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Propane and propane accessories.
A Rueben’s tube at a resonant frequency of 550 Hz.
Jared Ficklin’s demo at TED just went online.
I just focused on the fire.
12 responses to “Playing with Fire”
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I first saw sonifications demoed by Thomas Dolby at TED. It goes in the opposite direction, from visuals or data to sound. For inputs, he used the seasonal rainfall in California, sunspot activity from the SOHO satellite, and the ocean buoy data feeds during the Asian tsunami.
So I figured you could then visualize those sonifications, convoluting reality in both directions… At least that’s what I thought about hanging off the caboose of a train at full speed…
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Ah yes solareha, DNA Music…
and the sensory homologs bring us back to the archetypes of beauty, where I think we perceive beauty in the emergent patterns derived from simple iterative algorithms (shells, organic growth, fractals, culture, evolution) as they represent embedded computational complexity – a virtuoso display not easily replicated.
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very cool short video. thanks.
On the TED page comments, the speaker Jared Ficklin replied:
"I totally agree with you! When I went to created these renderings of song I went for my aesthetic over pure information. I have found when people spend more time with them they get more from them not just in an aesthetic sense. They see more information in them then purer forms of rendering. I am very comfortable with the reasons you have given.
I did not have time to go into the algorithm. But for the Nirvana songs I have an image of Kurt Cobaine himself taken during the famous unplugged performance. I plot the waveform over that image in a manner that adjusts the scale of the data to a pleasant way. I then crawl along the wave form and sample a pixel sized based on amplitude of a frequency matching an FFT I am iterating through. I then plot the channels L & R starting from center out, low to high frequency.
It is indeed a very simple algorithm and also a descontruction in a way. The result is Rorschach looking and people definitely put interpretation to it."
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Why not go large scale for the full pyro family interactive fire experience….
interactivearts.co/flux-fire
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