Sound and Music

Something which has been pointed about this year's football World Cup has been the sound at matches.  Many fans in South Africa have been bringing Vuvuzelas- long fixed-pitch horns and playing them in the crowd.

Wow.  A sinister superseeding of sound over music in Somalia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/world/africa/14somalia.html?hp

Home taping killed music.  It unspooled its tape loop around a metaphorical neck and gave it a metaphysical squeeze.  Cassette culture - that currently flash and zombified byproduct of the format death whose early reports were so greatly exagerrated - celebrates one particularly vivid milestone with the quartocentennial of Korm Plastics, the Dutch label run by Frans de Waard. 

Papa Sangre is a new video gama that doesn't use image but sound to immerse the player.

"It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device."

27 March
ICA, London

Interesting article...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8526699.stm