Archive for May, 2011

What different sorting algorithms sound like

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

andrut (http://www.youtube.com/user/andrut) made a sonification of search algorithms.

“On every comparison of two numbers (elements) I play (mixing) sin waves with frequencies modulated by values of these numbers. There are quite a few parameters that may drastically change resulting sound – I just chose parameteres that imo felt best.” – andrut (video comment)



Scott Draves – Computer Graphics

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Electricsheep

Electric Sheep is probably the most famous work by Scott Draves. It generates graphics in a network with the logged in computers.
Besides he developed his own graphics library which is famous for its realistic fire/flame graphics. Read more in this interessting interview here:

http://www.triangulationblog.com/2011/01/scott-draves.html

See Scott Draves web-page:

http://scottdraves.com/about.html



Prepare performance for june

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Kai Siedenburg and I were working at the Elektronisches Studio | TU-Berlin on a new piece for saxophone and Max/Msp live-electronics for a live-performance on 16th June at ZKM-Karlsruhe.

The score-sketches provide several interpretation varieties for musicians and archeologists.



Herzlos..

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

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Flood Tide – John Eacott

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Flood Tide is a live sonification of water flow by John Eacott. It has been performed 10 times previous performances. First time was in June 2008.

project website: http://www.informal.org/floodtide.htm

See a documentation from this performance: Southbank, London 4th July 2010



messa di voce – audio video performances from 2003

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

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An Audiovisual Performance & Installation  for Voice and Interactive Media
by Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman with Jaap Blonk and Joan La Barbara
Created Summer 2003

It’s done by the developers of openframeworks! Just amazing!!

.. let’s see if this video becomes embedded automaticly??
http://www.tmema.org/messa/video/messa_ica1_jaapsolo_01s.mov

othervise here is the youtube version.

http://www.tmema.org/messa/messa.html
http://www.tmema.org/messa/messa.html#videos



“I AM SITTING IN A ROOM” (1969) by Alvin Lucier

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

“I AM SITTING IN A ROOM” (1969) by Alvin Lucier

for voice and electromagnetic tape.

Necessary Equipment:

1 microphone 2 tape recorders amplifier 1 loudspeaker

Choose a room the musical qualities of which you would like to evoke.

Listen to the original recording here: http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html

This principle is very simple, but the result is quiet impressive in the end you only hear the resonance of the room.