Tag Archives: noise
Busker Do
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Four buskers on Grafton Street, Dublin with their decibel levels
Shane D writes:
Further to all the Busking Noise Hullaballoo, some science is needed. I got interested in this one day during the summer when lots of buskers were out out of Grafton Street. I downloaded an app to measure decibels and which also allows you to take a photo of the source at the same time. The results were interesting.
The loudest busker I recorded was 93 decibels. That is almost four times louder than the average background street noise of about 74 decibels (The decibel scale is logarithmic). Most “miked-up” buskers came in at 90-92 decibels, though I once recorded one at 97 decibels! Non-boosted performers come in at 75-83 decibels. That is over five times times quieter than their electric cousins…
Bad Apple
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A cacophonous 4.6 million note ‘black MIDI’ version of Bad Apple (a track from the game franchise Touhou Project) by Impossible Music Factory.
The term Black MIDI refers to the musical notation of tracks in this genre which appear as a solid unreadable black mass.
Catchy though.
Global variants of woof, ribbit, quack and oink by physicist and cartoonist James Chapman.
More here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ubP5zHnlrE
Because snoring animals.
(H/T: Tudor Borisev)
On Bath Avenue, Sandymount, this lunchtime.
Andy Tyrrel writes:
Someone clearly unhappy with how the Bath is run…
Now that’s a cross trainer.
Claire Moran writes:
Thought you might like this – just found at the hall in my apartment block…
A promo for 3M noise-cancelling headphones by Grey Digital who combined ‘the skylines of large cities in the world, and sounds related to each one of them’.
Ironically, it’s a little disappointing when the lovely cacophany is neutralised by those damn spoilsport cans.
Nicely Saved
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Outside the Dail within the last hour were from top: Labour TD John Lyons and Senator Katherine Zappone (pic 1 and 2); Richard Smith; Michelle Crean; Chris Wong and members of Noise.
Noise are an “independent non-party political group campaigning for the provision of civil marriage for all people in Ireland irrespective of gender and sexual preference, and claim that the Civil Partnership Bill passed by the Dail does not go far enough, highlighting a lack of rights of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender parents and their children.”