Turbulence Spotlight:

Algorithmic Montage 2: A Walk with David Bohm

Turbulence Spotlight: Algorithmic Montage 2: A Walk with David Bohm by David Crawford :: Needs Flash player.

“David Joseph Bohm (born December 20, 1917 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, died October 27, 1992 in London) was an American-born quantum physicist, who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project.” (Wikipedia) The audio in this video comes from an interview that F. David Peat conducted with David Bohm.

David Crawford studied film, video, and new media at the Massachusetts College of Art and received a BFA in 1997. In 2004, he received an MSc from Chalmers University of Technology. Crawford is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Göteborg University, Sweden.

Originally from networked_performance by jo
reBlogged by michael on Feb 16, 2007, 3:40PM

Ballonnenveld

Sounding Balloons

Ballonnenveld, an installation by Martijn Tellinga, displays a sounding and vibrating body of helium-filled balloons. The balloons function as resonance-chambers for a trimmed spectrum of sine-waves that are fed through strings, connecting the balloons with double-coned carspeaker-elements. Each balloon holds its own resonance-frequency that changes over time as a result of varying temperature in the space, amount of helium in the balloon (decreasing over time) and length of the string. Hitting the resonance-frequency the balloons start to get bumpy, as well as the connecting strings, clearly showing the waveshape of the soundsignal going through. This of course causes an acoustical process, perceiveable in the space. Carefully balancing the level between direct sound from the carspeaker-elements and the acoustical-qualities produced by the balloons, creates a musical mechanism that bridges between instrumental and electronic sonoroties and, gently directing the balloons, between acousmatic music and instrumental playing.

The balloons are also a switch in a feedback-loop and, because of their movement, affect the amount of pick-up from the microphones placed above. Each feedback-circle knows a number of breakouts to balloons solely functioning as resonance-chambers. Through pitchshifting, these balloons show slightly different colouring in sound and add to a slowly shifting and modulating body of tones and subtle timbral distortions that arise from the field of balloons. Ballonnenveld explores and visualizes the physicality of electronic sound, though succeeds very well to hold on to its magic and serenity through the particular acoustical behaviour of the installation, hopefully capturing the poetry of the physical process that is behind.

Ballonnenveld was developed in collaboration with Radboud Mens and Danny de Graan and with the support of STEIM and FAPK. [via]

Originally
from networked_performance

by jo


reBlogged

by michael

on Dec 26, 2006, 3:34PM