Prototyping 2013-10-07 (Networked Media)
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- Code Specifics: Writing a Feed poller / archiver
Based a bit on an example Max was working on, collecting the results of a "live" feed to make an archive is a common, and tactically useful, problem.
- Zooming out: Formal Languages: Procedural vs. Descriptive
- Python/Code in different contexts (some examples of "pure" vs embedded vs networked uses)
- Binary & Digital Audio Basics
- (ASCII to sound... what does this entail?)
- http://zacharydenton.com/generate-audio-with-python/
The simple act of opening an audio file in a text editor (or the reverse of opening a text as a digital audio) raises many questions. What exactly is a digital representation of a text, or a sound. The fact that once digital, bits can be as easily interpreted as text or as sound, or image, or other kind of data is at once fascinating, but also deceptively reinforces an idea of multimedia as inherantly bridging and mixing together media. Media formats, and their underlying digital representations, are highly specialized codes (algorithmic, legal) involved in the related processes of encoding and decoding.