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Harmophon by lasal:

This video only shows a short part of a longer incoming installation, which explores the relationship between 2 harmonic waves in different graphical/musical ways.

98 pair of points trigger notes depending on the collision position in the Y axis.

Panning depends on the X position.

For this piece the phase and velocity of both waves are synchronised to collide in a harmonic chord.

In the installation it would be possible to see/hear more complex relationships with longer running time.

The chaotic converges in harmonic, the complexity converges in simplicity.

Programmed in VVVV.

September-October 2011.

John Whitney would approve.

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Waves by Daniel Palacios:

A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element.

Depending on how we may act in front of it, according to the number of observers and their movements, it will pass from a steady line without sound to chaotic shapes of irregular sounds (the more movement there is around the installation) through the different phases of sinusoidal waves and harmonic sounds.

These kinds of action-reaction influences applied to sound and space are the basis of this installation. Due to its particular features, a space has a way of relating with sound, understanding sound as a series of compressions and decompressions which move through the air, so that the geometry of the space itself and the elements in it will influence the movements of the sound and finally our perception of the sound; adding to this entire stationary system a chaos of infinite variables from the most minimal movement on our part.

But even though this could seem like a mere representation of what we can’t see for ourselves, beyond the persistence of vision, it connects with our most visceral side, combining the intangible beauty of the represented graphic with the brutality of the sound it produces, creating a hypnotic environment of audible results and unique visual stimulations.

Tangibly, the installation is made up of two turbines, supported by a tuning fork structure between which the waves are created.

Nonetheless, it is the intangible, the process created there, which provides sense to the space it occupies and establishes a relationship with the public, who begin to discover that their movements have an influence on the space, sound, and alternate states of great agitation with others when they stop to see how the wave disappears in space like a whistle in the wind.

(via Sonic Terrain)

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notationnotes: Motion analysis of the movements of a bird in flight and a galloping horse respectively. From E. J. Marey ‘La Machine Animale’, 1873. zoom

notationnotes:

Motion analysis of the movements of a bird in flight and a galloping horse respectively. From E. J. Marey ‘La Machine Animale’, 1873.

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So, yeah, I didn’t have to think twice about reblogging this.

So, yeah, I didn’t have to think twice about reblogging this.

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Sequential
Saturn Cruises
A Trip To Paradise / Saturn Cruises [RSN 51]
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Sequential - Saturn Cruises, 1993, 11:28

This slice of classic hypnotic techno was unanimously voted track of the New Year’s Eve party at 5:01AM in the morning, but then it was just gone 5 in the morning and we are old techno farts so what else would you expect?

Effortlessly hypnotic, insistently driving, and synthesised with amazing clarity, Saturn Cruises is such an apt title for this cosmic journey. This is what Jean Michel Jarre would sound like if he had a 303 & 808 & astronaut fetish instead of an Eminent 310, Korg Minipops, and shaggy hair cut.

It mixes effortlessly with Air Liquide, Resistance D, Spicelab, Der Dritte Raum, Kraftwerk, most krautrock, and I have a tendency to mix it into Killing Joke’s Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Dub) but that’s not really the point because this track is made to be played, not to be segued.

Maybe it’s just me, but this kind of thing from 1993 sounds timeless now whereas it felt somewhat primitive in the later 90s. Regardless, I have never regretted cherishing my vinyl copy.

Thanks for the music, Pete Namlook.

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intweetion:

Kinetic Art - Dynamic Structure 29117
(by Willem van Weeghel)

Kinetic object with 32 independently moving lines. Controlled by an integrated computersystem. The video shows some of the constantly changing ordered and random structures that appear and disappear. Dimensions: 4.20m X 2.80m. 2007 - 2010.

Totally reminds me of minimal ambient demo-scene productions; a good thing.

The video goes on a little too long beyond the point of absorption, too, just like a good art demo. :)