Computer Music II: Sound Art

24 February 2009

data visualization/sonification; capturing sound; let's build!

• playback device presentations

• look & listen: data visualization/sonification
  • data vis in general is big beezwax
  • processing, an artist-friendly programming language/environment very popular for data visualization work
  • "physicalization"?
  • Jason Salavon: Late Night Triad
  • R. Luke DuBois: Hindsight Is Always 20/20
  • DNA portraits
  • Cory Arcangel: Data DiariesFinnbogi Petursson
  • Douglas Henderson: Untitled 2006
  • Christian Marclay: Record without a Cover
  • Thessia Machado: waveform sculpture
  • me: Slowscan Soundwave I / II / III + puff bang reverb + sineclock
  • Louisa Bufardeci: 13 captured telephone conversations - all one minute long
  • tmeme + blonk + la barbara: Messa di Voce
  • Josh Nimoy: balldroppings
  • Larry Polansky: Four Voice Canons
  • Steve Reich: Come Out
  • Zach Layton: Network Sonification
  • Amy Alexander & Peter Traub: Netsong
  • Jason Freeman: iTSM
  • Adam Parrish: frotzophone
  • Eric Archer: Fibonacci Generator + Alalog Computer Bouncing Ball
  • innumerable similar pieces out there, both screen/speaker based and physical. any favorites?

• tools and techniques: capturing sound
  • recording for playback
  • clay/paleoacoustics *
  • wax *
  • vinyl * * *
  • magnetic tape * * * * *
  • digital
  • visual recording & analysis
  • oscilloscope
  • chart recorder
  • spectral analysis * *

• hands on: transducers -- let's make some up!

• also: let's talk about your final projects

• assignment
  • build a simple visualization or sonification device
  • proposal for an in-class experiment