- @casualeveryday ever fix your computer playing music randomly? Mine is doing it! Was it some weird female vocal thing? #
- @casualeveryday thanks for heads up. I really thought I’d gone mad when it started, had no idea where it was coming from. cheers again. in reply to casualeveryday #
- @Kate_Butler http://tinyurl.com/cafbot – don’t worry, my laptop is playing music on its own! #
- think i have hay fever, twitter seems to confirm others do too… so maybe i do. Suppose that is preferred to a full on cold #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-04-12
I’ve considered making a kind of data to sound generator. Rather like Cornelia Solfrank’s Net Art generator, but like a sound art generator. This is a different approach, that I was led to by browsing Max Tundra’s brilliantly crazy website.
Daniel Cummerow has made various MIDI files (musical arrangements) that are generated by tapping into various areas of mathmatics. He’s producing the sound of maths. A fantastic idea. It also explains – to some extent – the multi-timbral soundscapes that Max Tundra produces.
Listen to an example of Daniel’s work, using Pascal’s Triangle. This is a MIDI file, most media players should be able to play it OK. Read about MIDI here.
I figured this was a cool example of how data meets art meets data.
Artful Data
- @Kate_Butler Dan Bridgewood-Hill is….. http://www.myspace.com/dbhguitar – and music editor of Blank now I think! in reply to Kate_Butler #
- @zimmyis maybe we could take turns Zimmy? If you like. Though maybe not, I can’t promise to get up in time. Hmmm. I’m useless! #
- is researching Twitter for the top secret Project 11. What are the pros and cons? Contrast with facebook & other networks. #
- I like it that the Mac I’m using has two mouse buttons! #
- The afternoon play on radio 4 is excellent today, something about carbon change. So entertainig, and pertinent. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-03-15
I took this strange composition just after new year, at my parents house. Always wash your fruit!
Pears & Tomatoes
- @robdunne ah ha! well done, on both counts. sounds excellent. just wondered cause folly keep popping up in my search for things to do… #
- sonification ideas; stock market, bank prices, value of artwork- what else? http://tinyurl.com/agq6w8 #
- @watershed1 – inclined to say “different”….. :o) #
- someone just followed me, with this; http://tweetergetter.com/laurarooney – …… Maaaaan #
- @Kate_Butler absolutely! Thankfully outweighed by positive things, like the word thingummywotsits. Also found DBH.. my sunday soundtrack atm in reply to Kate_Butler #
Twitter Updates for 2009-03-08
I’ve been thinking about Sonification (has a definition on Wikipedia, even if it isn’t a real word) of data for sometime. My first experiment used this blog. A hidden iFrame on the main page opened a page on a web server running off my laptop. These requests were then converted to audio and played out of the laptop’s speaker. I’m interested in the concept of listening to data all together, and in particular web / internet data is especially intriguing. Similarly I’ve recently become inspired by autonomous art works, things that do their own thing without intervention, and even better than that they do something entirely unpredictable.
My research has progressed, and now rather than using a simple PC speaker my software outputs MIDI information. That can then be interpreted by all means of other software, or even hardware synthesisers to actually turn the data into sound. Also I’ve stopped using this blog as the data source, I’ve actually obtained a months worth of web server log data. This has given me about 7 million records to use as my data set. Due to the way the software processes data the amount of time that it would take to “play” is equal to the amount of time that data took to collect. So, the months worth of data I’m using currently would actually take 1 month to listen to. Here’s a few excerpts from my current set up.
Example 1 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
The “rules” that the software adheres to are as follows.
- MIDI note is determined by an addition of each segment of the clients IP address, which is then divided by 8. The reasoning behind this is that there are 128 possible MIDI notes. The sum of IP address segments has 1024 different possibilities. 1024 / 8 is 128; so this calculation will always provide a valid MIDI note.
- Length of note is determined by looking at the length of time in between web requests. This means in busy periods the software produces lots and lots of notes, whereas at quiet times (in the middle of the night) very few notes are played.
In time I’d like to further develop the system, exploring using other things as parameters with which to modulate aspects of the synthesis. One idea is to look at the geographical location of the client and then alter the sound accordingly in some way. This could work very well with a multiple speaker set up. Also plugging the system into the live log data would be really exciting.
A further development would introduce a visual element to the software. Illuminating variou screen sections according to IP address processing, like the audio. I haven’t looked into that as yet though..! It would probably mean transferring the MIDI processing code from VB into Processing; no bad thing me thinks.
Data Sonification
I’m going to pitch some HDR photographs to Chartered Accountants Baker Tilly. The concept is to show Manchester financial architecture, new and old, in stunning HDR.
I visited the site of Baker Tilly’s offices last week to get a feel for the place, it’s around Hardman Square in Manchester. I only managed to take 2 shots before being moved along by a security guard. It was still useful to get some test shots and have a look at the site. These aren’t actually HDR, but are “pseudo-HDR” generated from single RAW files.
Baker Tilly Comp
- c’mon google, sort out Gmail. Twitter is excellent for finding out about things like this…. I actualyl just logged onto gmail, but v slow #
- i’ve made joesart.org minimal. like it like that. also vimeo is ruling my roost at the mo, youtube seems smelly in comparison #
- @robdunne what ru on with these days? augmented reality thing sounds intriguing; and what you doing with folly?-if u dont mind me asking! :) #
