Here’s a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them. Only in Japan… (Thanks Dan and Carlo!) Melodic highway.
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Musical Japanese road
Here’s a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them. Only in Japan… (Thanks Dan and Carlo!) Melodic highway.
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actually, this was experimented with by the Disney folks several years ago at Walt Disney World in Fla. There’s reportedly still a section of road there with grooves that plays “Zippety Doo Dah”. Don’t ask me where, though.
I wouldn’t have noticed that this was ment to be music at all. Maybe I’m not of the musical kind but I recognise neither rythm nor melody. In fact I don’t really hear any, just pitched noise.
In the late 80s a friend and I thought it would be cool to carve grooves to make the “Close Encounters” theme in the straight roadway leading to Devil’s Tower (location featured in the movie).
It sounds like someone farting a tune.
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