User:Yiorgos Bagakis/prototyping/assignment1

I AM THAT I AM

After Brion Gysin's permutation poem

permutations software

i am that i am poem by gysin

Description

I am interested in using permutations in my first thematic project and the following exercise is a good starting point. As a form of concrete poetry, permutation poems emphasize in the creation of patterns and pictures out of letters and words. These may disclose, new decorative and semantic possibilities. Since I am quite inexperienced with code, I found this input example easy to follow and straight forward for understanding the sed substitutions while I listen to the final piece. The example I used is one of the famous Gysin poems. For the future project I am planning to work on I would like to create a permutations software.

Input example

iamthatiam.txt

I AM THAT I AM    
I AM AM I THAT
I AM THAT AM I
I AM I THAT AM
I THAT AM I AM
I AM I AM THAT
I AM AM THAT I
I THAT AM AM I
THAT I I AM AM    
AM THAT I I AM    
AM AM THAT I I    
AM I AM THAT I    
AM AM I THAT I    
AM AM I I THAT 
AM THAT I AM I    
AM I I THAT AM    
AM I AM I THAT    
AM I I AM THAT        
THAT AM I I AM    
AM I THAT AM I    
THAT I AM AM I    
AM I THAT I AM        
AM THAT AM I I        
THAT AM AM I I    
THAT I AM I AM    
I I AM AM THAT    
I THAT I AM AM    
I I THAT AM AM    
THAT AM I AM I    
I I AM THAT AM

iamthatiam.sed

s/I/c /g
s/AM/d /g
s/THAT/e /g

Then I executed the iamthatiam.sed on the terminal and with pipeline I created a txt file

sed -f iamthatiam.sed iamthatiam.txt > iati-out.txt

iata-out.txt output:

c  d  e  c  d     
c  d  d  c  e 
c  d  e  d  c 
c  d  c  e  d 
c  e  d  c  d 
c  d  c  d  e 
c  d  d  e  c 
c  e  d  d  c 
e  c  c  d  d     
d  e  c  c  d     
d  d  e  c  c     
d  c  d  e  c     
d  d  c  e  c     
d  d  c  c  e  
d  e  c  d  c     
d  c  c  e  d     
d  c  d  c  e     
d  c  c  d  e         
e  d  c  c  d     
d  c  e  d  c     
e  c  d  d  c     
d  c  e  c  d         
d  e  d  c  c         
e  d  d  c  c     
e  c  d  c  d     
c  c  d  d  e     
c  e  c  d  d     
c  c  e  d  d     
e  d  c  d  c     
c  c  d  e  d

wrap.sh

cat << END
 
@head {
    \$time_sig 4/4
    \$tempo 80
}

@body {
    @channel 1 {
        \$patch 14
        \$octave 8
        \$length 16

END

sed -f iamthatiam.sed iamthatiam.txt

cat << END
 
    }
}

END

And this will create the .mid file:

bash wrap.sh | midge -o iamthatiam.mid

Here is the final audio file: File:Iamthatiam.ogg