Saturday, February 18, 2012

Bird Step Sequencer (WN0040)



Love this one. In Kathy Hind's words:
By observing the resting of birds on telegraph lines, it was soon obvious how much the lines resembled a music score or piano roll. Thus, a computer-vision program was developed in order to scan a video of the birds behaviour to translate it into music, by triggering audio samples of a music box and a prepared piano in the same fashion as a modern step-sequencer.
Going along to see her talk about sound maps in London next month.