Emblema CCVIII Buxus

Alciato's Book of Emblems

Emblem 208
The box tree

The box tree is always green and has a curly head. From it is made the reed pipe with its uneven harmonies. It is suited to tender delights, and is a tree for lovers -- it has a pale colour, and every lover is pale. 

sensors / casts / sound

Wooden slit gongs

Wooden slit gongs played a pivotal role in Bamum society in Cameroon. Their function was to send out signals in times of crisis from within the royal court. By the time German colonists reached the Bamum kingdom for the first time in 1910, they found eight of these spectacular instruments, each hollowed out from a central slit, decaying on the palace ground like felled giants from a mythical past. Two French colonial administrators stationed in the Bamilike region noted that these gongs were carved when a king was enthroned; when he died they were abandoned in the market square and left to rot as if undergoing the same process of decomposition as the king himself.

Drum,_Akan_or_Fante_-_Glenbow_Museum

Audio stuff

http://aporee.org/
The largest online audio map, to which anyone who wants can upload their field recordings.

http://listen.hatnote.com/#en
Listen to the sound of Wikipedia's recent changes feed.

http://www.michaelgallagher.co.uk/how-to/starting-out-with-field-recording

http://quietamerican.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R63MOFTxx8
Nic Collins shows how to turn speakers into microphones, microphones into speakers. From the DVD in "Handmade Electronic Music -- The Art of Hardware Hacking" (Routledge 2009).

http://www.soundsofeurope.eu/about/

isochronicBrainwaveGenerator

http:http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/isochronicBrainwaveGenerator.php

http://onlinetonegenerator.com/