The phenomena of encoding music and tones into road surfaces was originally discovered in the 1950s – using parallel corrugations in the tarmac. But it was not until 1995 that Danish artists Steen Krarup Jensen and Jakob Freud-Magnus invented the ‘Asphaltophone’. Today, ‘musical roads’, ‘singing roads’ and ‘melody roads’ can be found all over the world.
If the distance between the corrugations on a musical road is 16 cm:
(Assume the concert pitch was tuned at 440Hz.)
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This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.