Tuesday 8 March 2011

Tectonic – A Free Album Of Music Generated By Earthquakes


Sound artist Micah Frank has released Tectonic – a free album of music generated by earthquakes.
The video, above, documents the Tectonic sound sculpture, which creates sound in real time, triggered by earthquakes as they occur across the globe.
A integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Ableton Live processes a stream of real-time data that is translated into synthesis and sample playback parameters. When an earthquake occurs, seismic data is relayed to the system, sound is produced and Google Earth immediately flies to the coordinates of the latest earthquake.
For the album Tektonic, embedded above, Frank compiled and mastered 57 minutes of earthquake sonifications that can be listened to as a full length album.
You can also download the sonifications as a free Live Pack.
Details on the sound sculpture are available at Frank’s site
ALBUM DOWNLOAD (lossless)
via synthopia
From the fevered imagination of Bloody Holly at 06:17

4 comments:

  1. exilestreet8 March 2011 at 06:31

    HerrB/
    That Soundcloud/album download is 955MB! He has put it up in Apple lossless format :(
    Regards/

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  2. Bloody Holly8 March 2011 at 07:58

    Ho!!
    Value for no money!!
    Regards/

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  3. Bloody Holly8 March 2011 at 07:59

    Earthquakes just sound better in lossless :)

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  4. exilestreet8 March 2011 at 08:17

    Will have to plug in my surroundsound speakers :)

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