Presentations from the honours students!
I really loved the animation projects of the first speaker. The animations were really pretty and I think the music fitted them perfectly. I loved the piano style and the vocals and I think I could listen to it on CD for enjoyment. A very comfortable contrast to what we normally hear in forum... but there is a place for that too.
The concept of the program that sonifies network data was totally awesome. I really like the way that it artistically represents the modern world where we're surrounded by machines that are automatically sending each other huge amounts of information before we even ask them to fetch us anything. It's a noisy society where we're bombarded with information from all angles, so why not convert it into music?
I guess what the program currently lacks on the musical front is a way to give the results some kind of macro form...
I was also wondering if the program can pull much meaning from the data values? For example, is it very different to modulating the values of the synth with a random oscillator? But I think these problems can be solved (don't ask me how).
Reference: Stephen Whittington. "Week 10 Music Technology Forum - Honours Student Presentations." Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 16 October 2008.
No comments:
Post a Comment