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Talking Tapes

Published on Apr 29, 2016 Grand Illusions

"Just as vinyl records have a pattern of grooves and ridges that contain the sound, talking tapes - which were originally developed in 1918 - work on the same principle. Along the length of the tape is a fine pattern of grooves, and when you run your finger nail along the tape, you can 'play' the encoded message."

How to listen to a record with your teeth | Do Try This at Home | At-Bristol Science Centre

Published on Mar 4, 2016 At-Bristol Science Centre

"A gramophone - or phonograph - turns the vibrations of a needle moving along a record into sound. But is it possible to listen to the grooves in an old vinyl record using your teeth? In this video, Ross investigates and shows you how to make your own paper gramophone at home."

Monument Valley Soundtrack on Vinyl

via iam8bit

"In partnership with developer ustwo, we’re thrilled to unveil the soundtrack of award-winning game Monument Valley as a 2xLP vinyl set. The meditative ambience and melodic experimentations of Stafford Bawler, OBFUSC, and Grigori provide the perfect backdrop to the game’s elegant interactive experience.

This collector’s item is the first time that Volume 1 of the soundtrack has been available in physical form, and is also the debut of Volume 2, featuring music from the game’s expansions Forgotten Shores and Ida’s Dream.

Ustwo’s designers returned to the world of Monument Valley to create exclusive new artwork for this release. This deluxe gatefold package also features printed LP sleeves, and an 8-page story booklet.

Volume I
Amateur Cartography
The Garden
Hidden Temple
The Ghost
Water Palace
The Spire
The Labyrinth
The Rookery
The Box
The Descent
Observatory
At Journey’s End
Sounds From Shattered Seashells
Inverted Island
Oceanic Glow
Ida’s Theme

Volume II
The Chasm
Forgotten Shores
Untold Stories
The Serpent Lake
The Thief
Halcyon Court
The Lost Falls
The Citadel of Deceit
The Oubliette
Nocturne
Haunted
Dreaming
Xen
An Old Friend
Ascension"

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Gifts From Crows

"Gabi (age 8) regularly feeds crows and they bring her shiny things in return."



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Philae Historic First Landing on a Comet

Philae's descent via NASA

Image Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/DLR

"This image of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was taken by the Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission during Philae's descent toward the comet on Nov. 12, 2014. Philae's ROLIS camera took the image from a distance of approximately two miles (three kilometers) from the surface.

After more than a decade traveling through space, a robotic lander built by the European Space Agency has made the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet.
Mission controllers at ESA's mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Nov. 12, just after 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST.

A statement about Rosetta from John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, is online at: http://go.nasa.gov/1u2fQZE"

Left: earlier image of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko prior to today's landing.



"Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0"

Update 11/13/14: image from Philae at landing site.



"This mosaic comprises four individual NAVCAM images taken from 31.8 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 4 November 2014. The image resolution is 2.7 m/pixel and thus each original 1024 x 1024 pixel frame measured 2.8 km across. The mosaic has been slightly rotated and cropped, and measures roughly 4.6 x 3.8 km.

Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO"

A Cricket Choir - The Sounds of Crickets Slowed Down

"Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_i…rviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crick…=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/…d-down-crickets/"

6000 Year Old Extinct Language

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