Warden Point sound mirror on YouTube
February 18th, 2010Diagonal thoughts
February 7th, 2010Sound Mirrors at Diagonal Thoughts, “some notes on seeing and being, sound and image, media and memory”.
Abbot’s Cliff photo
January 31st, 2010Sound Mirror on cliffs above Dover at Exploring the Kent Coast (and a bit of E. Sussex) by Sally Swan.
Hidden Teesside
November 8th, 2009Sonic Marshmallow interview
October 7th, 2009Graphics.com has an interview with Troika Design Studios which discusses the “Sonic Marshmallows” sound mirror-inspired installation at Wat Tyler country park in Essex.
We see Sonic Marshmallows more as a manifestation of people’s desire to interact with each other, rather than with things. Sonic Marshmallows can be used only in conjunction with another user. Sound mirrors were originally used on the coast of Kent to detect incoming enemy planes, not far from the location were Sonic Marshmallows is installed now. We used the same technology in a way that enables people to communicate with each other instead.
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Designing for Human Behavior
September 27th, 2009Garrett G Jones on sound mirrors at the Designing for Human Behavior blog at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture:
…. Microphones placed at foci the of the reflectors enabled a listener to detect the sound of aircrafts several kilometers out in the English Channel. My idea takes this primitive device and relocates it within modern contexts. Sound mirrors or sound theatres can be used at a more urban or residential scale as installations for people to sit and interact within. The premise is to sit within the concrete dome, which could be oriented in any direction, and that sounds of the surroundings become amplified as they are reflected and echoed within the dome.
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Hythe and Denge photos
September 6th, 2009Talking parabolicality
August 30th, 2009
Douglas Butler illustrates how to create an Autograph file to test the parabolicality of a sound mirror, at the Association of Teachers of Mathematics website.
Boffins in Britain
August 23rd, 2009Alec Muffett at Dropsafe on sound mirrors.
Britain is a hothouse of brains and creativity, doubly-so for having to make-do-and-mend from underinvesment and underappreciation, and this leads to startling solutions that fuel incredible innovation - even if most of those subsequently flop for lack of business nous.
Occasionally, these innovations leave footprints in the sand. Bletchley Park is onesuch. Another of which I have long known a little, but never known a lot, are the sound mirrors.
Music from the weather through sound mirrors
August 16th, 2009Inspired by sound mirrors, someone suggests musicalizing a weather system through landscape architecture.
BLDGBLOG here proposes a series of sound mirrors to be built in a landscape with regular, annual wind phenomena. A distant gully, moaning at 2am every second week in October, every year, due to northern winds from Canada, has its low, droning, cliff-created reverb carefully echoed back up a chain of sound mirrors to supply natural soundscapes for the sleeping residents of nearby towns.
Or a crevasse that actually makes no sound at all has a sound mirror built nearby, which then amplifies and redirects the ambient air movements, coaxing out a tone – but only for the first week of March. Annually.
