The idea here is that when you remove the cork, the bottle will record whatever sound is present and store it in a bank of sounds. It then uses the sounds to generate a sort of techno dance song. I could do without the remix, but the idea of uncorking a bottle to capture sounds is really cool.
Do you happen to remember the little video vignettes that appeared in commercial breaks when Rachel's Drift book first came out? I don't even have one to link to because I don't think we ever encoded any of them for the Web, but basically it was a slow pan on a still photo of a staff member reading Drift with natural sound from the setting where we took the photo - what they call "nat sound."
I frequently refer colleagues to the panoramas.dk site where 360° still photos are paired with natural audio as an example of really effective, compelling media that in some cases is even better than if the same thing had been done with a video camera.
This sound bottle project reminds me of the smell-o-rama machine Odorifics from the movie Harold & Maude. The smell-o-rama used canisters of familiar smells that could be inhaled through a face mask an offered new nuances with each breath. It'd be nice to have a mini-bar of corked sound bottles to revisit times and places.
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Not here, not now. I know. I get it.
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Because I was a real Harold and Maude geek in the day, you'll forgive me if I say that I think Maude called the smells "odorifics". I'm not sure she had a name for the smell machine itself. Pretty sure, IIRC, it wasn't a "smell-orama". Nevertheless, as with you, that idea has stayed with me ever since I first saw that movie. It made me pay more attention to the everyday sensations around me. Certain smells can evoke dense panoramas of memories, can't they? And that movie made me who I am today -- I wanted to grow up to be an eccentric old lady, but then thought, "Why wait?"
AH! Y'know, I didn't think smell-o-rama sounded familiar but it came up as a recommended search term so I figured that was it (even though the search didn't give me the scene like I was hoping). Of course, as soon as I search for odorifics I get exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Always perfectly happy to share some of my geekery! Glad to help :)
weird. in an undeniably catchy sort of way.
Sorry, music snob and that is remedial.
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Reminds me of Slow Glass, a material used in Bob Shaw's Light of Other Days, a sci-fi story based on the idea of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC)... Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein worked out the details in the 1920's... The unusual optical properties of BECs were predicted at that time...
Bose-Einstein condensates have optical densities such that the speed of light passing through the mass is extremely low - walking speed as opposed to its usual 186,000 miles per second.... The most important effect, in the eyes of the average individual, was that light took a long time to pass through a sheet of slow glass. A new piece was always jet black because nothing had yet come through, but one could stand the glass beside, say, a woodland lake until the scene emerged, perhaps a year later. If the glass was then removed and installed in a dismal city flat, the flat would—for that year—appear to overlook the woodland lake...
If an event, say, perhaps, a murder, were to take place in front of a pane of slow glass, it would not be seen on the other side until the time period for that pane passed, allowing it to be recorded as if it were happening at that time...
Little did I know, until I started researching this post, that this story anticipates the successful creation of Bose-Einstein condensates in 1995... Bose-Einstein condensates are created when atoms are cooled to absolute zero; the atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state, producing a superfluid... Bose-Einstein condensates have optical densities such that the speed of light passing through the mass is extremely low - walking speed as opposed to its usual 186,000 miles per second...
Reminds me of a quirky little book titled Savvy in which the grandma has the ability to catch sounds out of the air. She stores her favorites in little jars, like preserves, in the pantry. She opens a lid when she wants to hear a favorite song or radio program from long ago; no electronics needed.