contemporary classical, experimental and interactive electronics, noise music, and improvisation.  Here is a no input mixing board small performance in her channel:  Sarah Belle Reid  Search there for more...

Here is a collection of music experiments with Javascript running on a browser. They use the tone.js library and many of them are quite remarkable. Have a go:  tone.js