What are you listening to right now?

by **justdrew** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:15 pm

my newest video High-Velocity Ahrtistical Masterpiece, one hour from conception to upload.
re-edited video from "Heaven Help A Sailor On A Night Like This (ca 1940s)" from archive.org

ready for Feb 14th

by **Perelandra** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:26 pm

by **justdrew** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:18 pm

by **Bruce Dazzling** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:23 pm

by **American Dream** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:59 am

White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" performed on things found in a laboratory

By Maggie Koerth-Baker at 7:36 pm Thursday, Feb 16

The Blast Lab at Imperial College, London, is a place where scientists study how explosions affect the human skeleton, and try to find ways to mitigate some of those effects. As you can imagine, this involves blowing stuff up fairly regularly and The Blast Lab is a pretty loud place.

But the team of students behind PLoS' Inside Knowledge blog noticed something cool about that. The sounds in The Blast Lab weren't just loud noises, they were loud notes. Edit them together, and you could reproduce a whole song, using nothing but sounds recorded in a working scientific laboratory.

In this video, the Inside Knowledge crew plays The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" on the Imperial College Blast Lab. In case you're curious, here's the breakdown showing what lab equipment the team used to replicate the sound of which instruments.

Bass Guitar: Main sensor output cable
Bass Drum: Blast Rig
Toms: Hammer & Storm Case
Hi-Hat: Oil Spray
Cymbal: Blast Plate
'Vocals': Laces to contain dummy leg during blast
'Guitar': Accelerometer cable & Fastening Strings

Video Link

by **Harvey** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:31 pm

by **justdrew** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:39 am

by **Bruce Dazzling** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:53 am

justdrew wrote:

Not sure why the band isn't credited for that video, but it's by Sprites, the same band that brought us the tremendous George Romero:

The singer's old band was Barcelona, who were also pretty rad.