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Music and Speech

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 22, 2009 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



theory: working notes

The Not Exactly Rocket Science blog covers a new paper on the links between musical intervals and speech. Interesting read, very suggestive for experimental sound work.






 
Discolored Computing?

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 21, 2009 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



movies: AESTHETICS

Has your older computer equipment turned an ugly beige? (Assuming that it hasn't always been beige.) Then the Retr0Bright project might be for you. It's a way to de-discolor older plastics that have turned yellow from UV radiation. The results are impressive.






 
Watch Frame by Frame....

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 14, 2009 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



random art notes

Toothpaste for Dinner offers a thought about the future of film studies.






 
Technesthesia and Synaesthesia

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 9, 2009 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



theory: working notes

There is an analogous relationship between technological translations of data from one type to another with synaesthetic responses: the transcoding of electromagnetic telemetry by Dr. Donald Gurnett is one a striking and direct examples of this type of sonification of non-sound data; however, it is also, in many ways, a non-significant transfer: the data in question are readings of wave-form encounters. The electromagnetic information produced from the Cassini mission, among others, has a long-recognized analogous relationship to sound, so the transfer from light waves to sound waves should come as no surpriseeach is a physical phenomenon whose transfer is less dramatic than the cross-modal sensory transfers familiar from synaesthesia.




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About "Semiotic Disobedience"

story © Michael Betancourt | published September 21, 2008 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



theory: working notes

The other side of the "culture war.




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