#visualising sound

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Nightingale and Canary

Australian artist Andy Thomas specializes in creating ‘audio life forms’: beautiful abstract shapes that react to sounds. In this animated short, he…

Visualising the sound of nature - Listen and watch above

Australian artist Andy Thomas specializes in creating ‘audio life forms’: beautiful abstract shapes that react to sounds.

Nightingale and Canary

from Andy Thomas

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Steina - Violin Power, 1978

"In the first closed-circuit audio/video performances of Violin Power (1970 to 1978) the primary effect observed was the actual movements of

Gordon Pask’s MusiColour Machine

The following description for Pask and McKinnon-Wood’s MusiColour Machine is excerpted from Usman Haque’s “the Architectural Relevance of Go

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Visualising Sound // University of Sussex Symphony Orchestra

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Screen recordings of various codes made in openFrameworks put together with the Blu & Exile track "A letter" from the album Give Me My Flowers While I Can Smell Them, released in 2012. So good it was my alarm sound for a year.

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~My first time live coding with shaders in openFrameworks.. this is a screen recording of what I produced. Looking to push this technique further- making a 1min track in Reason with visuals as additions & for mine and Ayo's generative OpenFrameworks final- to be projected onto the alter of The Great Gathering. Props to Jason Levine and the organizers for a great workshop today, I learnt a lot~

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Project 1: Major Studio 2

The Kalakoúoscope of Your Future: 

Name origination, from the greek Kaleidoscope: Kalos (beauty), eidos (to see), skopeo (to examine).

“observation of beautiful forms”

Kalakoúoscope: Kalos, akoúo (to hear), skopeo.

“observation of beautiful sounds”

Problem/  Why? 

Decisions we make now affect our future selves. If I decided today to drop out of graduate school, my life would fork in a different direction to that of the direction of continuing on my studies. The Kalakoúoscope of Your Future provides a reference point for imagining the different circumstances you might be involved in the future and conceives this picture with sound. 

Why the Kaleidoscope?

The kaleidoscope takes light and color and merges it into a new form within itself, using mirrors and specs of confetti-like colored objects. The new form is altered by the turning of the cone via human interaction. A repetitive pattern is formed and each one looks like it is merging into the next as it falls into an different overall pattern and color each time it is turned. It creates the illusion of expansion and contraction of an organic shape. The kaleidoscope is a simple, clever and interesting object which I was drawn to. Created for viewing in one end, and light entering the other, it produces “beautiful forms” and creates another realm in such a small place only one eye can see. 

Challenges

Paralleling a kaleidoscope for the ear, how can I do this? Furthermore, how can I do this keeping in mind the decision making procedure I wish to highlight? 

Initial Changes to the Project

I originally wanted this piece to be a type of self portrait. Users could interact with the installation and control the sounds, thereby altering my destiny through sound. Although in the real world, I feel like I am somewhat in control of my future,  this is seen to be an illusion; there is limited free will involved. There is a higher power which makes decisions for me. However, I was advised to move away from self portraiture, since it would be more interesting for users to hear the sound of their future rather than mine. Making the interactions of others more self-reflective. I agree.

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Visualising Sound - Audio Responsive Generative Visuals | Made with Processing

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These are pages 28-29 from the Visualising Sound booklet.