Tube with bicycle inner tube added to fit spirometer disposable mouth-piece Tube below is slightly wider so filed to fit disposable mouth-piece
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Started building the pepperghost today…lots of testing to do, but no room at Culture Lab, so the mighty GLOBE gallery have helped out big style… can’t thank them enough, they have also loaned me some exhibition walls which means great swaths of time and timber costs saved, because there’s no need to build a timber ...
Yogi’s breath plays via mic and yogi’s movement triggers sounds and samples from an accelerometer. The viewer’s breath triggers James Brown and The Magic Flames singing ‘Please, Please, Please’ sample. When the viewer stops breathing the James Brown sample stops. Leo Tolstoy described music as the short hand of emotion this for me does it ...
David Rokerby “I created the work (Very Nervous System 1986-1990) for many reasons, but perhaps the most pervasive reason was a simple impulse towards contrariness. The computer as a medium is strongly biased. And so my impulse while using the computer was to work solidly against these biases. Because the computer is purely logical, the ...
Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as ...
The Power of Om Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012mzsp Synopsis Reverend Richard Coles explores the world of spiritual sound and meditation and tries to understand what it is about certain sounds and chants which gives practitioners a sense of proximity to the Divine. He tunes into the Om, a sacred sound in several religions including Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism ...
Pepperghost scale model here > pepperghostscale Kate Moss and Alexander Mcqueen’s Pepperghost[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cou04-vOZx8[/youtube]
Live Electronic Performance Project Noise: the base substrate that we are all grounded in and almost always paradoxically outside of, not a defined territory, this is dissonance, difference, otherness. A non-representable, indexical? An innate capacity and breadth to both exist outside of a form and engulf a form, cosmological, a capacitor for change an evolutionary ...
All-inclusive dad at a holiday resort in Dalaman, Turkey.
Assonance recorded at an all-inclusive holiday resort, Dalaman, Turkey.
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A composition using wah wah effects on a field recording of breath during sexual activity… wahwahonthewoowoo by thecrack Ujiyi breathing – Straight field recording Inhalation and exhalation are both done through the nose. The “ocean sound” is created by moving the glottis as air passes in and out. As the throat passage is narrowed so, ...
I imagined Charles Bukowski sitting in Alvin Lucier’s room… He chose a poem to read, “The Genius of the Crowd” I thought it would be an interesting parallel to process Bukowski’s thoughts on crowd resonance…through Lucier’s system of resonance capture. As the poem keeps getting re-recorded (here’s the original bukowski_mp3) the size of the room, ...
Crime Maps
maps of kindness, maps of stupidity, maps of romance, maps of eccentrics…
Find a symbol, icon, visual marker or symbolic structure in the city. Pick something that has at least 5 instances within the city – and walkable distance between them. Imagine what links these signs and symbols – map them (on Google Earth for example) and post online for the class. Her Majesty’s Pleasure: References to ...
‘Flâneur’ – (a wanderer, a roamer) Stroll the city in order to experience it, as a detached, gently cynical observer. A passive figure, who observes the dynamics of the city from a disengaged point of view. Baudelaire called the flâneur ‘a botanist of the sidewalk’. City drift photo’s > Newcastle Built on a huge bit ...
Inhale by thecrack Ujiyi inhale 80bpm exhale by thecrack Ujiyi exhale justlow 519 by thecrack Inhale with just the lows, mids and highs filtered out Smallestinhalestrectched by thecrack Smallest sample of the inhale 0.0.1 – stretched to furthest point slowed down 80bpm Just stretched a bit further Suck by thecrack Suck the initial “attack” of ...
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Laya Yoga: Meditation on Internal Sounds By Swami Rama Laya yoga is the absorption of the mind in sound. The goal of this practice is to alter one’s normal awareness of self by focusing on hearing an internal, mystic sound. The mind will become steady and absorbed in the sound on which it focuses. In ...
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The e-Skin lab is a transdisciplinary group of designers and engineers exploring new ways in which technologies can expand tactile solutions. e-Skin is a research initiative to create an interface based on the modalities of the human skin (temperature, vibration, … Continue reading →
Roger F. Malina – Limits of Cognition: Artists in the Dark Universe