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== Meandering Sound ==
[[File:Vignette-Explorer-Screenshot.png|400px|thumb|left|Martin Schneider: [http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/34403 Vignette Explorer] (2010)]]
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=== 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:  [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/harmonograph/The_Harmonograph.pdf The Harmonograph] (1893)
* Joseph Goold: [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/harmonograph/Harmonic_Vibrations.pdf Harmonic Vibrations] (1910)
* Tom Greenslade: [http://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=physics_publications All about Lissajous Figures] (1993)
* Frank A. Farris: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2691465.pdf Wheels on Wheels on Wheels — Surprising Symmetry] (1996)
* Aatish Bhatia: [http://nautil.us/blog/the-math-trick-behind-mp3s-jpegs-and-homer-simpsons-face The Math Trick behind MP3s, JPEGs and Homer Simpson's Face] (2013)
* Michael Trott: [http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/05/17/making-formulas-for-everything-from-pi-to-the-pink-panther-to-sir-isaac-newton/ Making Formulas for Everyhing] — from Pi to the Pink Panther to Sir Isaac Newton (2013)
* Michael Trott: [http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/06/10/using-formulas-for-everything-from-a-complex-analysis-class-to-political-cartoons-to-music-album-covers/ Using Formulas for Everything] — from a Complex Analysis Class to Political Cartoons to Music Album Covers (2013)
=== Code ===
* Santiago Ginnobili: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVuU2YCwHjw Ptolemy and Homer Simpson] (2008)
* Martin Schneider: [http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/34403 Vignette Explorer] (2011)
* Joe Freedman: [http://wheelof.com/sketch/ Cycloid Drawing Machine] + [https://github.com/jbum/CDMS Code] (2015)
=== Art ===
* Steffen Fiedler: [http://www.nand.io/projects/research/unreliable-machinery/ Unreliable Machinery] (2011)
* Jeroboam Fenderson: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqSvkNjWnnQ Nuclear Black Noise] (2013)
=== Links ===
* [http://physics.case.edu/about/history/antique-physics-instruments/harmonic-synthesizer-2/ Harmonic Synthsizer] and [http://physics.case.edu/about/history/antique-physics-instruments/harmonic-analyzer-2/ Harmonic Analyser]
* Michael McCarthy: [http://mechanicaldesign101.com/2015/12/24/fourier-curve-tracing/ Fourier-Curve Tracing the Batman-Curve] (2015)
* John Baez and Anita Chodry: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AExisumxtzQ The Harmonograph] (2016)
* Jeroboam Fenderson: [http://oscilloscopemusic.com/ Oscilloscope Music] (2016)
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== Meandering Video ==
{{#ev:youtube|De4DWMyQBfU|400|left|Woody Wasulka & Brian O'Reilly: Scan Processor Studies|frame}}
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=== 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: [http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA-IV.1.html Geschichte der Computerkunst: Videokulturen] (2015)
* Jen Christiansen: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/pop-culture-pulsar-origin-story-of-joy-division-s-unknown-pleasures-album-cover-video/ Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover] (2015)
=== Art ===
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZQiHuTbnes Rutt-Etra Video Synthesizer] (1974)
* Steina and Woody Vasulka: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wBu_q3cRrI Objects] (1978)
* Steina and Woody Vasulka: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHy3DCpZM6o  Transformations] (1978)
=== Code ===
* Felix Turner: [http://www.creativeapplications.net/scripts/rutt-etra-izer-scripts-webapp/ Rutt-Etra-Izer] (2011)
* Mikko Harju: [https://gist.github.com/mharju/3805082 Unknown Pleasures visualization test with Processing] (2011)
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== The Meandering Mind ==
[[File:Motiongram_Explorer.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Martin Schneider: [https://github.com/bitcraftlab/motion-maps/ MotionGram Explorer]]]
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=== 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)

Latest revision as of 21:53, 16 September 2016

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

Code

Art

Links

Meandering Video

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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

Art

Code

The Meandering Mind

Martin Schneider: MotionGram Explorer


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:

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