Noise for Airports + Orchestrion

Noise for Airports is a cool new blog that features interesting audio-related experiments + ideas. It's written by Nick Seaver, a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT who wrote his undergrad thesis at Yale on the relationship between social conceptions of noise + recording technologies: “Noise in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility” [pdf].

Plus, I'm a fan of noise, and Noise for Airports is a great name for a sound blog that plays on the concepts of Brian Eno.

Here's a youtube video I found on Noise for Airports of an Orchestrion similar to the one I checked out recently at the Mansion:



This Seeburg Model H Orchestrion was restored by Reblitz Restorations in Colorado Springs for Johnny and Tish Duckworth.