Assignment 8
a) Create a visual composition starting with a white square on black background: input VOLUME
a) Create a visual composition starting with a white square on black background: input FREQUENCIES (FFT)
Assignment 7
a) Create a 20 seconds sound composition to be visually mapped by my right: Eduardo
To create this composition I used the SequenceRR application from assignments 3 - e.
I wanted to compose something simple and clear.
b) Create visual map of the composition passed by my left: Alia
Alia's composition:
Visual mapping of Alia's composition ->
Listening to Alia's composition gradually an image formed in my mind, like a car chased by other cars over a bridge in the night. In the composition there are three main elements: the beat which I mapped to the stripes in the upper part of the map, the bass line mapped to the black chased car path and the echoing clacson like sounds, which I mapped to the chasing cars colors(for pitch).
c) Read the visual map passed by my left: Alia and recompose the original sound by Alia's left: Seung
Alia's visual map of Seung's composition->
Seung's sound composition I recreated based on Alia's map:
The image Alia gave me firstly remembered me of a winter dawn, with frozen dew in a purple bright light, then I transposed this into an underwater scenery.
Assignment 6
a+b) Volume as input - Synchronized apertures
Synchronized apertures from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
The music is Nanou2 by Aphex Twin.
inspired by Seung's fifth assignment and in collaboration with her.
visiblevisible.org/teaching/avsys/students/seung/hw5.html
Volume is associated to a simple shape transformation of each element of the pattern.
Mixing the visualization and the song I imagine all the photos are taken around the world in the same time without one noticing the others, in a synchronous movement which captures instants, memories which form a collective emotion.
This reminds me of the "Between Blinks & Buttons" project by Sascha Pohflepp.
blinksandbuttons.net/intro_en.html
blinksandbuttons.net/media_blinks_hires_en.html
c) FFT sounds search
High frequencies sound, from "2 analogue talks" by Aphex Twin.
not only high frequencies but a lot of very high ones clearly present.
Hi frequencies from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Specific frequencies, from "Bonus Hugh Frequency Sounds" by Aphex Twin.
Very specific frequencies from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Energy in all frequencies, from "Ktpa2" by Aphex Twin.
Energy in all frequencies from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Low frequencies, from "Bit" by Aphex Twin.
Low frequencies from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
d) FFT visualizer - Frequency Erosion
Frequency Erosion from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Music: Vordhosbn by Aphex Twin
this song by Aphex Twin has always created in my mind an image of a rock, a memory, being eroded by waves of frequencies leaving just a trace behind.
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Overlap from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
I was looking at vvork.com while listening to "subraum" by wes rock in the cologne commons compilation and suddenly while looking at the magnificent gif animation by mathwrath.com/ I felt the two where overlapping perfectly in any sense!
Assignment 5
a) Visual granular synthesis - Emergence
This is a photo I took a while ago in my house in Italy.
In Claudio Marra's "The unfaithful image" book I found the work of Hiroyuki Masuyama an artist who creates his visual compositions out of hundreds of photographic parts.
To me Granular synthesis is another face of the phenomenon of Emergence.
b+c) Granular synthesis controller + recreate sounds
I plugged my ROBOCONTROLLER from Algo class into the granular code and experimented with it in order to recreate the target sounds.
here are the results:
Boiling teapot from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Bubbling water from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Thick cloud from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Assignment 4
a) Waveshaping
Waveshaping from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
SUPERCOOL
Kenta Horio + Lalya Gaye guests, sorry Lalya video missing.
Kanta Horio @ Parsons - Audiovisualsystems class 2009 from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Assignment 3
a) Harmony
Harmony8akira from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
b) Chaos
Chaos8 from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
c) Maximum number of oscillators
Maximum number of oscillators from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
d) Tone recreation
Ring from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Cappuccino from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
e) Sequencer - Round and Round
Sequencer - Round and round v.1 from Claudio Midolo on Vimeo.
Assignment 2
a) Make a sound story using sounds that you record.
Use headphones, check the volume as it may be loud. Close your eyes.