Looking for a "song", maybe created by scientists, required headphones?
February 22, 2013 11:34 PM Subscribe
I am looking for a "song" and I believe it was created by scientists. About 10 min long. Headphones were required. It begins with an industrial, pulsating sound like taking a kitchen faucet and spraying it into a stainless steel bowl around and around. After a few minutes, it bursts into loud but clear music with harps and strumming of various instruments. There are no human voices.
I seem to recall this "song" was engineered for a purpose... maybe to help insomniacs, or to create an auditory, holophonic experiment. If you closed your eyes, it created a "visual" effect. I feel like I first learned about it on wimp.com. I also clearly remember learning of this "song" when learning of Marconi Union and their song "Weightless" which was engineered to help you sleep. Any ideas?
I seem to recall this "song" was engineered for a purpose... maybe to help insomniacs, or to create an auditory, holophonic experiment. If you closed your eyes, it created a "visual" effect. I feel like I first learned about it on wimp.com. I also clearly remember learning of this "song" when learning of Marconi Union and their song "Weightless" which was engineered to help you sleep. Any ideas?
Poked around, found the wimp.com page for "Weightless", nothing more obviously useful. Some keywords that might help you, though:
process-generated music
computer composition, virtual composition
posted by dhartung at 1:42 AM on February 23, 2013
process-generated music
computer composition, virtual composition
posted by dhartung at 1:42 AM on February 23, 2013
http://www.omharmonics.com/
This may be what you're looking for. You can sign up to hear a ten minute free session or google for other ways to resource it.
posted by silvergirlwon at 6:21 AM on February 23, 2013
This may be what you're looking for. You can sign up to hear a ten minute free session or google for other ways to resource it.
posted by silvergirlwon at 6:21 AM on February 23, 2013
This doesn't sound like what you're looking for but in the early 2000s Matmos created a song called "For Felix" that used a laboratory rat's cage and a violin string to tell the story of a lab rat's life. I seem to remember there being a bit more to the story. Actually here's the Wiki article. Here's the song, if you don't mind some extraneous background imagery.
posted by mermily at 6:42 AM on February 23, 2013
posted by mermily at 6:42 AM on February 23, 2013
Was it this?
Crap, just saw you already knew about this. Sorry!
posted by trogdole at 2:30 PM on February 23, 2013
Crap, just saw you already knew about this. Sorry!
posted by trogdole at 2:30 PM on February 23, 2013
Response by poster: Thanks for trying everyone. Still havent found it but ill keep on looking.
posted by paulinsanjuan at 12:53 PM on February 24, 2013
posted by paulinsanjuan at 12:53 PM on February 24, 2013
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posted by rongorongo at 12:47 AM on February 23, 2013