recent WIRED Lab music uploads

[dave burraston]

WEATHER-MIX

5 minute weather sounds selection

A multi-layered mix of natural weather pattern sonifications :
rising and falling wind patterns
rain storms (heard as cracks and pops when water strikes the pickup, and as zaps/pings as the rain strikes further down the wire)
wire resonance tones induced by the wind

WIREDLab-PROGRAM-MIX

5 minute program selection

0:00 - Polybox and Clangers : Alan Lamb & Dave Burraston
0:35 – Bowing on The Wires : Jeff Henderson
1:44 – Shell and Voice into The Wires : Colin Offord
2:35 – Acoustic Pole Recording : Garry Bradbury
3:23 – Dean Frenkel singing and playing at WIRED Open Day recorded by Ian Andrews
4:00 – Epiphany segment for LASER control research : Dave Burraston & Robin Fox

30-06-09-pickups2+CS-gulley

14 and a half minutes of continuous recording on the gulley wire using a set of recently installed piezo pickups. this section captures the lead up to a rainfall event, and part of the rainfall too. sections of this can be heard in the 5 minute weather-mix.


cheers
d

[Nick Mariette]

so where are these recordings?
would love to hear them.

[Nick Mariette]

ah silly me - i just saw the music section on the front page - with the recordings.
another question though - are there any recordings from around the time when the piezo pickups were melting/dying? i guess if there aren't, they could be simulated by taking a blowtorch to some pickups at some stage (sacrilegious as it sounds).... like a bushfire simulation perhaps.... another sonic example of the environmental stresses of inland australia...
and now i'm thinking about it - did the dust-storm go through cootamundra? wonder what that would sound like through the wires..... granular/wire fusion perhaps?

[dave burraston]

unfortunately didn;t get a recording, in any case at those temps our recorder would probably have packed up, as well as me!

yea the dust storm did come through, but missed being able to record it though. thats the second one i missed, as missed the other one earlier in the year. am hoping to catch the next one.