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Fantastic short film/documentary on Shinya Kimura by director Henrik Hansen. This is 165 seconds of video and audio that is well produced, briskly paced and crisply edited. (Seriously, the sound production is pretty exceptional.)

And of course, the bike is just plain wicked.

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  • custom, japanese, motorbike, shinya kimura, sound

 
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  • minimal, sonar, sound, video, visualization

 

A good idea and a pretty good (though simplistic) execution

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  • audio, flash, loop, mix, sound, user interface

 

From an acoustical perspective, music is an overstructured language, which the brain invented and which the brain loves to hear.

›› Michael Thaut, a professor of music and neuroscience

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  • brain, human, joke, memory, research, sound

 

That’s right, folks… Denon’s AK-DL1 is an ultra premium Denon Link cable that costs almost half a grand. The killer feature probably is the ’signal directional markings’ for ‘optimum signal transfer’, seeing as how the audio/data signals need little arrows to know which way to go. Wow, That’s Fabulous!

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  • audiophile, scam, sound

 

Almost eight years old, but Dialtones (A Telesymphony) is an awesome software, idea and performance all rolled into one big ball of awesomeness.

[Via It’s Nice That]

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  • computer, concert, mobile, sound, soundscapes

 

Sweet art direction and crisp colours

Interesting promo site for IKEA — upload your own MP3, play with a keyboard-driven drum kit or shout into your computer’s microphone and see the action. Pretty fun, even funny, and beautifully executed but somehow seems a pointless: I really don’t see how sound will make all the difference if I am buying a cupboard.
But, hey… you know… it’s really nice.

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  • concept, drum, funny, furniture, input, sound, sweden

 

So a couple days (or was it weeks) ago, I saw this comic from the ever excellent xkcd and thought it was pretty funny. Today, I find out that YouTube really implemented it!

See the new button 'Audio Preview'; it is where 'Post Comment' used to be!

The audio playback is pretty good (though it unsurprisingly muddles through lorem ipsum text). One can only hope users guilty of idiot comments will suffer unspeakable blows to their self-esteem from this new feature.

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  • comic, comments, community, sound, user interface, users, video, virus, youtube

 
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  • animator, Art, artist, digital, programmer, psychedelic, sound, video

 

A cute amplifier that you can tote along with your portable MP3 player

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  • amplifier, bass, battery, mp3, sound, treble, USB

 
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  • mod, sound, wav, windows, windows 98, windows xp

 

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