Comments on: The most organic oscillator in the world

By: frederik

frederik — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:11:46 +0000

Hi,

I’ve made some installation with electric fishes. Feel free to check one of them out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvLctD62G58

Enjoy,

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:18:53 +0000

Cool! I did an art piece (photo + sound) about a situation in Marin, California where people living in house boats were being haunted by another type of sound producing fish (the midshipmen):
http://art.jaywar.com/photographs/sound-with-pictures/sausalito-houseboats/

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:14:28 +0000

For starters one could take this soundbyte of the fish and slow it down, stretch it out, change the pitch, see if there is a pattern. It’s sound, and I wonder how many Hz it is.
I would have a much bigger tank with things the fish could echolocate –perhaps also other fish it does not eat. I would have to learn more about taking care of fish and keeping aquariums before I did this.
Also, there is the trick of playing the fish’s clicks back to him, seeing what that produces.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:17:23 +0000

I’d imagine that if you somehow hooked up the fish to a series of guitar pedals, you could then affect the sound in many many ways! I too wanna do some Interesting funn stuff! though I hear they don’t go well with another Elephant nose fish.. too aggressive.

By: Paul Szego

Paul Szego — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:37:45 +0000

Alright, I gotta ask (cause I have no idea about how to do these things or if they’re even possible):

What do I need to hook up to use the random ossilations from this very cool fish, to change the frequency/envelope in some cool way? All I want is the tank, what ever equipment I need, and a knob that lets me muck with some facet of the sound.

How do I turn this fish into the engine of sound? Please help me out, and then I’m off to the pet store!