Must be using a text-based email client. http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Brilliant_Noise/BNoise.htm
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Was this supposed to have a link, or an attachment? > > About ten or twelve years ago, Wally Feurzeig and > Oliver Selfridge were trying to get NSF interested > in funding a project to study "sonorization" (like > "visualization"), for application to (e.g.) computer > use by visually impaired people, but presumably > also for applications analogous to visualization > applications. As far as I know, they never got that > funded (this was during the period when GTE, having > bought Bolt Beranek and Newman for the sake of its > network stuff, had not *quite* finished deciding to > throw the research labs out in the trash; I gather > that since then the labs have somewhat recovered, and > when I saw Wally at Oliver's memorial service last > year he said he was still doing stuff, but that > project wasn't it). > > I am a huge skeptic about the value of most > so-called "visualizations", and also about > "tone poems" and other classical (or, more > likely, Romantic or early Modern) musical > "sonorizations", so even if there were a link > and I had working speakers attached to this > computer, I don't think I'd download it. But > it would be nice to know (as could be deduced > from the link) who did this (and why I should > take them seriously, as either artists or > scientists). They sound (heh) like people > with too much data and too much computing power > on their hands. And a grant, probably. > > Bah, humbug. > > > > Brilliant Noise > > > > from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and > > man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the > > CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame > > taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a > > plane as it crosses the path of the observatory... > > "The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via > > digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The > > sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the > > Sun. > > "By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena. > > Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw > > material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation > > of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking > > place...." > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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