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Mike
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Senior Lecturer in Acoustics & Audio Signal Processing (University of Edinburgh), interested in #acoustics, sensor design & fab, #bioacoustics, and musical instruments

Also mountains and rivers and things that live on and in them

https://selfnoise.co.uk
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New event! We're delighted to open up tomorrow morning's talk by composer Aaron Wyanski on his series (sic) "Schoenberg in hifi". Full details here: digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/...
The composer Arnold Schoenberg sits in a mid-century swivel chair and smiles for the camera — wait what? Schoenberg smiling?
February 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Fresh from the mind-blowing experience of Monday's crab 'n' cod concert, we're back to thinking about humans. Can they compose, rehearse and perform an opera in just five days? Find out on Friday at the #WeekOfSound @edincollegeofart.bsky.social

digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/...
Friday – UNESCO Week of Sound in Edinburgh
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February 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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UNESCO Week of Sound @weekofsound.bsky.social:

Come & learn Gaelic stories and songs of the sea with Margaret Bennett.

Free workshop - 2.30pm, Wednesday 19 February, St Cecilia’s Hall – free & open to all:
digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/...

📸: Samuel Scrimshaw, Unsplash
A photograph of the head of a diving seal, underwater. There’s a Week of Sound logo bottom left – a circle of white dots, arranged in a similar pattern to that you’d see on a loudspeaker. There’s a UNESCO Week of Sound logo in the bottom right.
February 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Energy,

not forms,

not figures:

Hear one of Rebecca Collins' final works, a collaboration with Adam Matschulat, next Tuesday at the #WeekOfSound in #Edinburgh
digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/...
Rebecca Collins stands looking at an installation peace containing the words "Energies, not forms, not figures (chant)".
February 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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UNESCO Week of Sound in Edinburgh 2025: WAVES
Programme online now!
digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/
A page from a book by Ernst Chladni showing illustrations of the patterns created by material strewn on resonant surfaces as part of his experiments in acoustics. The patterns include what look like four, six, eight and fourteen-point starbursts, among other things. A humpback whale in the ocean: the side of its head is visible, its eye is open and looking in the direction of the vessel from which the photograph was taken.
January 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Tomorrow's forecast for Ben More, by Crianlarich, is a touch breezy #stormeowyn
January 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Acoustic properties of rock sites may have inspired prehistoric art phys.org/news/2024-11...
Acoustic properties of rock sites may have inspired prehistoric art
Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks,...
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November 26, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago.

They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.
Two scribes depicted in an ancient Assyrian low relief, using styluses to write on clay tablets. A cuneiform tablet with writing on it.
November 17, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Here is some blue sky acoustics-related content for a first post. A hyrdophone and some gorilla tape, in a river, somewhere.
November 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM