Occasional posts on subjects including field recording, London history and literature, other websites worth looking at, articles in the press, and news of sound-related events.
WHILE READING UP on jet engine noise I came across a reference to a Make Magazine article on building your own pulse jet from a jam jar.
How could you not want to make one? The article itself is only available to subscribers, but fortunately there’s this video on YouTube:
The jam jar jet makes a surprisingly loud noise like the revving of an internal combustion engine. Something to do for Boxing Day, perhaps.
The balloonist in the desert is dreaming
The Binaural Diaries of Ollie Hall
The Ragged Society of Antiquarian Ramblers
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology