Posts tagged time
Andrew Spitz documents an attempt at time-lapse phonography over at his blog.
I wrote a program in Max/MSP to automize the whole process. Every 144 seconds, the software capture one frame from the webcam and a 100ms slice of sound, with a 5ms fade in and out to attempt ironing out the non-zero crossing clicks. Each new sound slice gets appended into a buffer containing the other sounds, which then gets exported and combined with the video.
(via sound + design)
This interactive data sonification feature from the New York Times is fantastic. It is a perfect case for the usefulness of sonification: hearing the close finishes of the Olympic races really gives you a better sense of just how close they are, even compared to watching them!
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John Kannenberg: Terry Riley’s In C (in four minutes)
on Monsters of Experimental Music, Vol. 1
Monsters of Experimental Music, Vol. 1 is a collection of well-known pieces of experimental music, curated by John Kannenberg, and condensed down into four minutes each. While the average song length quoted in iPod ads is four minutes, most experimental music takes much longer, and Kannenberg squeezes these pieces until they fit the pop mold.
It is an efficiently thought-provoking work, conceptually prodding at notions of curation via reference to popular culture, while not neglecting the actual sonic features of the pieces. (Now That’s What I Call Music! is on release #31 in the US…) The density of Riley’s In C works particularly well with the speeding-up process, but I also recommend his version of my personal favorite, Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room.
You can download the whole thing for free.
A bunch of stuff played really fast.
Are they still the same songs? Is it pitch-corrected (or can you even ask that about data that’s been so beat up)? Do the original copyrights still apply? Can you reverse the tracks and still hear the originals? Does anyone actually care?
Compression Sound Art (via CDM)
Black One Sped Up (via aj)
A sort of perverse chipmunks-style speedup of Sunn O)))’s Black One.
