meara o'reilly’s Videos

Harmoniset National Sawdust, 2019

from meara o'reilly / Added 6 years ago 648 1 0

A piece of music commissioned by National Sawdust, and premiered at the 2019 Hildegard Competition Concert. Conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya, and performed by The National Sawdust Ensemble, featuring…

Moon

from meara o'reilly / Added 13 years ago 7,109 18 0

A collaboration with Snibbe Interactive and Björk on concert visuals for the Biophilia tour. Cymatic patterns were synced to the basslines of songs and played as introductions. Video was designed…

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Rhythm Necklaces

from meara o'reilly / Added 12 years ago 3,690 38 0

Note: Please wear headphones to hear all of the effects presented here. This project explores auditory perception as related to Euclidean algorithms, the mathematical properties of which are useful…

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Moon

from meara o'reilly / Added 13 years ago 12.1K 52 1

A collaboration with Snibbe Interactive and Björk on concert visuals for the Biophilia tour. Cymatic patterns were synced to the basslines of songs and played as introductions. Video was designed…

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Chladni Singing

from meara o'reilly / Added 16 years ago 100K 636 12

A work in progress by Meara O'Reilly, film by Lisa Foti-Straus. Salt is scattered on a metal plate electronically driven and sung into. Songs are written based on sequences of patterns in the…

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Esse Idem Esse (for Auerglass)

from meara o'reilly / Added 3 years ago 290 1 0

A piece by Meara O'Reilly, performed at the SFMOMA on April 28th 2022 by Nayoung Jung and Michelle Moeller. This video is from a rehearsal on April 27th. The Auerglass pipe organ was created…

Broken Glass

from meara o'reilly / Added 15 years ago 11.4K 7 3

If you look closely, you can see that the shards of glass are not only continuing to fall apart, they are actually popping apart with force! Any ideas about why this is happening?

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Hollow

from meara o'reilly / Added 13 years ago 26.1K 92 1

A collaboration with Snibbe Interactive and Björk on concert visuals for the Biophilia tour. Cymatic patterns were synced to the basslines of songs and played as introductions. Video was designed…

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Cosmogony

from meara o'reilly / Added 13 years ago 7,228 60 1

A collaboration with Snibbe Interactive and Björk on concert visuals for the Biophilia tour. Cymatic patterns were synced to the basslines of songs and played as introductions. Video was designed…

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Scale Illusion

from meara o'reilly / Added 12 years ago 40K 16 0

Here are two different melodies played one after the other, immediately followed by them both at once. What do you hear when they are played together? What's Happening? On its own, neither…

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Mysterious Melody

from meara o'reilly / Added 10 years ago 6,823 11 0

Can you tell what popular song this is? What about when the notes are all put back into their proper octave range? This demonstration is a version of Diana Deutsch's Mysterious Melody illusion.…

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Vegetable Trumpet

from meara o'reilly / Added 14 years ago 206 1 0

A young musician rapidly transposes a song he learned on trumpet to his new vegetable version.

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