Mar 5, 2015
Here is an extended conversation regarding a broad range of topics
relative to sonification including the types and definitions of
listening relative to sonification practices as well as a
discussion of the blurry space between sound art practice and
functional scientific purpose with sonification. Notes on pointers
to some of Dr. Grond's work here:
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grond.at/html/projects/moving_equations/moving_equations.htm
This audio visual installation was commissioned for the exhibition
The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot Fractals, Chaos, and the
Materiality of Thinking. This work reflects on the role of drawing
in nonlinear science—connecting performativity, space, and creative
thought processes. It investigates at the same time questions of
the representation of dynamical systems as differential equations.
In this video you canhear the sounds of drawing being made with a
pencil. The varying speeds and pressures that characterize this
kind of sound are manipulated via filters, playback speeds, and
sound effects based on the lines produced by certain nonlinear
equations. Synchronized to these sounds are visual representations
of the equations, which change their shades according to the actual
state of the selected dynamical system. Listening to the intimate
sonic experience and watching the visually changing formula allows
one to connect with the dynamical properties of the
systems.
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grond.at/html/projects/sef_cert/s_c.htm
Safety Certificate is a musical performance based on axle box
sensor data from high-speed trains. The original purpose of this
data is to provide a basis for the assessments of the mechanical
aspects of train safety durimng the homologation process. In this
performance, the data, which represents dynamical processes in the
sub frequent domain and below the audible range, are converted into
sound through audification. The sound that is generated live during
the performance is manipulated through the Manta control interface,
which allows for the convenient layering of 48 different timbres.
Safety Certificate was premiered at Seconde Nature in
Aix-en-Provence in March 2010 during the Sonification symposium –
What Where How Why, organized by Locus Sonus . On the left you will
hear excerpts of a the recording from a performance for 8 channels
in a stereo downmix.
Special thanks to Fabian Schmid from PJM for the data and Till
Bovermann for Manta instructions. I used Alberto DeCampo's
SuperCollider class as software interface to the
Manta.
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Delay together with Mary Sherman:
https://vimeo.com/118346045