GMU:Einführung ins Programmieren mit Processing/part II

task 13/11: Pattern Observations II

Choose an example of either a moving pattern (animation, video) or a audio pattern and try to describe it in a text. What kind of file you choose is up to you. Might be your favourite piece of music, a videosequence you love or many others. Don’t spend too much time on your choice. The best are always the most unconcious ones.

Think about how does the piece relate to time? Look for patterns, for repetitions or samples in audio/video. How do they look like, How often things are repeated? Sometimes sketches might be helpful as well.

for inspiration: three examples to check

Video: Fischli and Weiss >> Lauf der Dinge
The two swiss artist with their film, sort of documentary on a chain reactions It’s full of short samples of various motionsets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tv-JbAurcg

Animation / Motion graphics Björk >> biophilia
The new album of the icelandic artist Björk comes with a collection of digital apps (developed for iphone). For each song one app is developed, apps, where you can playfully interact with the music. The apps are mostly graphical animations, quite complex ones. e.g. the virus app, watch as screenrecording here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RoJK5_PWgE&feature=related, (introduction to the album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8AELvVUFLw )

Audio Steve Reich >> Piano Phase
In his composition Reich uses the technique of phase shifting, where two identical lines of music start to play simultanously, one of the lines slowly speeds up and gets out of phase Piano Phase: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4_8KjmzZk about the piece: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Phase about the composer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich

Amon Tobin - Calculate

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description will be added later

-- Florian Meyer

crossroads with traffic lights

Crossroads with traffic lights show interesting motion patterns. While cars are approaching the crossroads all the time, it is determined by the state of the traffic lights whether they are allowed to pass through or not.

–– (md)

Telepresent Water

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This remote, mechanical simulation of a wave is a plane composed of connected lines that mesh together into a larger quadrant. Although the movement changes in real time, we can see that, in general, the movement begins in one of the corners and follows a trigonometric pattern – much like a sine wave. The quadrant continues to follow this wave, although the frequency of the wave changes.

--Dianna Mertz

CrimeWave

Crimewave is the music made by Cystal Castles. There are many fancy cluster of music loops in this song. In addition, the more song is progressing, the more music assets are added to each loop overlaply. Furthermore, they apply a synthesized filter to vocal. Deep bass rhythm runs in the background.

Sound samples:

Crimewave-Cystal Castles <flashmp3 id="Frosty the snowman">crimewave.mp3</flashmp3>

--Patawat P.

Ms JohnSoda

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Description of Music: The music consists of several layers that are layered one after another, so that the music increases.

• soft, high, fading single tones ->from beginning till 4th seconds +
• -louder, deeper, fading single tones -> from 4th second till 16th seconds +
• lasting note with higher sequence -> from 16th second +
• another lasting note with deeper sequence -> from 19th second
• --> changing with higher sequence note by turn every 3rd second -> till 59th second+
• deep lasting note - instead of changing tones -> from 59th second till 121st second+
• very deep lasting note -> lasting for 3 seconds with a delay of another 3 seconds, as a loop
• two high notes: first = clear and second = bit higher + fading; changing by turn-> from 121st second+
• unregularly short cut and deep tones -> from 121st second
• singing voice of a woman, fading -> from 143rd second +
• singing voice of a woman, clear and louder -> from 204th second+
• kind of irregular beat -> from 204th second

--Julia Putscher

Craig Taborn - Patterns in Audio

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Craig possesses that trait so valued by listeners and leaders alike (and sometimes not, by the less self-assured of them) throughout the history of the music; that is, they find themselves pointing their ears towards him throughout recordings and performances to find out what remarkable phrase, color, texture or idea he's going to come up with- invent even- next.

Craig's knack for multi-level, textural thinking, both in composition and execution, reveals itself to the listener in acoustic, electric and electronic settings and should continue to place him at the very center of modern jazz reinvention for many years to come.

Quelle

–– Johannes Konrad Altmann

Ayu:M

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The song M from Ayu consists of many patterns. The first one are 3 times 7 "rectangles", to show the current points, which the spaceship gets. The are rectangles for a street and above it the spaceship flies. The spaceship catches rectangular objects, which are positioned randomly and with a specific color. Over 50 times, stars with a random number of corners are visible on the top left, top middle or top center. The color changes randomly. Another repeating shape is the ring, which is around the street and comes after a specific distance.

–– Andreas Dietrich