bethanelfyn:

Rayne: Mind blowing experiments with sound!

oddpop:

grönlund-nisunen - wave of matter

cheaprent:

cool.

sound-art-text:

Harry Bertoia’s Sound Sculptures

Harry Bertoia began his career as a furniture designer for clients like Charles and Ray Eames and Knoll. His chairs sold so well that he turned to making sculpture full time, using similar materials to his furniture: metal sheets, wires, and rods. These sound sculptures were aesthetically minimal, but fulfilled a function beyond the visual. They were meant to be played as instruments, with the characteristic grids of rods swaying, colliding with each other and chiming, as would happen in the piece shown above. Some outdoor pieces were made to be triggered by the wind.

sound-art-text:

Cycloïd-E, a sound sculpture by Andre and Michel Decosterd

To start off, a desire to approach mechanisms that produce visible undulatory movements and to set them against the development of sound waves. A pendulum. And if this pendulum was made up of horizontally articulated segments, if a motor replaced the gravitational effect? The segments of the pendulum become metallic tubes equipped with sound sources and with measuring instruments capable of making them resonate according to their rotations. A succession of unexpected movements becomes apparent. The equilibrium in the energy exchanges between the segments is almost perfect; the trajectories are surprisingly right and natural. We’re faced with Harmony. Through its fascinating and hypnotic dance, Cycloïd-ε delineates the space of sound orbits and creates a unique kinetic and polyphonic work, in the likeness of the «Cosmic ballet» to which the physicist Johannes Kepler refers to in his «Music of spheres» in 1619.

theorbit:

“we are attemping to survive our time so we may live into yours”

Agora 12, Dauphins Architecture, Bordeaux, France.

absentmindeddrawing:

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations, Sound Architectures

Im awestruck. This is amazing and simple.

‘Ice’ - A sculpture representing the atomic structure of ice in porcelain and glass by Alexandra Carr

Further works found here…

http://alexandracarr.co.uk

Photographs by Stuart Beesley

http://stuartbeesley.co.uk/

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

paper marbling  caterinasforzas

fill a tray with water. blow, fan, stir, dab, and drag paint or colored ink across its surface. put a sheet of washi paper on top to stain it with the floating art.

though called “turkish” paper marbling by europeans, this design technique was developed in east asia, central asia, and the islamic world. it is an important part of turkic, tajik, indian, and other asian and middle eastern cultures.

The Psychedelic Art of Paper Marbling

Oguz Uygur, a Turkish filmmaker, documents his parents’ craft of Ebru, transforming floating inks into delicate patterns. Using close-ups and shallow depth of field, he captures the detail in their artistry, which involves mixing inks with thin wires.

Seyit UYGUR { Ebru Artist } from Oguz Uygur on Vimeo.

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

IC 1396: The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula  

By  thespacegod

source: thespacegod

astroanarchy.zenfolio.com 

An ionized gas region located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth; it is commonly called the Elephant’s Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. [image via]

(Originally from spacegoat)

myampgoesto11:

Time-lapse light photography by Caleb Charland

• Atomic Model, 2008
• Helix with matchsticks, 2005
• Bouncing pen light, 2008
• Cube with Ruler and Penlight, 2007
• Fifteen Hours, 2006

experimentsinmotion:

Dark Senses

A series of moving explorations using magnetized liquid and suspended metals. via