[eu-gene] sonification

[John Eacott]

Hi Douglas,
there are some recordings and video of my sonification works 'Flood Tide' and 'Hour Angle' here:
http://www.informal.org/previous.htm

let me know if you'd like any more information about them, 
john


On 7 Apr 2011, at 15:17, douglas repetto wrote:

> 
> I'm teaching a couple classes in Berlin this spring/summer, one called Feedback and one called Transduction. It occurs to me that they're both related to Phil's recent call for non-software-based generative art and the sonification thread. Descriptions below if you're in Berlin and looking for things to do this spring! (I'll ask you all for feedback suggestions in another email.)
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> One question I like to ask about sonification/visualization projects is whether they're actually sensitive to the _content_ of their inputs.
> 
> I think of things like iTunes visualizers as basically tuned filters -- it really doesn't matter what you feed into them, they're going to ring as long as there's some energy in the appropriate part of the spectrum (literally or metaphorically). You can't undo a filter -- you lose information when a signal goes through it, and lots of different signals can cause the same or very similar outputs. The effect of the filter's parameters overwhelms the content of the signal.
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> So what's the alternative? One problem with systems that are sensitive to the content of their inputs is that they're a LOT harder to create. The more tweaking you do to your system to make it sensitive to the content of particular inputs, the closer you get to a more traditional notion of composition. I think that in many ways tone poems were vaguely generative examples of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonic_poem) -- one particular painting or poem or ? generates one particular musical work.
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> The contemporary work that I find most interesting tends to be somewhere between these two extremes. Somehow generative and "live", but at the same time not simply a filter. Messa di Voce is a lovely example:
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> http://www.flong.com/projects/messa/
> 
> douglas
> 
> (Berlin classes below)
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> +++++++
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> Feedback
> This class will examine the physical, electrical, and conceptual aspects of feedback that are at the core of many mechanical and algorithmic music/art-making systems. It is a very hands-on, process-based course, and we will build physical, electrical, and virtual feedback systems, play and invent feedback games, and create artworks that use feedback as an organizing principal.
> http://www.ak.tu-berlin.de/menue/lehre/sommersemester_2011/feedback/
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> Transduction
> In this class we will treat sound as an intermediary, translating back and forth between text/image/motion/thought and sound. We will explore the practice and pitfalls of mapping information from one domain to another, and will approach current trends in data visualization and sonification with skeptical eyes and ears. This will be a largely code-based class, and students will learn basic techniques for the collection, analysis, mapping, and synthesis of data in a variety of media and formats.
> http://www.ak.tu-berlin.de/menue/lehre/sommersemester_2011/transduction/
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> 
>>> To add a critical voice, Sarah Angliss offers some insight into data
>>> sonification:
>>>  http://madartlab.com/2011/03/15/eulernumberfish/
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