Special Issue notes

Prototyping

26th November 2024

Transcodology

• https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Prototypology/Transcodology-2 - audio
• Compressing audio
• https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/SI18/documentation/transcodology/transcodology.html
• https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Prototypology/Transcodology-1 - image
• https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Prototypology/Transcodology-3 - video

22nd October 2024

Recording with notations/scores of music

how the pianola works

• Mechanical instruments, memory coming from notation.
• Notation as storage on wooden rolls and disc music boxes.
• disc music box - interchangeable
• Pianola: each line is one key on the piano, the air comes through the line cut like a suction.
• Tom Johnson
• study for player piano
• diy epison phonograph
• optical sound - sdds
• digital recording - digitised signals into 010101
• pulse control modulation - measuring voltage

8th October 2024

• Shure sm58/ sm57
• Condenser microphone - more for studio recordings
• Shotgun microphone
• Polar patterns
• Kathrin Stumreich - Fabricmachine
• Robert mathey - wind
• Klaus Flip - sonic dust
• Victoria Chen - needle nails
• Dj balli - in skatebored we nozze
• Jan Yun - sun flower seeds
• Christians Kubisch - electrical walks / marine remix
• Alison Knowles - the book of bean
• Ryu Hangil
• Monochrom - field recording
• Voltage control synthesiser - control voltage. The VCO sends a visual representation to the scope

1st October 2024

• /var/www/html/graphviz $

• With graphviz: you recognise the errors, the process.
• https://aesthetic-programming.net/ make a cover image of the book and show which topics will be addressed.
• Mapping different recourses about their research of the cloud. They thinking about relations between serves and people and how these relations work : https://titipi.org/diag/so-and-sovereignty.pdf
• The Art of Asking Your Boss, by George Perec; described in Mainframe Experimentalism, by Hannah Higgins Chapter 2 + a radio version

Week 3 - 24/09/2024

Doodle drawn in class of the Piezo electric effect

microphone diagram?

Instrumentation and improvisation

• Pietzo electric effect
• A microphone covered in silicon, becomes hydro: can record underwater.
• The coil: putting it near an electric source can pick up the sound of the megahertz (hearing the electricity).
• Christina Kubisch

Week 2 - 17/09/2024

A note from Fred in class: helping me remember how to make code shapes for the html page.

• Servers: 'sandboxes' - responsibility of the whole two years.
• After graduation, you can download files but there will be no login access after that time.

• ssh: helps you to connect to the server.
• xpub1@: server

• control+c= to get back green prompt

• ssh: 'the shell'
• ls: move into file
• cd/ : look into file
• man : to look up commands
• pwd : print current work directory
• ~$figlet -f /usr/share/figlet/banner.flf
• pretag-
• ftp :file transfer protocol

Methods

Week 4 - 30/09/2024

• What is the web? Html, http, url - three protocols that define how to write documents and how to define locations for resources that are on the internet.

Html + css + js = the world got expanded, where people could form a document language and its presentation

• https://www.w3.org/
• https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
• Note to self: continue the soundboard!
• Java script: assigning certain functions, for example the play button, the audio tag, etc.. in instructs the play button etc..
• Callback code- code that will be triggered once someone clicks
• Hover action, also code that is triggered with an event.
• A search feature connecting to a soundboard - exercise.
• Parsing: any type of translation from anything unstructured. (Example: url to looking at the source code).
• 70s- ip address (internet protocol)
• 93 - web
• https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures-v8/

Week 3 - 23/09/2024

Sound boards:

• An html page as an instrument.
• Janick shafer https://www.audioh.com/projects/triphonic.html - modified a turntable and the key feature is that it has three arms. Three needles that could be placed independently on the record. It could travel and be used as a performance kit. Turntableism - working with the turntable specifically as an object. Very physical practice.
• http://145.24.131.42/~murtaugh/norton/triphonic.html
• T.S. Elliot, four quartets
• Looking at historical practices to influence and inspire what you make on your html soundboard.
• Javascript: Web audio API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_API Api or library software is very specifically modular. Using this gives you a way to make use of a library. A library built on the web audio API, widely available and integrated in browsers. It builds on a paradigm model that you see in a lot of software.

<input id=voice ----> voice-volume----> voice-delay (data-connect)

Week 2 - 16/09/2024

• Experimental: mistakes can happen
• The magic of the medium, you can adjust and respond in the moment.
• Group of 5 at work then the rest listen at uni- participating through the channel
• Moments in the afternoon are left for practical work and discussion.
• Producer, interface and three hosts talking in podcast. The interface is the person writing or taking images. The interface communicates with the hosts incase someone has asked or mentioned something on the online chat/ website. Roles would interchange between each week
• 10 weeks of broadcasting at worm, promoting the idea of musical experimentation.
• Excited by working with materials, problems and bugs. Could they be productive? Could this be interesting as a practice? Not forced into a one role layout. Trying out new things during these ten sessions.
• Cornelius cardew: working with alternative scores, interest in social context, sociality as a performing orchestra
• The great learning
• A webpage is a score, an instrument, an instruction.
• Ring modulator https://webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/ring-modulator/
• Scores to perform in the radio show
• The delian mode documentary