Participants were asked to try to describe the sound of their own voices as they speak, so that what’s describing is what’s being described and vice versa. In addition to being recorded with a microphone, these descriptions were transcribed using Google’s voice-to-text API. Each participant […]
Monthly archives of “February 2015”
Cordey Lopez – Sitting Outside the Pavilion with the Elitist J. Vagushin
A wireless microphone attached to a blade on a rotating fan generates a feedback tone and a flash of light each time the microphone passes a speaker. Custom electronics alter the speed of the fan at irregular intervals. Ceiling fan, wireless microphone and receiver, speaker, […]
Danny Clarke & Eric Heep – Crystal Growth
When James Tenney developed his idea of modeling pitch material generation on crystal growth, he noted that, given certain simple settings, his algorithm would generate pitches in a way that mirrored the development of pitch materials over the course of Western musical history. This installation […]