Dancing in London with color coded headphones.
By Edouard Guihaire at Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/silent-disco-brings-quiet-riot-london-065937374.html
Dancing in London with color coded headphones.
By Edouard Guihaire at Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/silent-disco-brings-quiet-riot-london-065937374.html
Waves that are not sound waves.
light: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=8487
A simple Arduino AM transmitter (Morse code) https://reactivemusic.net/?p=4450 (antenna pin D8) on 1.337 MHz
Raspberry Pi-rate radio. FM stereo transmitter using R-Pi and a piece of wire: http://makezine.com/projects/make-38-cameras-and-av/raspberry-pirate-radio/ Also see: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=10186
Analog TV transmitters, using RF Modulators and Old VCR’s: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=12355
using Max and Pd
rtl-sdr – inexpensive open source software defined radio
Software defined radio in Max http://zerokidz.com/radio (The user guide http://zerokidz.com/radio/docs/maxsdr5.pdf and tutorials provide a basic introduction to working with radio signals in the audio domain.
Transmitting signals in water https://reactivemusic.net/?p=853
The speed of sound is 340 m/s in air (1497 m/s in water)
Speed of light is 300,000,000 m/s
wavelength = velocity / frequency
“I think [radio] is just the biggest conceptual art project uninentional or otherwise that anyone ever made. it puts Christo and those other guys to shame. Its planetary”
Roman Mars “Episode 97 – Numbers Stations” from 99% Invisible
This blog has many stories about experiments waves. Try searching, for example, for: “radio” https://reactivemusic.net/?s=radio
Please send me copies of your earlier compositions. [email protected]
Note: if you played the music in class but lost the recording, Max patch – or if it was a live performance – just let me know, in case I have forgotten. Thanks.
Here is a description of the composition for next week:
Write a composition to induce magical effects.
Here is an example from Aseem Suri http://www.aseemsuri.com/journal/piece-of-mind-second-run-at-the-csound-conference
The project was derived from computer technology, but the overall effect was that people would go into a mysterious room, for a minute, and when they emerged, they would be smiling and happy.
Due on December 15th (last class)
by AGF at Dubspot
“A software program by artist Harold Cohen that creates original artistic images.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARON
Here are examples created by the 2001 Windows Screensaver version, formerly distributed by Kurzweil http://franz.com/success/customer_apps/artificial_intelligence/cohen.lhtml
By the artist: http://web.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/cohen.html
Mouse brain connectivity map.
From The Allen Institute for Brain Science
A Worm’s Mind In A Lego Body
“The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is tiny and only has 302 neurons. These have been completely mapped and the OpenWorm project is working to build a complete simulation of the worm in software.”
Article by Lucy Black at i-programmer
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/7985-a-worms-mind-in-a-lego-body.html
OpenWorm project page: http://www.openworm.org
Amoeba wins.
By Mark Straus at io9.com
http://io9.com/amoebas-are-still-more-intelligent-than-our-most-power-1662557003
By Stephane Boucher at dsprelated.com
http://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/584.php
Constructing a square wave with an infinite series
Over the last 50 years
How was the data mapped to emotions? Why are the blues mostly happy?
By Sebastian Raschka (2014)
http://sebastianraschka.com/PDFs/posters/music_exploratory_1.pdf
https://github.com/rasbt?tab=repositories
Data from the Million Song Dataset http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/
Facial recognition software for detecting emotions
Emotient API: http://www.emotient.com/products#FACETSDK