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john roach

Art review: 'After 1968' at California African American Museum | Culture Monster | Los ... - 0 views

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    "Nadine Robinson's "Coronation Theme: Organon" is a great, rumbling wall of potential power, a majestic ode to past blood, sweat and tears and a firm promise of future might. "
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The Studio Museum in Harlem - 0 views

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    " Blurring the boundaries of perception, Nadine Robinson's installation alles grau presents an original soundtrack for modern civilization and an apocalyptic landscape of time. Translated from German, the title, alles grau in grau malen, means "to paint everything grey or pessimistically." The larger-than-life grey panels, speakers, smoke, light and throbbing acoustics are suggestive of Biblical depictions of the end of time. Robinson refers to these doomsday narratives as part of "the specter of Revelation," which "looms in the popular imagination today.""
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Collection of Dances in Choreography Notation (1700) - The Public Domain Review - 0 views

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    "Images extracted from the latter half of Choregraphie, a book first published in 1700 which details a dance notation system invented in the 1680s at the court of Louis XIV."
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Sound Escapes by Angus Carlyle - issuu - 0 views

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    Published on Jul 1, 2009. A catalogue for the Sound Escapes exhibition curated by Angus Carlyle and Irene Revell held at Space Gallery, London, 2009."
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Thessia Machado's Handmade Instruments Turn Ambience into Music - SURFACE - 0 views

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    "Given light, space, electricity, and a stack of discarded electronics, Thessia Machado will make music. For more than a decade, the sound artist has been building her own instruments with found and modified parts-old speakers, circuit boards, fax machines-intent on broadening the dimensions of sound and sound-making. Unlike traditional instruments, Machado's creations and installations generate sounds triggered by atmospheric factors such as light, movement, and electromagnetic waves. They harness and marshal the ambience, audibly expressing their environments. "These sounds that [were] not there, are now there," she says. And sound, she adds, is "basically air that's organized.""
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This Is Not A Train: An exploration of meaning, emotion and the roles of sound in film ... - 0 views

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    "In what we do, sounds don't just happen to exist with an 'in-built' and 'necessary' essence; they don't just have an "in-itself" by default. And even if, from time to time, there could still be a trace of the source that could have produced such sound, it is but one of the many possibilities of what a sound event or a sound object [2] may potentially be or become to us: A sound is, in our hands and in our films, the thing, not in-itself but as it makes itself manifest to the listener"
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CLOT Magazine | CHRIS WATSON, making audible the inaudible - 0 views

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    "I came across the work of Chris Watson when first introduced to his glacier recordings (1). I was immediately fascinated. These peculiar sounds had obsessed me since watching an episode of the 90s TV series "A Northern Exposure". Every spring, a whole Alaskan town almost goes insane because of having to hear the sounds of melting snows and glaciers for several weeks. Such a powerful and strange phenomenon. Few years later, a random event brought me to similar thoughts: the compacted ice after a day of heavy snow, melting on the terrace above the small flat in Newington Green I was living in at that time. We heard the squeaky, screechy and creaking sounds for days. Day after day we kept wondering whether those noises we had never heard before were actually coming from the ice."
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Crumpling Sound Synthesis (SIGGRAPH Asia 2016) - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Crumpling a thin sheet produces a characteristic sound, comprised of distinct clicking sounds corresponding to buckling events. We propose a physically based algorithm that automatically synthesizes crumpling sounds for a given thin shell animation. The resulting sound is a superposition of individually synthesized clicking sounds corresponding to visually significant and insignificant buckling events. We identify visually signifi- cant buckling events on the dynamically evolving thin surface mesh, and instantiate visually insignificant buckling events via a stochastic model that seeks to mimic the power-law distribution of buckling energies observed in many materials. In either case, the synthesis of a buckling sound employs linear modal analysis of the deformed thin shell. Because different buckling events in general occur at different deformed configurations, the question arises whether the calculation of linear modes can be reused. We amortize the cost of the linear modal analysis by dynamically partitioning the mesh into nearly rigid pieces: the modal analysis of a rigidly moving piece is retained over time, and the modal analysis of the assembly is obtained via Component Mode Synthesis (CMS). We illustrate our approach through a series of examples and a perceptual user study, demonstrating the utility of the sound synthesis method in producing realistic sounds at practical computation times."
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Richard Garet, ELECTROCHROMA, 2010 - YouTube - 0 views

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    "ELECTROCHROMA is a 58ʼ30" audiovisual work that emerged from the manipulation of light to generate imagery as well as using a combination of extended techniques applied to sonic-material sources, including translation of image to sound to create the 5.1 surround audio composition. The work utilizes various analog and digital procedures and a variety of software processes to manipulate the moving image and sound. The workʼs imagery ranges from dark to light monochromatic spheres, shifting dynamics and intensity, including flickering and pulsating patterns, retinal impact, and sensory overloads. The sound composition focuses on timbre, low ends, modulated frequencies, textures, static noises, and electronic sounds moving through space. Other sonic layers were created through the use of electromagnetism, custom electronic sounds, and voices scored for the work and performed in a recording studio by artist Marylea Martha Quintana."
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sound mind studio » Contact microphones (& attachement methods) shootout - 0 views

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    "Contact microphones (& attachement methods) shootout "
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Bose Global Press Room - Bose Announces Frames - A Revolutionary New Wearable - 0 views

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    "Bose Frames are Bose AR compatible - the first commercial product embedded with the Bose audio augmented reality platform. Unlike other augmented reality glasses and platforms, Bose AR doesn't change what you see, or use a lens or phone camera to superimpose objects in your sightline. Instead, it knows where you are and what you're facing using a 9-axis head motion sensor and the GPS from your iOS or Android device - and automatically adds a layer of audio, connecting that place and time to endless possibilities for travel, learning, entertainment, gaming, and more. It's all accessible through the ease of listening - clear-eyed, heads-up, hands-free. And with Bose AR experiences in development, it's coming soon to Bose Frames."
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We Can See Someone Looking, But Can We Hear Someone Listening? | Lawrence English | TED... - 0 views

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    "Composer and artist, Lawrence English is interested in audition, which is the act of perceiving with our ears to extract information from the world around us. Unlike our eyes, our ears have no lids but does this mean we're always listening and what is this thing called listening anyway - is it merely hearing or is it something more decisive? Most of all he ponders, can we listen to a listener's listening?"
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Wayback Sound Machine, A sonic constellation compilation Part 1 - Sonic Field - 0 views

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    "This Sonic Constellation Compilation is part of the ongoing series: WAYBACK SOUND MACHINE, A CONSTELLATION OF SOUNDING TIME, which asks What can we gather from sounding the past-and with that in mind, what is the relationship between soundscape and sound design? This is Part One of a three part series-within-the-series, that shares various artistic forms, and some text, of/on sound from the past, and designing and composing sound for the past."
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collective signal : Miss Milivolt - 0 views

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    "In 2020 the national warning system (air raid siren) is scheduled to be decommissioned. Before this happens, I am hoping to create a special composition as a swan song for the system which fits the technical specs and acoustic qualities of the hardware. This piece is to be performed/deployed simultaneously through all 4300 sirens of the Netherlands at a set time in the future - its sound enveloping everybody. Potentially, this will also be the largest sound installation of the country; in any case it is the biggest instrument available. "
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Listening for Instruction - Lisa Hall - 1 views

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    "Listening for Instruction surveys how sounds are used as signifiers in public spaces. ​  Collecting beeps, hisses, tones and automated voices, this work looks at how human workers are replaced by recorded sound, how sound is used to direct our behaviour, and how the voice is positioned within that. Probing current debates around the potential changes automation brings to working lives this study advocates for an automated future, supporting the anti-work movement's call for 'the right to the idle' - the artists commit their own voices into a hybrid synthetic persona in support of this."
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Art installation recreates how our environment might sound to people with Alzheimers Di... - 0 views

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    "Arup and BLOXAS Architects collaborated on a soundscape installation to demonstrate what our everyday environment might sound like to a dementia sufferer."
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