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Meandering Media

Meandering Sound

Martin Schneider: Vignette Explorer (2010)

About

In this lecture we will look at sound signals as meandering curves in time.

Mathematical Functions — in the 1st part, we will learn how to create curves using mathematical functions.
Curves of Sound — in the 2nd part, we will learn how to make audible curves in time and space.

Goals

Basics of mathematical functions
Polar coordinates
Harmonic synthesizer
Sound synthesis in Processing

Literature

Irvine Whitty: The Harmonograph (1893)
Joseph Goold: Harmonic Vibrations (1910)
Tom Greenslade: All about Lissajous Figures (1993)
Frank A. Farris: Wheels on Wheels on Wheels — Surprising Symmetry (1996)
Aatish Bhatia: The Math Trick behind MP3s, JPEGs and Homer Simpson's Face (2013)
Michael Trott: Making Formulas for Everyhing — from Pi to the Pink Panther to Sir Isaac Newton (2013)
Michael Trott: Using Formulas for Everything — from a Complex Analysis Class to Political Cartoons to Music Album Covers (2013)

Code

Santiago Ginnobili: Ptolemy and Homer Simpson (2008)
Martin Schneider: Vignette Explorer (2011)
Joe Freedman: Cycloid Drawing Machine + Code (2015)

Art

Steffen Fiedler: Unreliable Machinery (2011)
Jeroboam Fenderson: Nuclear Black Noise (2013)

Links

Harmonic Synthsizer and Harmonic Analyser
Michael McCarthy: Fourier-Curve Tracing the Batman-Curve (2015)
John Baez and Anita Chodry: The Harmonograph (2016)
Jeroboam Fenderson: Oscilloscope Music (2016)

Meandering Video

Woody Wasulka & Brian O'Reilly: Scan Processor Studies

About

In this lecture will consider look at video signals as meandering curves through space and time.

Goals

video recording technology
introduction to video art
scan line algorithms
functional video transformations
processing videos with Processing

Literature

Thomas Dreher: Geschichte der Computerkunst: Videokulturen (2015)
Jen Christiansen: Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover (2015)

Art

Rutt-Etra Video Synthesizer (1974)
Steina and Woody Vasulka: Objects (1978)
Steina and Woody Vasulka: Transformations (1978)

Code

Felix Turner: Rutt-Etra-Izer (2011)
Mikko Harju: Unknown Pleasures visualization test with Processing (2011)

The Meandering Mind

About

In this lecture we will have look at electric, mechanic, and biological systems and how their trajectories can be analyzed using data visualisation and sonification

Goals

motiongrams and motionmaps
working with EEG, EKG, EMG data
quantified self

Literature

Here's some literature that may be relevant for students taking the project module of Ursula Damm:

Edwin R. Lewis: Using electronic circuits to model simple neuroelectric interactions (1968)
Stafford Beer: Designing Freedom (1973)
Peter Cariani: To evolve an ear: epistemological implications of Gordon Pask's electrochemical devices (1993)

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 * Mikko Harju: [https://gist.github.com/mharju/3805082 Unknown Pleasures visualization test with Processing] (2011)
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 == The Meandering Mind ==
-{{Note|coming soon}}
+=== About ===
+In this lecture we will have look at electric, mechanic, and biological systems and how their trajectories can be analyzed
+using data visualisation and sonification
+=== Goals ===
+* motiongrams and motionmaps
+* working with EEG, EKG, EMG data
+* quantified self
+=== Literature ===
+{{note|Here's some literature that may be relevant for students taking the project module of Ursula Damm:}}
+* Edwin R. Lewis: [https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lewis/ProcIEEE68.pdf Using electronic circuits to model simple neuroelectric interactions] (1968)
+* Stafford Beer: [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e3/Beer_Stafford_Designing_Freedom.pdf Designing Freedom] (1973)
+* Peter Cariani: [http://www.cariani.com/CarianiNewWebsite/Publications_files/PaskDevice93-SelfOrganizingSystems.pdf To evolve an ear: epistemological implications of Gordon Pask's electrochemical devices] (1993)