Color Organ Visualized. Modern Practices. An excerpt.

The 21st Century

The 21st century Virtual Color Organ is a computational system for







translating musical compositions into visual performance

We See Further!

This video post is described as representing:  "The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of interacting galaxies IC 1623, located 270 million light-years from Earth."

I say this is a wonderfully short video piece with a marvelous, synthesized soundtrack.  

Click the link below.  Watch, listen, enjoy!

We See Further 

Sounds of the Planets

I have found this practice of capturing electromagnetic vibrations from celestial objects in space and then converting them into sounds perceptible to human hearing very rewarding. I paraphrase the means of getting the raw audio source material:

"Devices like plasma wave antennas on Voyager and Hawk-Eye probes capture radio waves, which are then processed into sound frequencies we can hear."

Years back, there was a CD collection of NASA recordings of some of the planets in our Solar System.  It was a wonderful collection of audio thumbprints from some of our neighbors in space.

Click on the link below to enjoy some of these fascinating sounds!

https://youtu.be/uhGKMh2Bhns 

Stylish and Influential Guitarists

 

I reshare this entertaining post regarding guitar players who have introduced their own style and mastery of the guitar.  Informative blurbs explain the unique playing styles of Robert Fripp, Ry Cooder, Adrian Belew, Derek Bailey, St. Vincent, Glen Branca, Tom Morello, Kurt Cobain, etc.

Very informative and fun post!

Six string boundary-breakers who redefined how we play guitar

It is Not Enough That They are Brilliant. They have also Created Their Own Instruments!

 

We already know these musicians as being supremely gifted performers and composers but it really blows my mind when I see an article like this that discusses artists like these who also develop their own instruments!  Amazing!  Take a look through the attached link to get the scoop on some of the incredible rigs the likes of Laurie Anderson, Stevie Wonder, Pat Metheney, Leon Theremin, and others have created to accentuate their music.  Wonderous Stories, indeed!

8 musicians who invented their own instruments and gadgets

Two Views Of Electronic Music and Synthesizers

These are two well composed documentaries regarding the time scale of which electronic music appeared and who the musical artists were who used synthesizers and composed with them.  "The Evolution of Electronic Music (1929-2019)" sketches out very early applications considered electronic music and plays a small sampling of the works being represented.  Although popular recordings which dabbled with synthesized tones in this documentary are skipped over in this work (No Beatles, Monkees, Byrds, Beach Boys mentions!). 

Our second documentary clearly focuses on this pop music synth implementation:

 The First Bands To Use Synths

The surprise is that The Beatles were far from the first popular band to use a synthesizer in their arrangements.  Our host travels back quite a bit further in the past to find his answer.  Amazing!

The Big One

World's Largest Pipe Organ