The London Sound Survey featuring London maps, sound recordings, sound maps, local history, London wildlife

How Sam Phillips Invented the Sound of Rock and Roll For the next two years, Sun Studio continued to be Sam Phillips' laboratory. While helping to launch the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash, he remained the mad genius of sound. In 1954, Phillips acquired two state-of-the-art Ampex 350 tape recorders and started playing around with what we now call "slapback echo delay"—the echo that results when you record to one tape machine's record head while also recording the playback (usually the vocals) being played on another machine. The actual physical space between the heads of the machines makes for an audible delay and echo, a unique and iconic sound best heard on tracks like Elvis' "Blue Moon of Kentucky." It soon became one of Phillips' main tricks, and one that few others knew how to do correctly. In 1956, Elvis wanted wanted to use the slapback echo on his first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel." The Legacy A Sun control board. Courtesy of Sam Phillips Recording Service, © Hi-Lo Music

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A Soundmap Of London’s Waterways Click here to visit the audio version, with embedded sound files. London Sound Survey is a truly extraordinary site. Truly extraordinary. No hyperbole or exaggeration. Site owner Ian Rawes has spent years compiling audio recordings from around London – from street sounds to the clicks, whistles, squarks and hoots of the capital’s wildlife. Most splendidly, Ian has found imaginative ways to present his recordings. The Waterways map is just one of many addictive sections of the site. See our long list of other alternative tube maps.

:: Continuator Continuator The Continuator is a usable musical instrument combining techniques from interactive and automatic learning systems. It learns and interactively plays with a user in the user's style. It is based on a Markov model of musical styles augmented to account for efficient real time learning of musical styles and to arbitrary external bias. The Continuator is an attempt to bridge the gap between two classes of traditionally incompatible musical systems: 1) interactive musical systems, limited in their ability to generate stylistically consistent material, and 2) music composition systems, which are fundamentally not interactive. The purpose of Continuator is to extend the technical ability of musicians with stylistically consistent, automatically learnt musical material. Bernard Lubat at IRCAM Bernard Lubat, world famous jazz musician, poly instrumentist and contemporary music composer, has played with the Continuator at the Festival d'Uzeste ( 2000 and 2001), and at IRCAM in 2001.

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Which London tribe do you belong to? - ES Magazine - Life & Style Find them at Blitz vintage store Modern London is rubbish, according to its vintage tribe. That’s why they prefer to live in sexier, more stylish eras, spending their spare time scouring eBay and the Blitz warehouse for bygone bargains. Rosie takes meticulous care to match the perfect 1940s tea dress with authentic nylons and headpiece. The devil is in the detail. Her look is a mesh of wondrous signifiers, treading a fine line between subservient girly-whirlishness (gingham dresses, cupcake stalls, pearls) and resilient 1950s biker-girl chic (armful of sailor tattoos, stiff quiff – thanks to regular appointments at The Painted Lady on Redchurch Street – and red Cupid-bow lips). Lactivists Find them on Church Street Trinny first met Josie, Liza and Gretchen during a ‘Midwife-led unit or water birth?’ Label lads Find them hanging around XL studios in Ladbroke Grove Hackney high-rollers Find them on a bench in Hoxton Square Abstractionists Find them in a Seven Sisters studio W11 literati

Fair Organ Preservation Society Recensement et analyse de jeux environnementaux ("green games") Retour au projet de recherche Nous publions ici les résultats d'une recherche exploratoire qui nous a permis d'identifier une 15e de jeux de simulation environnementale. Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive, elle sera enrichie au fur et à mesure de nouvelles découvertes. Pour établir ce recensement, nous avons retenu les critères suivants : - des jeux sur ordinateur : il s'agit de jeux sur support numérique, à l'exclusion des autres jeux (de plateau, de rôle...). - des jeux de simulation : nous avons éliminé les sites ou les logiciels qui se cantonnent uniquement à de l'information. - des jeux "sérieux" : ces jeux comportent une dimension ludique issue du jeu vidéo, mais doivent aussi s'écarter du simple divertissement On a donc éliminé les outils de simulation informatique ne comportant pas d'approche ludique ou au contraire les applications tournées uniquement vers le jeu ; Cliquer sur le nom du logiciel pour accéder à la fiche d'analyse détaillée

Rubber Tracks | Converse Music New York City psychedelia aficionados Whitewash have a knack for working within constraints. The project began in 2012 when Jon (bass) and Sam (guitar) met at NYU and started playing along to Ween songs together. When Jon met Evan (drums) in jazz auditions, he convinced him to join them, and they started playing around with their sound with covers of Led Zeppelin, Mac Demarco, and Thee Oh Sees. These experimentations eventually became their debut EP Fraud in Lisbon, a masterful piece of bedroom psych whose whole is greater than the sum of its minimal parts. In the meantime, they’ll be playing shows in New York and embarking on a tour in March. Analysis of funder Open Access policies around the world « SPARC Europe We have analysed 48 mandatory funder polices listed in the ROARMAP registry ( according to which routes to OA the policy specifies. The results at 10 February 2013 are shown below. Funders permitting Gold OA article processing fees to be paid from research grant, or by a request to the funder = 20 Green (repository-based) Open Access required: 33 funders Either Green or Gold routes satisfy policy requirements: 14 funders Gold (journals) preferred where available: 1 funder The list will be updated as new policies are implemented.

The Austin 100: A SXSW 2017 Preview Mix Tkay Maidza is performing at this year's South By Southwest music festival. Cassandra Hannagan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Cassandra Hannagan/Getty Images Tkay Maidza is performing at this year's South By Southwest music festival. Every year, the SXSW Music Festival serves a daunting, days-long feast of sounds from around the world. Picked from a playlist that spanned more than a hundred hours, these 100 songs represent a broad and exciting cross-section of SXSW's many highlights. As in previous years, The Austin 100 is just the beginning of NPR Music's SXSW 2017 coverage, so keep coming back to NPR.org/SXSW for full concerts, photos, videos, commentary and, of course, many more recommendations to come. The Austin 100 Playlist Aaron Lee Tasjan, "Little Movies" [MP3] Nashville, Tennessee Tasjan's spacey, genre-obliterating Americana positively sparkles. Adam Torres, "I Came To Sing The Song" [MP3] Austin, Texas Agnes Obel, "Familiar" [MP3] Copenhagen, Denmark Lyttelton, New Zealand