Radiolab

What’s so interesting about the cicada sounds is, when you just hear it for the first time you just hear white noise—you just hear ssshhhhhhh. Just noise. But when you know what’s going on, you can hear the different parts of the orchestra.

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—	David Rothenberg teaches you to hear all the parts of the cicada sex orchestra in our brand-new short.

Isao Hashimoto’s extraordinary musical map of every nuclear explosion since 1945.

To the extent there can BE such a thing as an audio infographic, this is it.

motherjones:

Lunch break: William Stout’s 100 Cartoon Portraits of Legendary Blues Artists.

These are so wonderful. If you want more Robert Johnson, check out our story, Crossroads.

The symmetrical pleasures of Lucius at NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert.

Was Beethoven using a broken metronome? »

…and other pressing questions about the great Ludwig van B. in our new short.

Artist j.viewz makes beautiful music with a little help from the produce aisle (via @medialab)

explore-blog:

A music video shot entirely inside an MRI machine from British singer-songwriter Sivu.

(↬ Open Culture)

photojojo:

So many yesses!

These photos are of violinist Jascha Heifetz as photographed by Gjon Mili in 1952 for LIFE Magazine.

Those squiggles are exactly what you suspect they are — a light attached to Jascha’s bow.

Violin Lightpaintings

Thanks, Darrell!

Love.

staceythinx:

The Colour of Popular Music and Song by the creative house Dorothy

Dorothy on the project:

From Black Sabbath to The White Stripes, Purple Rain to Pale Blue Eyes. Our two new litho prints feature colour wheels made up entirely from the names of bands and songs with colours in the title.

The Colour of Popular Music [features] the names of 154 bands (and artists) and The Colour of Song [features] the titles of 576 songs

Super snazzy!

(By the way, if you like songs about colors, we have something for you.)

ukehunt:

Buke and Gase have released a new song Hard Times along with this cover of Blue Monday (as heard on Radiolab) to raise money for Sandy Relief in Red Hook.

You can buy it on their Bandcamp.

We heart Buke and Gase.

everybodytosafety:

Reverend John Delore - Crossroads

I was fortunate enough to see John Delore perform at an open mic last night at Conor Byrne in Seattle. He’s in town from Brooklyn on tour with RadioLab as their audio guy. Had a great little chat with him too, great talker.

This is not the kind of music I normally listen to or seek out, but something was right in the moment, this music, this guy, that bar. I really love his brand of indie Americana type stuff. Check him out on Facebook, Twitter and Bandcamp.

We are so lucky to work with this talented dude.

Billboard Magazine in Brazil had the great idea to propose a contest of guitar solos performed with a urinal. Having the appearance of a guitar, the sound of the urine is converted into a guitar solo to save and share.

A funny and successful idea of AlmapBBDO.

Dear Universe, Why do dudes get to have all the fun? Signed, Ladies.