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Revision as of 15:37, 4 December 2020

Project content: a CONVERSATION between formats

Project contents:

  • inner workings and processes of data modulation explained
  • hyperfocus on detailed information regarding processes mixed with fictional elements (metaphors and inspiration from a 'guide')
  • user can interact: sending > receiving information (real-time encoding / decoding)

Practical:

  • text-based / command-line style interface: to create a focus on other senses
  • ASCII as image, code, sound: in between formats
  • website, Python, on a Raspberry Pi.

Tone of voice of the interface:

  • interactive fiction and text-based games (imagination!)
  • tone of voice: speaking on a personal level
  • Sonic Fiction / Matters Fiction: notion of 'planetary importance'
Welcome to my home. You are here:" <showing pi in my house>
You traveled a long way to get here in a very short time"
You just looked outside through a window, staring at the screen again, you think about the past.
Lately, I often got asked if I am a robot. Are a robot. Are you a robot?
As a kid, I used to record the sound of games instead of playing them: let me show it to you

Output:

  • website (publication) hosted on a Raspberry Pi as publication
  • part of the workflow will be used for audio/visual performance based on modulation of data (magnetic tape)

Inspiration taken from tape recordings of:

  • 'Alfa Training' course for motivation, regaining autonomy, and confidence to make life and work decisions
  • software (detail: music snippets of music in between)
  • recording of computer course: How to get online? recordings, of course, a process (mechanical typing sounds)
  • personal experiences

Prototypes so far:

  • IRC bot experiments: (Urzaloid Franklin)
  • 1-Bit sound synthesis (making music on a 'hacked' TI calculator)
  • SSTV workflow tests in Python: modulating images (sending/receiving – encoding/decoding, storing on tape)
  • AALIB experiments + Ascii (quilting): images converted to ascci via a generator in Python
  • KCS workflow: txt input > generated text > KSC audio > HTML 
  • API scraping(Planetary NASA data mixed with other sources)
  • A)PART to de(PART PY.RATE.CHNC workshop: collaborative tape loop creation and recording (materiality of magnetic tape, deconstruction of sound, sonic fiction)
  • interactive fiction + text based interface writing en generating text based on input.

Hackpacts

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1-bit music: TI-83+ calculator experiments

I came across an open-source project that makes it possible to 'hack' old Texas Instruments calculators and turn them into 1-bit music composing tool (instrument). The program ([Houston Tracker)] is still not being used so much and remains quite obscure. HT2 converts the binary output of the TI-calculator to generate 1-bit sound. What I think is really interesting is that 1-bit sound represents the on/off binary basics of computing. The 1-bit sound is therefore close to the process.

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https://youtu.be/sZSq1MqnVIw

key points:

  • 1-bit music programming and playback (using Houston Tracker II by UTZ)
  • materializing binary data + sound of the CPU
  • recording on cassette tape (digital to analog processing)
  • the benefits of working with limitations.
  • 'the sound of computing'
  • 'Zombie media': reappropriation of obsolete tech and explore it's potential instead of discarding it: what does it mean?
  • low-tech design: reveal inner workings (transparency)
  • implement it in today's workflow (audio/visual, programming, etc)

Publishing: To spread this project and both music, I thought about making a publication/release/demo in one.

Not only for the music as an artist but also to spread the word about this project:

I would write a 4 track album for it and release it on a TI-83.
People that buy it would receive a TI with the tracks on it (collected from thrift store / Marktplaats)
mail it to people

If interest arises:

hands-on hardware to get started.
See how tracks were produced might get people started
enlarge interest, spread the word & expand community?

This way, the public can not only listen but also directly engage and get their hands dirty if preferred. What I also think is interesting that in contrary to making music with the sound chip of obsolete gaming consoles is that it's much further detached from retro aesthetics. So it focuses much more on the tech part and thinking how to use this device otherwise.

playful ideas & potentials to further explore:

  • publication to make 1-bit sound
  • implementing graphics: bitmaps
  • How to embed this in a modern context? What's the use?
  • BASIC programming language

Resources

TiLP is a linking program for Texas Instruments' graphing calculators:
http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/

HoustonTracker 2 is a music editor/sequencer for the Texas Instruments TI-82, TI-83/82STATS, and TI-83+/84+/SE. It allows you to compose and play multi-channel 1-bit music directly on your TI graphic calculator: https://irrlichtproject.de/houston/

Graphlink cable for converting binary data to sound: https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-94327-Graphlink-USB/dp/B00006BXBS

links

Houston Tracker 2: https://www.irrlichtproject.de/houston/houston1/index.html
DOORS GUI: https://dcs.cemetech.net/index.php/Doors_CS_7_Scratchwork
graphics: https://www.ticalc.org/pub/win/graphics/
1-bit synthesis paper: https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/2020-troise.pdf
1-bit synthesis techniques: https://phd.protodome.com/#anchor-pulse-width-sweep

SSTV (Slow Scan Television) experiments

  • protocol/standard to send images over radio
  • for the experiments I am using Python3 in Jupyter Notebook
  • exploring the materiality of data via sound
  • 'slow' data transmission (in contrast with invisible processes and speed)
  • encoding /decoding: deconstruction of data
  • both interests combined: lo-tech graphics & sound!

LISTEN

  • SSTV tests
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playful ideas & potentials to further explore:

  • 'Instagrain Broadcasts'

  • screengrab and input image

  • SSTV out

  • signal picked up by phone

Listen to this image: https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbox/~markvandenheuvel/results/t.wav

resources:

boadcasting software: https://www.qsl.net/kd6cji/downloads.html
Python scripts to convert images to audio: https://pypi.org/project/PySSTV/
general resources: http://users.belgacom.net/hamradio/sat-info.htm
RXSSTV: http://users.belgacom.net/hamradio/rxsstv.htm
SSTV tools (encoding/decoding) http://www.dxatlas.com/sstvtools/
recent SSTV project: https://hsbp.org/rpi-sstv
Pictures On Cassette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c38dLDQoRtM

KCS: digital data standard explorations

  • KCS workflow setup in Python (Jupyter Notebook) (text input > generated text > KSC audio > HTML)
  • slow data transmission / image arise line by line
  • materiality of data via sound (physical connection, embodiment of a process)
  • deconstruction: encoding/decoding
  • storage and playback (on audio cassette)



playful ideas & potentials to further explore:

resources

Interactive Fiction/'Text-based' adventure

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_literature

Tutorial with David Moroto: https://www.davidmaroto.info/

"I think we met before... You find yourself in an empty space. Look to the right… What do you see? If you look to the left, there is a window that allows you to look at the past. Behind you is a door to future"

Inspiration & resources

SanctuaryRPG - (Classic Text Adventure Game)
SanctuaryRPG - (Classic Text Adventure Game)

SanctuaryRPG - (Classic Text Adventure Game)

SanctuaryRPG - (Classic Text Adventure Game)

SanctuaryRPG - (Classic Text Adventure Game)


Inspiration: Solarpunk: The map is the territory
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Inspiration regarding tone of voice: Shadow Wolf Zine (ASCCI zine by Legowelt about various topics)
Shadow wolf zine.png

PI: Selfhosting IRC + bot

https://pythonspot.com/building-an-irc-bot/

Urzaloid Franklin

Sandbox as a publication

  • showing where it is! (this is where you are!)
  • what happens when you visit (exposing a process with the emphasis on materiality)

resources:

Tape + analog sound/recording experiments

Tapeloop.jpg 32aqac4mdmm11.png Tape delay.jpg


Deconstruction workshop: materializing data over sound

  • recording sound of a deconstruction process: transfer to the physical carrier (analog tape)
  • recording data of images: broadcast SSTV signal
  • material combined in audio-visual performance

- the delay and reverb on binairy sounds - tapeloops: KCS code loops that generate textual / ascii output? - 1-bit drone

> https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/A)PART_to_de(PART


main question:

How do people interact with these processes and connect it the notion of Sonic Fiction?

AALIB + ASCCI generating experiments

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Ascii-planet renders.jpg

>>>>>>>C0/\/\/\/\0N F/\CT0R<<<<<<<

Related:

  • 'wacky tech' (low and obsolete tech processes )
  • what meaning emerges when low-tech meets high-tech
  • regaining autonomy and the value of misusing technology
  • revealing inner workings (trough sonification of a process)
  • obsolete systems as a method (not retro!)
  • the affordances of not emulating
  • "sonic fiction"
  • meaning that occurs when going between formats

general links:

https://www.westminsterpapers.org/articles/10.16997/wpcc.209/print/
https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/article/21808186/sending-data-over-sound-how-and-why
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/why-the-future-of-data-storage-is-still-magnetic-tape
http://screenl.es/slow.html
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