Some works look at the commodification of social issues, like Anupam Singh's ringtone made from sounds of protests in Portland, while other pieces play with the idea of what can be put on sale, such as Anke Schüettler's childhood memory of popsicles in America.
Some works look at the commodification of social issues, like Anupam Singh's ringtone made from sounds of protests in Portland, while other pieces play with the idea of what can be put on sale, such as Anke Schüettler's childhood memory of popsicles in America.
Ringtones should be around thirty seconds in length, and can be made from any sound file.
The beat is shuffling and abrasive, made from what sounds like the by-products of some other, more polite song.
Yet electronic popular music keeps going back to the jolt: in hip-hop drumbeats sampled from scratchy LP's, in bursts of static or distortion, in whole pieces -- by the likes of Pan Sonic -- made from the sounds of malfunctioning equipment.
The article a ScienceShot published on 2 September 2009 describes how cottontop tamarins respond to the emotions of music made from monkey sounds.
BodySound, the opening piece, is an arrangement made from the sounds of Peranda's dancing heavy respiration, nails and hands grazing the floor, the thump and patter of feet.
you-are-watching.me is powered by an algorithm that cuts through live feeds with cinematic rhythm, and the soundtrack is made from correlating sounds found throughout the internet.
The recordings, made from 1946 to 1952, mostly sound good for the time.
It's basically a cheese crisp on the outside of the sandwich and, while as delicious as a crisp made from cheese undoubtedly sounds, I feel you can have too much of a good thing.
