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Here you can see one of the wires going across the side of the hill. The wires vibrate in the wind, and with various other inputs either man-made or natural. and the vibrations are picked up by peizo pickups on the wires.

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wiredlab

About a month ago we went on a massive expedition, driving over 1000km in 2 days, all in the name of going to see a gig.

The gig in question was the WIREDLAB open day, featuring music by Alan Lamb, Oren Ombarchi, Gary Bradbury, Dave Noyze and Robin Fox (pictured).

wiredlab.ning.com/profiles/blogs/wooo-weeeeeeee

Alan Lamb sets up these huge wires stretched across hillsides, and records motion in the wires set up by the movement of air, raindrops, insects, and sometimes injects motion into the wire by various oscillatory devices. Hearing them firsthand was a pretty amazing experience. More to come.


Check out a video of the kinds of things we heard here

blip.tv/file/2797963/
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Yokohama crosswalk

Not all crosswalks in Japan are like the one in Shibuya.

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