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PLACE KAPITÄN BIOPUNK: FERMENTATION MADNESS JULIAN ABRAHAM INDONESIA Tweet Since raising the excise duty on alcohol significantly in 2010, Indonesia has experienced an increase in homebrewed and black-market alcoholic drinks. However, people drinking this unregulated alcohol often become ill and there have been numerous reported fatalities. This project developed in response to the situation in Indonesia. _Through a series of workshops and an installation, Kapitän Biopunk: Fermentation Madness aims to educate people on how to make safe and cheap fermented alcohol beverages, while democratizing the laboratory and liberating knowledge for a wider society. _The sound installation draws attention to the complexity of the distillation process, permitting the audience to listen to the sound of fermentation, as yeast transforms sugar into ethanol and CO2. The sounds generated depend on a multitude of variables within the production process, including temperature, sugar levels, the types of fruit being used, the quantity of yeast, light intensity and the size of the containers used.

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Fish no longer need to go under the knife to help researchers understand exactly how they swim through hydroelectric dams, thanks to a new injectable tracking device described today in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Activity tracking for body and mind. Spire tracks your breathing patterns and activity for real time insights into your state of mind.

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A computer collects people from surveillance footage and sorts them by skin and clothing colour

BAROGRAPHIC Barographic is a site-specific composition project, creating graphic scores from atmospheric pressure data, and using the architectural form of the venue as an animated, 3D sequencer. The process reflects on different approaches to interpreting the built environment (and the manner in which architects invoke a sense of rhythm and flow through their designs), and captures something that represents our perception of ‘atmosphere’ – something less tangible, but central to our experience of public spaces. For the first phase of the project, a clockwork barograph was installed at The Sage Gateshead. Over the course of four weeks (6 March – 2 April), a series of graphs were produced, charting changes in atmospheric pressure during the seasonal transition from Winter to Spring. This mechanised process created the graphic scores which formed the central elements of the composition. Alongside these scores, the venue’s architectural structure acted as a 3D animated sequencer, creating melodies and rhythms that correspond to patterns that are inherent within the design of the building. The finished piece was performed live at The Sage Gateshead on Wednesday 26 June, as part of Festival of the North East (in a double bill with Frozen By Sight by Paul Smith and Peter Brewis).

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The Department of Rhythmanalysis was a series of projects that explored the potentials of industrial interfaces as representational media. Indicator lights display either an event or the potential for an event. Viewed as an accumulation of events or potential events at varying scales and durations, a collection of such lights might form a picture of a place, and often do, even in industrial use. Theorist Henri Lefebvre described such a way of examining place as periodicity as well – he referred to such a method as the practice of rhythmanalysis. Poets, musicians, architects, film editors and computer programmers are well-versed in such ways of seeing, but the imaging arts pay less attention to simultaneity.

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Streams of wireless data surge from internet exchanges and cellphone relays, flowing from routers to our devices and back again. This saturation of data has become a ubiquitous part of modern life, yet it is completely invisible to us. What would it mean to develop an additional sense which makes us continuously attuned to the invisible data topographies that pervade the city streets? Phantom Terrains is an experimental platform which aims to answer this question by translating the characteristics of wireless networks into sound. By streaming this signal to a pair of hearing aids, the listener is able to hear the changing landscapes of data that surround them. Network identifiers, data rates and encryption modes are translated into sonic parameters, with familiar networks becoming recognizable by their auditory representations.

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FuckingWebBrowser is a simple open-source WebKit based browser (for which there are thousands of tutorials on how to make in less than 2 minutes on a mac.) I added…

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the rhythms of electromagnetic emissions, their psychogeophysics and micrological auscultation

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List of sonification projects

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Network sonification

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To my surprise, I found the news to be even bleaker today than on previous days and so took the opportunity to render it out as noise, hearing it instead. The technique is very simple: capture traffic on a network interface with the popular packet capture tool tcpdump and throw it straight to the sound card, which on Linux systems is represented by a file. It’s a simple and brutalist technique well known to GNU/Linux networky people, one I often show students in workshops. In mid 2014 I taught a Critical Computing workshop at Weissensee Art Academy, Berlin, whereby students Florian Frenzel and Lizzy Onck developed upon this approach for their class project, tcpdump > /dev/dsp - a small black box that passively sniffs and sonifies WiFi traffic. You merely need to turn it on.

OSX: brew install sox sudo tcpdump -AI -i en0 | play -b 8 -e unsigned -t raw -r 48k - -I for monitor mode which lets me hear things from other people around me, too. i added the -A because i think otherwise you're only listening to the metadata, not the data itself. if you're in an area with lots of encrypted networks, it will sound noisier. a lot of the patterns you'll hear have to do more with how your network device is deciding what order to dump packets. with occasional bursts of "more interesting" sounds from unencrypted data. the other thing that's fun about this is if you only run it on yourself (remove -I and maybe lower sample rate to 8k), keep it in the background continuously, you can start to get a feeling for what kind of data your computer is sending across the network. overall this might work better on linux because tcpdump returns packets with less time quantization than on OSX.

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Seahawks-Broncos ends in the most horrific way imaginable in this season's finale of Breaking Madden.

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