Professor: Douglas Repetto, douglas@music.columbia.edu
TA: Johnathan Lee, jlee@music.columbia.edu
Our Motto: "Why, then how."
Today we'll talk about a number of pieces that use a variety of strategies to explicitly map data from one domain to another.
data
diaries Cory Arcangel
Perfect Lives Robert Ashley
Stria John Chowning
Earth's Magnetic Field Charles Dodge
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco Jonathan Harvey
Fielder iTunes Visual Plug-In
Matt Ingalls and Lloyd Anderson
Musique de Cheminees Jan Kopp
Late August Paul Lansky
Smalltalk Paul Lansky
Semblance of Ritual II Johnathan F. Lee
Action - Situation - Signification Magnus Lindberg
Primordial/Lift Pauline Oliveros
SineFamilyTree Douglas Repetto
disc-o
Douglas Repetto and Jason Freeman
The vOICe
Sonification Applet
Your assignment:
We're going to do a repeat (more or less) of last week's assignment, but this time I'm going to be more explicit about what I want. Find a set of data that interests you. Temperature readings, population charts, SAT scores, baseball statistics, your pulse over twenty four hours, etc. It can be anything you want, but it should be in the spirit of these examples. I want something concrete. Next: what interests you about your data set? What sorts of patterns might be in there? What sort of information might you tease out? How might that information be aesthetically or conceptually interesting? Does your blood pressure over time make for a compelling formal structure? Is there something melodically interesting about delay times at LaGuardia Airport? Is it worth listening to the rhythms embedded in the flow of traffic on Broadway? Do something with this.