Friday, January 11, 2019

Noah Safian Week 1 - 2 Videos


This first video is the closest representation I could find to a performance I led last semester in PAT 472. Each member of a 5 person "laptop orchestra" utilizing Chuck MiniAudicle coding software was given a piece of code for different sonic elements of a storm. This included the sound of high and low pitched winds, rain, and various thunder samples. A 2 minute storm time lapse video I created was used to conduct the orchestra, as they sonically imitated the storm they were watching in front of them.

















Building off of this performance, I would like to look into having sound affect some sort of visual element in real time (instead of having the visual influence the sound, like in my Storm Sonification). I plan on looking into different hardware and software that allow significant manipulation and can achieve this kind of effect.



7 comments:

  1. Check out Look Mum No Computer's video "Turn an old TV into an Oscillograph For Oscillographics!" on YouTube. Maybe not the direction you want to go for this project, but your second video reminded me of this, and it's pretty cool.

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  2. I love the first video. I would really want to participate in a soundscape like that. I love the connection between video and sound in your video. I think it develops really nicely, adds color, changes shape. Really nice.

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  3. I'm really intrigued by the second video, I think that kind of visualization can be super effective. The first video almost reminds me of an Oliveros meditation; creating a really unique atmosphere with only a few, simple instructions.

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  4. This is so cool, it makes me want to watch stranger things. I love the first video as well, I was reminded of elementary school choir class where we did something similar. It sounds so much better done by adults, in a concert hall, and with mics!! I love finding ways to incorporate the normal sounds we can make with our bodies into music. I'm interested to see how you will do that with visual software like in the second video.

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  5. The first video was really really cool. It actually sounded like a storm and thinking of that idea in the first place is very unique. The second video I relate with in a weird sort of way because I always find myself sitting in front of serum playing with an arp like that for hours. Really cool video.

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  6. The first video was great - I actually do this with my choir (smaller choir, so the effect isn't quite as good...) and it is amazing to participate in. And I love incorporating visual elements into musical performance, so I'm interested to see what you can create!

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  7. There is definitely something about distributing a complex soundscape among many individual point sources that creates a compelling effect. It's interesting that this is a "choir", because of course that's what choirs do with voices. But there's something here that also seems to translate what we do with synths and electronics into the human domain -- it's really like granular synthesis in a way.

    The analog visualizations are so charming and 'retro'. They have a warmth to them that corresponds to the 'warmth' of analog sound, I think. One challenge though is that they don't necessarily scale, and don't have as much flexibility or variety as what you can do with digitally-generated visualizations. Something to consider.

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