Speed of sound festival at Farnborough Wind Tunnels

[MrGongGong]

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/speed-of-sound-aerodynamics-and-experimental-acoustics-tickets-11686028225

This looks like a really interesting excursion
yet another one I will miss due to other things

Speed of Sound - Aerodynamics and experimental acoustics
Speed of Sound interprets a history of aero-acoustic advancement through a half-day of talks and performances reactiviating the decommissioned space of Q121 and remarkable air return duct. Manipulation of acoustics plays an important role for twenty-first century developments in aviation and experimental music. Investigating ideas of noise and turbulence, and approaches to sensing and recording, this event converges findings in aerodynamics and experimental sound practices as invited artists and speakers engage with the physical uses of sound.

[Richard Barrett]

I must have been away for too long, I haven't heard of any of those people...

[MrGongGong]

I think it's encouraging for it not to be the usual suspects
(who are probably at NIME ?)

[Richard Barrett]

(who are probably at NIME ?)

Is it just me or is there something ahem kind of masturbatory about that event?

[MrGongGong]

Is it just me or is there something ahem kind of masturbatory about that event?

Compared to ?

Or are you quoting a rather well known composer and academic that I suspect we both know ?

[Richard Barrett]

I think it's the joysticks that do it.

No, I wasn't quoting anyone and I'm not competely sure I know who you mean, but I see all these quite fascinating bits of technology turning up and nobody seems to have any idea how to do anything interesting with them (of course that isn't a criterion when applying for a research grant ), or if they do they can't afford them...

[Serial_Apologist]

Pull the other one - it's got bells on.

[amateur51]

Is it just me or is there something ahem kind of masturbatory about that event?

Prof Joad applies ...

[MrGongGong]

I think it's the joysticks that do it.

No, I wasn't quoting anyone and I'm not competely sure I know who you mean, but I see all these quite fascinating bits of technology turning up and nobody seems to have any idea how to do anything interesting with them (of course that isn't a criterion when applying for a research grant ), or if they do they can't afford them...

What is encouraging to me is that much of this work is now well and truly out of the ghetto of academia and less dependent on the "tradition". NOT that there is anything intrinsically wrong with much of that tradition.