thanks, was about to respond- good to know that is what happens.
On Mar 23, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Must be using a text-based email client.
http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Brilliant_Noise/BNoise.htm
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:56 PM, <lrudo...@meganet.net> wrote:
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
--
Doug Roberts
drobe...@rti.org
d...@parrot-farm.net
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell
============================================================
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
============================================================
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
