Category: Media
Since I am currently searching for a new job (mail me, if you have one to offer :-), I added a list publications to my homepage. If you are interested in one with upcoming papers, please email me, and I will send it to you.
Some time ago, I posted an idea on transferring data via sound between computers. Today I were stumbled upon a paper on exactly this. It provides a really nice overview on common technology to use sound as a transfer medium for data.
Thanx to Florian for pointing me on it and Sebastian, who found the link to the html.
Da haben die Piraten ja anscheinend guten Einfluss.
Es reicht nicht, den Nerd zu feiern. Es werden sich alle einlassen müssen auf die Digitalisierung: Computerkids und Feuilletonredakteure, Frau von der Leyen und die Hacker vom Chaos Computer Club.
Hard Data by R. Luke DuBois
Hard Data is a data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq as source material for an interactive audiovisual composition based around an open-source “score” of events. Using Xenakis’ understanding of formalized music as a starting point, DuBois draws upon a variety of statistical data ranging from the visceral (civilian deaths, geospatial renderings of military actions) to the mundane (fiscal year budgets for the war) to generate a dataset that can be used for any number of audiovisual compositions. The intention of the project is to recontextualize the formal stochastic music in the context of real-world statistics, and to provide a compositional and metaphoric framework for creating an electroacoustic music relevant and significant to our time.
Hard Data description via turbulence.org
iBlogger seems to be pretty easy.
Just sitting in my flat and typing into the iPod. Kindof cool…
This work by Ramsay Stirling is truly inspiring, and inspiringly true.
[From Rhizome.org: Internet Delivers People (2008) - Ramsay Stirling]
Wait until the very end. It is worth it.
Too Many Gadgets is a live-coding group that attempts to capture the relationship of space, sound and vision. Their latest project …between… was shown at the Nacht der Klänge 2008 at Bielefeld University.
Something I thought of long time ago. I find it a lot easier to tap rhythms with my fingers then playing a drum(kit). This glove with sensory-enhanced fingertips and corresponding headphones connected to a drum sequencer will do a rough mix of my (and your) instinctive rhythmical ideas. It’s design seems a bit awkward, but the idea is great. Would enjoy it. Really. But, unfortunately it is a design study. Pity.
Pretty weird to find a juggling maniac with experiences in computer vision at a conference like Pervasive, but I fortunately did! I’m pretty excited about it.
Awesome simple; Simply awesome.
q = ();
s.boot;
// get sounds
q.soundFiles = SoundFile.collect(
"/localvol/sound/share/audiosamples/freesound/birdsong/*.wav"
);
// play back in order of their appearance
Pseq(q.soundFiles.collect{|file| file.cue((\dur: file.duration))}, 1).play;
[this particular example plays back files downloaded from a freesound samplepack]
A catch-all term for all those aspects of a sound not included in pitch and duration. Of no value to the sound composer!
[Trevor Wishart: Audible design – A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Sound Composition, Glossary]
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The design of electronic documents is not “technology,”
dictated by necessity like plumbing or aerodynamics.
It is design, a system of conscious decisions
about the way things should be–
like architecture, music or game design.
The design of our electronic documents has shaped
today’s world.
And so far it has been simpleminded, shallow
and darkly limiting.
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Now have added Lightbox to my weblog. Neat little toy…
[ lightbox home ]
Die Lektüre macht sich schon bezahlt…
q.e.d.
Mediale Excesse; jeder vesucht alles und jeden auf seinen Geräten festzuhalten. Das Ereignis selbst wird zu einer bloßen Rohmaterialschlacht. Dabei wird die Schönheit des vergänglichen Augenblicks, also des eigentlichen Ereignisses “Konzert” oder “Performance”, welche etwas anderes ist als das mit den vielen Digitalkameras aufgenommene nicht mehr beachtet.
Schade.
[lotsof cams on a concert]
Morgen, 3.10.2006 im CUBE des IEM: Jonglage und Sound – Jonas Groten und Till Bovermann; Entstanden im Rahmen des SonEnvir-Projektes, 2006.
[ Das Programm ]
Noah Vawter uses a special headphones system to transform the current surrounding soundscape into something different. His system called Ambient Addition will be presented at the dorkbot-nyc meeting.
In his thesis he writes many details on which hardware to choose and why it is difficult to use the iPod as a platform
Similar Projects:
Sonic interface
Electrical Walks
[image linked from WmMnA]
A nice work on using haptics in HCI called Terrain of information is shown at Interaction-Ivrea.
A mouse-like interface attached with a convertable surface is used to navigate through a (for now faked) apple Finder window. Each direktory hovered over with the “mouse” is represented by a bump on the surface. It’s size directly corresponds to the size of the hovered directory.
[image from We make money not art ]
This reminds me of two earlier works:
- A work done at Bielefeld University in the iLab by Matthias Milczynski et al. called A malleable device with applications to sonification-based data exploration or in short MUI [ abstract and sound examples | paper ]
- The Sonic Finder by William Gaver, an extension/replacement to the Finder as found in MacOS. Information like the size of the selected directory are presented to the user by an auditory feedback.
[image from the MUI as it appears in the paper]
[ Terrain of information via We make money not art | Interaction-Ivrea ]
Max Frisch: Der Laie und die Architektur auch sehr schön. Insbesondere, weil Frisch hier auch auf das LeCorbusier Hauskonzept Unité d’Habitation eingegeht, und die Städteplanung sehr subtil beschreibt und aburteilt.
Etwas seltsam, und heutzutage nicht mehr tragfähig ist allerdings die Rolle der Frau in diesem Radiofeature.
Ãœbrigens hat bei diesem Feature ein gewisser Martin Walser mitgewirkt, allerdings als technischer Angestellter, und nicht als Autor.
[src: wikipedia]
Technorati Tags: aesthetics, architecture, art
So sieht meine bisherige Reiseroute aus.
Irgendwie seltsam, dass man immer für das weiteste Stück verhältnismäßig wenig Zeit braucht. Und letzten Endes ist es dann plötzlich wieder ein ganzer Tag, der mit Reisen verbracht wird.
In Düsseldorf am Flughafen hatte ich ca. 3 Stunden Zeit, mir war mal wieder nicht klar, wie schnell man durch die (innereuropäische Linienflug-)Gepäckkontrolle kommt. Aber ich hatte mir am abend vorher Mein Name sei Gantenbein, gelesen und von Max Frisch auf meinen iPod gezogen, und hier hatte ich dann Zeit mir das anzuhören. Sehr schön, kann ich nur empfehlen… Insbesondere wegen der fesselnden Art wie Frisch seinen Text vorträgt.
Hier am IEM gibt es eine sehr kleine aber feine Bibliothek (für den internen Gebrauch), welche im Prinzip nur Bücher über Sound und/oder Programming hat.
Wahrscheinlich nicht wirklich interessant für all jene, die nicht hier sind, aber mich hat es sehr gefreut… und jetzt gehe ich mir glich mal ein Buch ausleihen… :-)
and of course I had to buy books in London…
1. Langtangen: Python Scripting for Computational Science
2. Stiny: Shape; Talking about Seeing and Doing
Now I have to carry them back home…