“Tristan Perich‘s 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally “performs” its music live when turned on.”

Tristan Perich – 1-Bit Symphony via: createdigitalmusic

The basics / guide of synthesizer programming / patching. By Dominic Milano. Keyboard Magazine – June 1985. Also some interviews with studio programmers (Michael Boddicker,…) – “How to make those million dollar sounds”.

Via: @flugli

Fake Engine Noise Makes Electric Cars Safer

“Giving quiet electric and hybrid cars a fake engine sound will warn pedestrians they are coming.”

Read On: newscientist

“The Seeburg 1000 background music system was introduced in 1963 in which to provide background music or “elevator music” as we know it today for shoppers in stores, or factory workers etc. These units played a special record designed by seeburg 2″ diameter center hole 16-2/3 RPM disk. The machine was designed to provide continuous play of up to 25 disks, 20 songs per side, hence the name “1000″. At the end of the last record, the changer would lift the stack upto the top of the changer spindle for another round of playing.”

“Presentation by Chris Hunter: Early sound recording device 1922 – one of earliest attempts to record sound on film. The Pallophotophone recorded wave forms of sound using light which bounced off a small mirror, exposing 35 mm film.”