User:FLEM/1.3

.my notebook is the place where everything is // i like to annotate in there what get stuck into my brain for one reason or another (//not all the thoughts are my exclusive property)

.special issue 18 // 12.04.22_

12.04.22

.present ourselves through relations

There is a city in the south of Italy, where the water is really blue and you can actualy see the bottom.There is a city in the North, that is Venice, where you can't see the bottom. There is a city in the UK where the water can be transparent but ... ocean, you can see a different sound. There is a city in the NL (Rotterdam) where sometimes you can see something, sometimes you can... what you mostly see are reflections on the water rather than underneath.

.analysis: There were no human actors in this one, factual statements, connected by materiality (water) describing them in a factual way, rather than emotional. Because it comes from Emma's mouth, I can see what Emma is interested in, and when she navigates cities, what she focusses on. A perspective interest. Between the factual and observational, repetition of "there is a city", "you can see"... Paints the scene and introduces someone that is both speaking and drawing you to that city. Both making the city emerge and also introducting the observer of thoses different waters in those different cities. By layering we start to understand that this much be a observer travelling. Destiny doesn't seem to be in this one. No Teleology here or in previous... Bringing non inter-personal relationships, also happening here , the city and the water takes part in what makes an introduction.

.how to make a microphone:

19.04.22

our first release: week 01

audio levels in audacity, transcoding & compressology, 4 effects to edit audios: loop, stretch, reverse, cut

20.04.22

steve's problems of notation: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation

texts: Text by Simon Yuill https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses; Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf and John Cage's Song Books Vol 1 (1970)

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation-MIRIAM&EMMA

emm and miri's notations

Start a rap battle and take turns. You're only allowed to say types of food/drinks you were not allowed to consume as a kid. Example: "Red Bull" - "Oreo cookies" - "Nutella" Chose a partner and an object. The item needs to be squeezed with the left hand of person 1 and the right hand of person 2. Take an existing song lyric and write it down. Try syncing the rhythm of writing with the rhythm of the song without listening to the actual song. Imagine you're a soccer coach and you need to scream over the field to give your team advice but you're not allowed to use language. Imitate the sound of your evening routine by scratching sounds on a table. Imagine you are Jeff Bezos. Start playing. Imagine you are Nelson Mandela. Start playing. Imagine you are Angela Merkel. Start playing. Imagine you're the owner of a café and your coffee machine just broke down. You try imitating the sounds of a coffee machine so the customers won't notice that the coffee machine broke. Think of an embarrassing thing that happened to you. Think about where exactly you feel that feeling of embarrassment in your body. Make sounds with these body parts only. 11. One goes underneath a table and puts their face on the surface. One goes on the top of a table. Both whisper to each other with their face on the surface. 12. Look at a scar you have. Try playing an instrument with that scar only. 13. Imagine you are the sun. Start playing. 14. Imagine the sounds you make while sleeping. Play them. 15. Try to play an instrument the way a giraffe would do it. 16. Scream "Fuck!" after every note you play. 17. Hum the sound of a commercial jingle you know but with your mouth open. 18. Calculate how many days it takes for your birthday. Take the nearest book you find, open page number [days until birthday] and the first noun you read will be your next instrument. 19. Eat a meal in the sun. 20. Think of a question. Look for the answer on wiki how. Follow the instructions. Only read words that start with the first letter of your mother's name. 21. Think of a rhythm. Don't play it. Neither move. 22. Stare at the sun without sunglasses. Describe the feeling in a calm and juicy way. 23. Imagine you are your alarm clock. Sing "We will rock you". 24. Take your shoe off and hold the opening of the shoe over your mouth. Start singing. 25. Go to a coffee machine. Order 2 coffees. Drink them in the sun. 26. Go into a big room. Make a sound. Go into a smaller room. Make a sound. Go into a smaller room. Make a sound. Go into a smaller room. Make a sound. Go into a smaller room. Make a sound. 27. Think of a melody. Ask someone on the left to think of a melody. Start singing the melodies simultaneously. 28. Say out loud something you would whisper. Whisper something you would say out loud. 29. Sit somewhere. Shuffle a deck of imaginary cards. Distribute them to the table and read the future. 30. Pick a song you like but it's not well known. Make another person listen to it. Make the other person sing the song without listening to the song again. 31. Sit on a chair. Fold your body and put your head upside down, in the middle of your knees. Try to look backwards (with your head towards the floor). Tell a story of your childhood. 32. Exchange your shoes with someone. Walk backwards.

our notations

25.04.22

experimenting with a piano piece in audacity.. (reverb, paulstretch)

https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~flem/pianoexp_WEEK2.mp3

the terminal and its commands

plotter pen

Started research log for notebook: Notebook

26.04.22

on the topic of uneven patterns: Week 02

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_materials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_design

http://tattfoo.com/discovery/Instructional.html

on diffraction and reflection

09.05.22

why not use VOSK to do live printing with the line printer?

vosk python3 script.py >> filename.txt
>> (to append)
> (to overwrite)
how to talk to the printer? same concept that creating txt file

10.05.22

on the topic of emergent opera: Week 3

sound experiments: soundsexperiments

https://monoskop.org/reader/ --> project comments pad

with Kim&Jian

1. 12 Inverse Reader Dušan Barok, monoskop.org The Inverse Reader is a collection of 64 writings, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries. While they are associated mainly with questioning of intellectual property and struggle for access to scholarly communication and artistic expression, communities around these libraries have also been actively engaging with amateur librarianship, scholar-led publishing, the politics of search, pirate care, critical pedagogy, self-education and other things which are brought here together. The reader contains a growing selection of more than sixty statements and texts presented at gatherings and publications over the past ten years. It is presented as a collective index of words and expressions from across the corpus. The terms are selected (semi-)automatically using a “tf-idf” algorithm [1] and linked to passages in the texts. The interface allows for adjusting the number of displayed terms and controlling the display of personal names. The list of all included texts is at the bottom (with controls to include, exclude and display the given text). The reader has been created on the occasion of the exhibition at Panke.Gallery and is also available online at https://monoskop. org/reader. Visit https://monoskop.org/Digital_libraries for more.

https://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/reader-on-shadow-artistic-independent-autonomous-digital-libraries/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf

https://monkeylearn.com/blog/what-is-tf-idf/#:~:text=TF%2DIDF%20(term%20frequency%2D,across%20a%20set%20of%20documents.

tf-idf
term frequency of a word in a document x inverse document frequency
Term frequency
Suppose we have a set of English text documents and wish to rank them by which document is more relevant to the query, "the brown cow". A simple way to start out is by eliminating documents that do not contain all three words "the", "brown", and "cow", but this still leaves many documents. To further distinguish them, we might count the number of times each term occurs in each document; the number of times a term occurs in a document is called its term frequency. However, in the case where the length of documents varies greatly, adjustments are often made (see definition below). The first form of term weighting is due to Hans Peter Luhn (1957) which may be summarized as:[3] The weight of a term that occurs in a document is simply proportional to the term frequency.
Inverse document frequency
Because the term "the" is so common, term frequency will tend to incorrectly emphasize documents which happen to use the word "the" more frequently, without giving enough weight to the more meaningful terms "brown" and "cow". The term "the" is not a good keyword to distinguish relevant and non-relevant documents and terms, unlike the less-common words "brown" and "cow". Hence, an inverse document frequency factor is incorporated which diminishes the weight of terms that occur very frequently in the document set and increases the weight of terms that occur rarely. Karen Spärck Jones (1972) conceived a statistical interpretation of term-specificity called Inverse Document Frequency (idf), which became a cornerstone of term weighting:[4] The specificity of a term can be quantified as an inverse function of the number of documents in which it occurs.

reading of saidiya hartman - the plot of her undoing

16.05.22

vcv rACK 2: substractive synthesis https://vcvrack.com/Rack

why not using this for bassline of the creative writing pieces?

audio experiment

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presenting instruments: complex synthetic voice, a highlighted reading session

using the tf-idf algorithm to produce sound --> the more the word is present in the text the louder it is

every word has their own weight

purpose: interpret a text/reading a text with a synthesised voice that doesn't try to be human but follows some specific words to pronounce words (pitch, volume, speed..etc)

to do:

synthetic voice

text to work with: a set of texts in the same language -->>>>>>> rejection letters?

algorithm history: to get the more significant choice, understand how it works, decide consciously how to filter and pronounce

can I work on a translation instrument? apfel>sound>apple>mela>sound

ideographic notation =/ sound notation

tfidf + synthetic voice

synthetic voice: espeak and adjust volume/voice/rate/[pitch? ] "espeak -a 100 'hello'" is very loud "espeak -a 50 'hello'" is only half very loud

TFIDF history Karen Spärck Jones designed (part of) the algorithm

https://www.askpython.com/python/examples/tf-idf-model-from-scratch

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/obituaries/karen-sparck-jones-overlooked.html

https://www.historyofdatascience.com/karen-sparck-jones-the-search-engineer-enabler/

17.05.22

on the topic of jingleboard parliament: week 04

proposal: the Reviewer (in the Piet): could make an advert on the piet both to join a session on tuesday, both to look at the stuff online and send a review back to the piet to be published the next time? THE REVIEWER

proposal for Week 5

18.05.22 sum up of interests

STEVE CLASS

transcription

collaborative writing

translations notations

functional object/book

live transcribing

addventure

chain novel/text --> can i make an experimental chain text? can you write an essay based on the structure of a chain novel?

from “the problems of notation”, scratch history: exchange the pieces 
produce—>share—>exchange—>perform—>edit—>produce—>share—>(..go on) 
writing <—> performing = exchange of pieces to be performed by others
--> multiple interpretations of a piece

live illustrating from the listeners [live listening // drawing --> intentional listening] --> it's important to focus on the listening part, is this a radio piece?

the "newspaper"[the printed outcome] will be the piece of rolled paper people will fill in while listening

the output/interface: 
       --------------- what is left to discuss ---------- [in the middle of the screen with hyperlinked texts--add supi's image]
modularity: obtained by random refreshing positions of the texts [texts can be positioned everywhere]
infinite scrolling [left and right to move from the hyperlink nest] --> never-ending collaborative writing piece, it can go on forever

instructional pieces --> notations for translations // create space for alternative and experimental translations --> research about experimental translations [1]

Translations that keep changing

more interested in writing than before, in analysing texts, mixing up, editing, mess a bit with texts and words

http://adaweb.walkerart.org/influx/muntadas/index.html

- NLTK analysis of words and texts —> use of functions for these experiments

- Multiplicity of media, movement between media

- Language patterns (corpus) - rejection emails // language patterns analysis

- Use randomness to play with the meaning of words

- Text visualisation methods

My old interests towards:

- recycling and using what you have to make something new

Can I make recycling of words? RECYCLED TRANSLATIONS

- Nomadic publication: moving from one media to the other, using different objects the publication can move through

RECYCLED TRANSLATIONS: I am interested in reusing already existing texts/processed texts but not to create new texts from scratch by myself

Community norms?

Pattern of behaviour?

Alternative living?

Book culture

Collective translation (the impossible process**)

Language and cultural patterns (rejection letters)

from the meeting with STeve

Where is the translation in the work that I make?...

The Impossible Process is a translation experiment that puts together different versions of a poem, Fiesta by Jacques Prevert to produce new, merged versions. A Python function goes through every line of both poems simultaneously, it finds the common words between the two texts and mixes the different ones, randomly picking a single word from the the two versions. [text image (two versions)] I found the different choices that translators can make when picking a word very interesting., I wanted to try out what would happen if they were mixed up. So you don't have to pick one stable, fixed translation, but you are presented with many options which the reader can choose from.

make a notation of work using this method...

i have a system of notation

what how why

go back to previous work [see also evaluation sheets]

value the practice

23.05.22

The theremin is one of the first electronic instruments and one of the first instruments played by not touching it.

1 antenna controls the frequency and the other the amplitude

from the meeting with Manetta aboutmaking instruments

continue tfidf ?

pick up translation prototype trim 1?

notebook as an interface

an interface to what?

ref to reading, writing, interfaces book by Lori Emerson

different needs for different kinds of notebooks? waterproof, smaller and bigger notebooks

needs for annotating

distributive practices

it not being about me as a producer

like the idea of modularity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ward_Cunningham,_Inventor_of_the_Wiki.webm

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/02/27/hypercard-adventures-a-classic-mac-and-hypercard-emulated-in-browser-apple-mac-hypercard-javascript-vintagecomputing-retrocomputing/

https://archive.org/details/TeachYourselfHyperCardSoftwareEmulation

https://index.simonbrowne.biz/about

subtitles for video/audio on the web: VTT

https://www.iandevlin.com/blog/2015/12/html5/webvtt-and-audio/

https://iandevlin.com/html5/webvtt/audio/audio-en.vtt

https://iandevlin.com/html5/webvtt/audio/

The Drag-able: a tool to create new structures for a text

24.05.22

weekly experiments

on the topic of nested narratives: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Week_05

discussion about the next three issues

07.06.22

on the topic of diffractive methods: User:FLEM/Week_06

result of workshop:

starting works:

Wendy Chun - Crisis + Habit = Update
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Song Book - John Cage

"Diffracted narration" interpreted by Chae and Emma

proposal for week 7: Week_07

15.06.2022

tango thermique & release week 7: unfolding [[]] implicancies

results: unfolding implicancies

as caretakers, we are happy with the results

as with every release, there are things to change, improve, and get rid of.. but overall it was a nice experience, especially to sit down all together and navigate around our content {idea: why not do it as a way to showcase content also in other situations? }

and see how the interface was functional and working as we expected, actually a bit even better

we were a bit worried that it could become like a fast and regular movement down in the folders, but it was solved by opting for collective movement: we move around altogether, listening to everyone's reasons and results of their work

it would be nice to see what happens with a big big amount of content

18.06.2022

proposal&ideas for 8th release: Week_08

on the way to paris, ready for our adventure
i can start to look back and write down something about the last months
to begin, i really enjoyed the structure of special issue 18. I don't know yet if it's about the experimenting part that satisfies me and put me in different situations every week
i like change, in general, so this is definitely part of the reasons
with my university background, i am also used to trying different media.. in the past, i used to work with videos, photography, animation, drawings, design, bookbinding etc and switched from one to the other depending on the need
therefore, playing with sound and sound mechanics and also approaching storytelling in a different way, by using my "new skills" in prototyping.. making things i was just able to imagine in the past something more concrete
i enjoyed creating small prototypes of things, finally, i understood the meaning of the prototyping classes, or at least i integrated it into myself and my way of thinking
i am happy i had the possibility to try new things proposed by other people: that moment when you receive the proposal and have no idea what it could be about, and then seeing how my brain starts to work and looks for inventive solutions to learn and at the same time to try something different out. Trying to look at things from different points of view, trying to turn them around and create something new
and i am also happy i managed, as a caretaker, to go deeper into my personal interests and see how other contributors would react to the proposal, to my thoughts, to my ideas
the possibility that your idea will become even more interesting after other people have touched them, experimented with them, or created their own way out of it
in addition, the way proposals are built up, the exchange of thoughts between us, seeing our brains connected together, and seeing the moment in which someone in the group has a solution to produce the result we are looking for. 
reasoning together
taking the best out of each other just by the means of talking
i also loved working with a different person every week. This gives so much power, i believe, and so much creativity flowing
everyone works, thinks, produces differently, and it's been really nice to see how we could influence each other differently and how we could evolve differently with every method we've been using and the person we are working with
i am happy that a lot of ideas are floating into my head and i totally feel the need to grab something and make it mine
and, as always, i think that the discussions and conversations we had with femke (and also between each other) are deep and interesting and open up to so many new horizons
i feel
inspired

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