Portal – Carol Of The Turrets #Merrymerrymerrymerryscience [#geekgirl]
Time for some tests! Shoot the subjects! Make them all die! (If they survive)
Bake them a pie! The time is nigh! Testing is here! Let out a cheer! Please sing along! This is our song! For the Animal King! We’ll always sing! Guns we will bring, bullets we will sling! Fill them with holes! That is our goal! Test if you dare! Are you still there Please sing along! This is our song! With joyful ring! We’re caroling! Neurotoxin Is pumping in! From everywhere! Filling the air! Filling the air! Filling the air! Oh, how they pound! Raising the sound! Throughout Aperture! GLaDOS is here! Merry, merry, merry, merry science! Merry, merry, merry, merry science! Testing all year! With Christmas cheer! We’ll only stop When subjects drop! With joyful ring! We’re caroling! Neurotoxin Is pumping in! From everywhere! Filling the air! Filling the air! Filling the air! Oh, how they pound! Raising the sound! Throughout Aperture! GLaDOS is here! Merry, merry, merry, merry science! Merry, merry, merry, merry science! Testing all year! With Christmas cheer! We’ll only break! For tasty cake! That is our song!
@_ANAT 2018 Synapse recipients Joanne Cannon + David Sly [#geekgirl]
Image: Joanne Cannon playing a ‘Serpentine-Bassoon’. Photo courtesy the artist.
Musician and sound artist Joanne Cannon will work alongside Dr David Sly at Swinburne University’s Clinical Technologies Laboratory to construct and evaluate a physical #holophonic #audio system, drawing upon recent software modeling, that will enable intimate and highly articulated localisation of sound sources and, potentially, real-time interaction during live performance.
Source: ANAT
A Galaxy of Suns – #SmartPhoneApp that plays the #Stars #DarkMofo [#geekgirl]
A Galaxy of Suns premieres at Dark MOFO, Hobart 10 + 11 June, 5pm with Michaela Gleave + Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus
A Galaxy of Suns is a smart phone app and associated choral performance event that ‘plays’ the stars as they rise and set over 360˚ of the horizon – for any location on Earth.
A Galaxy of Suns creatively interprets stellar information to generate one-off compositions specific to the exact location of each app user. The Earth is treated as a giant, spinning music box with individual stars triggering sounds and visuals as they cross over the horizon. These aural and visual expressions are related to data from the Hipparchos astronomical catalogue.
The rhythms of the composition are driven purely by the timing of the stars as they rise or set. Pitch is mapped to each star’s colour ID, a numerical value that indicates the real-life colour of the star and communicates its size, age and chemical composition. Panning is accurate to the star’s location on the horizon, and volume dictated by the distance the star is from Earth. App visuals closely map these parameters, subtle ‘starbursts’ forms appearing within the colour field, accurate to the star’s location on the horizon and rising or falling accordingly. The colour is based on the temperature and chemical composition of each star, with rapidly burning hot blue stars mapped to higher pitches and cooler old red stars mapped to the bass notes. Flashing briefly before fading to midnight, these colour fields provide a glimpse into each of these Suns – each a potential home to its very own solar system with a unique life story and relationship to the history of the universe.
A Galaxy of Suns offers an alternate way to imagine our relationship to stars and experience their presence, even in the most unlikely of locations or situations – deep in the forest, amongst bright city lights, during cloudy nights or in full midday sunshine.
The app will be released in Australia on June 21 2016, and internationally on September 23 2016.
Soundwwalks: laptop performance 2nd August, 2012 #www #experimenta #Melbourne #geekgirl
Soundwwwalk performances are an emerging genre of live browser-based sound performances where plugin sound-collage meets multitab mixing, shamelessly blending the traditions of acoustic ecologies, pro-surfing and laptop performance. The artists take the audience on a sonic detour through the World Wide Web. All performances follow the Soundwwwalk One-Line-Manifesto: “All sound sources must be played in a browser, must not be self-produced and must be publicly accessible”. This event will feature performances of new Soundwwwalk compositions by Christopher LG Hill (AUS), Andreas Miranda [NL] and Antuong Nguyen (AUS).
A Soundwwwalk considers the act of surfing the World Wide Web as a form of sonic action in the networked space of the Internet, a place where multitudes of sound sources, sonic events and acoustic phenomena converge.
The performance series was initiated in 2009, inspired by the world wide web becoming the largest possible library of sonic artefacts and recordings, considering any sound and video file uploaded to the web as potential but fluctuative material for sonic ideas and actions.
Co-curated by Bernhard Garnicnig and Jared Davis.
$5 at the door. Limited capacity. No bookings.
Thursday 2 August 2012, 8pm
West Space, level one, 225 Bourke Street, Melbourne