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| | | composer scientist (usa) #cs sturm cd bob l. sturm “music from the ocean” compact disc - f = 5000n
- f = 3000n^1.5 + 30
- f = 35000n^2.95 + 30
- f = 2800n^0.2 - 1330
- f = 15000n^0.1 - 10360
- f = 0.002exp(9.2(n+1))
- f = 0.2exp(7.09(n+1) - 0.7)
- f = cumsum(randn(1,64))
- f = cumsum(randn(1,64))2
- f = 1100 - 1800n
- f = 20n^-1.5 + 30
- f = 7exp(20 - 12.09(n + 1))
- f = fliplr(cumsum(randn(1,64)))
- a = 1.0
- a = 0.5
- a = 0.2
- a = 0.05
- compendium
- 9-band
- 64-band
- original z-displacement time-series
- dur = 40 ms
- dur = 12 ms
- dur = 4 ms
- swell - 045200005 / bins 1:15/64
- sea -045200005 / bins 19:64/64
- storms - 029 and 071 200101-200102
- sst - 0452000
- f' = f*(sst/18.7)^2
- torrey pines state beach inner and outer buoys
- fall storm 2001
- cdip-wcb 200111-200112
- foam and froth of faraway storms
- sst-036200001 - f' = f + 1000(sst/7.1 - 1)
- random spectral frequencies
- random spectral bins
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "a = 1.0" |
| finally back in stock after a long absence !!!
call it wishful thinking, but when someone says those magic words “experimental music” - i don’t immediately think of someone programming 16th-note quantized beats made out of car-door slams in commercially-available sequencing programs on their dell/gateway pcs... i think of people like bob here, placing data-sensing equipment on buoys out in the ocean, then “sonifying” said data into full-frequency spectral-nightmare computer music... not knowing if the outcome would be any good or not... i.e. an experiment.
i had discovered this disc originally when some prescient soul uploaded its contents in dubiously compressed form to the old orktorrents tracker... it made its way, 2 years later, into one of my dj sets and voila; rediscovery... since bob was kind enough to send over a few copies for the shop at an extremely reasonable price, i’ve listened to this disc about 11 times; it’s amazing. i can only compare the outcome to the sort of fft-based computer music the folks like hecker are producing; only there’s no “composition” or “improvisation” involved; just faithful “sonifications” of extant tidal activity...
one of the only discs in the shop here that i can rightly call “sound research.” - an amazing science/music crossover that begs to be heard (just look at that tracklist!) ... comes with my highest recommendation. |
| | composer scientist press release... |
| this enhanced cd has just been released by composer scientist recordings detailing sonification and musical work using data from deep-water ocean buoys. it contains over 55 minutes of music and sound examples as well as an interactive flash presentation and research publication that provides more detail into the sonification methods and music. the cd also comes with a 14-page booklet explaining each track and providing several visualizations of the data. this cd can be played in any cd-player and will work with windows, linux, macintosh, and solaris.
from the back:
the pacific ocean is an immensely complex environment that has enormous impact on the entire planet earth. tides are predictable for the next 10,000 years, but the interactions of the ocean and atmosphere make week-long predictions of ocean conditions difficult at best. winds grip the ocean surface creating wave-trains hundreds of kilometers long, which often travel thousands of kilometers to finally break, releasing the embodied solar energy on some distant shore. deep water ocean buoys record these wave energies and make predicting coastal conditions easier. this data is extremely important to coastal engineers, mariners, military, scientists, commercial fishing, and surfers.
this cd is a demonstration and exploration of turning this data into sound and music. listening to the ocean creates a new way of understanding it. energy coming from storms thousands of kilometers away, local wind swells occurring in the afternoons, and seasonal and regional differences along the west coast of the usa, can be heard in the sonifications of the data. composing for the ocean is also explored by using the buoy as performer and ocean as conductor. the results can be delicate wisps to massive jolts depending on the location of the buoy and time of year.
included on this cd are a research paper and flash presentation which were presented at the 2002 international conference on auditory display held in kyoto, japan. these explain the sonification process in detail so that the data, the ocean, and the sounds and music can be better understood. |
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