Was this supposed to have a link, or an attachment? About ten or twelve years ago, Wally Feurzeig and Oliver Selfridge were trying to get NSF interested in funding a project to study "sonorization" (like "visualization"), for application to (e.g.) computer use by visually impaired people, but presumably also for applications analogous to visualization applications. As far as I know, they never got that funded (this was during the period when GTE, having bought Bolt Beranek and Newman for the sake of its network stuff, had not *quite* finished deciding to throw the research labs out in the trash; I gather that since then the labs have somewhat recovered, and when I saw Wally at Oliver's memorial service last year he said he was still doing stuff, but that project wasn't it).
I am a huge skeptic about the value of most so-called "visualizations", and also about "tone poems" and other classical (or, more likely, Romantic or early Modern) musical "sonorizations", so even if there were a link and I had working speakers attached to this computer, I don't think I'd download it. But it would be nice to know (as could be deduced from the link) who did this (and why I should take them seriously, as either artists or scientists). They sound (heh) like people with too much data and too much computing power on their hands. And a grant, probably. Bah, humbug. > Brilliant Noise > > from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and > man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the > CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame > taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a > plane as it crosses the path of the observatory... > "The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via > digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The > sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the > Sun. > "By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena. > Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw > material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation > of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking > place...." > > > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
