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The Return of Amateur Science: "Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder explains how the natural tinkerers who built the web are starting to hack the world.
Last week, while browsing the Popular Science archives (which recently became available on Google), I noticed that the earlier issues of this 138-year-old magazine contained quite a few articles devoted to amateur science. The 1940s and 1950s were a heyday for basement-based research, with experiments such as making hydrogen gas, building a photomicrographic camera out of a stovepipe, constructing…

(Via GOOD - Blogs)

Scientists try to let the blind 'see' fish: "As brightly colored fish dart in and out of the rocks scattered in a small aquarium, a bewildering melody follows each of their movements.
Video here.
(Via USATODAY.com Science and Space - Top Stories)

Friends Michele Darling and Terry Golob relaunch the website for their aerostatic music project today.

An RSS feed for their news is here.

Todd Thille built the site with Drupal and custom PHP.

Duncan Laurie and David Last will perform "The Secret Music of Plants" at The Stone in NYC on Dec 9th beginning at 10pm.

From The Stone website:

Duncan Laurie (plant interface artist) David Last (plant interpreter)
House plants connected to lie detector equipment produce alien tones.

Richard Devine and Josh Kay have recently launched a commercial sound design company.

Devinesound is a sound design and music production facility that focuses solely on creating utterly unique & uncompromisingly high resolution sound design, sound effect and sample libraries. We specialize in the creation of custom sound design environments & custom sound effects packages for projects of almost any nature. We provide audio content, sound design and conceptual realization for film, television, gaming systems, audio hardware/software, interactive web-based environments, and everything else in between. We are currently building a online sound library database & store from which free samples will be offered regularly.

Many of the samples on their first two sound libraries released on Sony Creatve Software - Sound Series, The Electronic Music Manuscript: A Richard Devine Collection and Pulse: Pure Analog Lifeforms, were recorded during visits to Dragonline Studio over the past two summers.

Keep up to date with Richard and Josh's activities at the DEVSND blog.