roots of sound art
Luigi Russolo (April 30, 1885 – February 4, 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913).[1] He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of “noise concerts” in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921. He is also one of the first theorists of electronic music.
sonic postcards!
Sonic Postcards is a creative education project devised and delivered by Sonic Arts Network, and takes place in schools throughout the UK, encouraging pupils to engage with their sound environment and be creative with ICT. This website contains all the Sonic Postcards created by the pupils alongside their accompanying work, for example, films, images of art work and creative writing, as well as other information such as project details, teacher resources, press and partner information.
Real-time graphical dataflow programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing
The Pure Data Portal
Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.
Pd was created to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max paradigm with the core ideas of allowing data to be treated in a more open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of audio and MIDI, such as graphics and video.
It is easy to extend Pd by writing object classes (“externals”) or patches (“abstractions”). The work of many developers is already available as part of the standard Pd packages and the Pd developer community is growing rapidly. Recent developments include a system of abstractions for building performance environments; a library of objects for physical modeling; and a library of objects for generating and processing video in realtime.
Pd is free software and can be downloaded either as an OS-specific package, source package, or directly from CVS. Pd was written to be multi-platform and therefore is quite portable; versions exist for Win32, IRIX, GNU/Linux, BSD, and MacOS X running on anything from a PocketPC to an old Mac to a brand new PC. It is possible to write externals and patches that work with Max/MSP and Pd using flext and cyclone.
interesting designs
I found this curious online homage to offline correspondence. Have a look!
myBrighton..
a brief slide of images I have taken during my first weeks living in Brighton.
sounds and voices performed and designed by me featuring Magus Chen Wei.
Enjoy!
getting inspirations for my ‘beyond the screen’
from switzerland.. really interesting!
THE WHITE RIBBON
saw yesterday at Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton the latest Michael Haneke’s Film. a master-work! I really enjoyed it. that’s great! I love cinema.. the ‘hot media’ par excellence!
The White Ribbon (German: Das weiße Band) is a 2009 drama film written and directed by the Austrian Michael Haneke. The screenplay focuses on the children in a village in northern Germany just before World War I. According to Haneke, the film is about “the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature.”[1]
It premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in May 2009 and won the Palme d’Or. This has been followed by positive reviews and several other major awards.
The events portrayed in the film are narrated as distant memories of the village schoolmaster.
The setting is the Protestant north-German village of Eichwald between 1913 and 1914. Here the pastor, the doctor and the baron rule the roost over women, children and peasant farmers. The puritanical pastor gives confirmation classes and causes his pubescent children to have guilty consciences over trivial offences. He makes them wear white ribbons of purity to remind them of the path of righteousness from which they have strayed. When his son confesses to masturbation, the pastor has the boy’s hands tied to the bed frame. It should be noted here, that there is a superb double entendre, as the film shows the Pastor lecturing his son, then stating that there is a way to treat him and then the film cuts to what appears to be the Pastor buggering his son, but it turns out to be the doctor and the midwife engaging in sexual intercourse.The doctor, who treats the village children in a kindly way, nevertheless humiliates his housekeeper (the local midwife) and sexually abuses his own daughter. The baron, who is the lord of the manor, does as he pleases and rides roughshod over his workers. This exploitation so angers the son of one of the farmers that he destroys a field of cabbages belonging to the baron. The young man’s mother had previously been killed when she fell through rotten floorboards at the baron’s sawmill and his grieving father is later found hanged.
Mysterious things happen. A wire is stretched between two trees causing the doctor to fall from his horse. The baron’s eldest son is abducted on the day of the harvest festival and is found the following morning in the woods, having been bound and thrashed with a cane. A barn is set on fire. The handicapped son of the midwife is attacked and almost blinded. The pastor discovers that his canary has been cruelly killed – apparently as revenge for the draconian punishments to his children.
The schoolmaster begins to analyse the facts, finally confronting the pastor with his suspicion that the latter’s own children have been meting out punishments on the weakest. The pastor threatens the schoolmaster, warning him to keep his suspicions to himself – otherwise he will face disciplinary measures. The culprits remain undetected and the events are not explained.
The film ends with the assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Ferdinand, and the declaration of war on Serbia by Austria Hungary.
The midwife rides into town on a bicycle – perhaps she has evidence for the police. The schoolmaster leaves the village never to return.
web design inspirations
find this interesting site for CSS based-design. I’m reading the related book. getting thinkings for the project..
suggest you also to read this book. very illuminating..!
