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.

2 comments:

pingsandneedles said...

just love this Dom!

btw ... in your search for embedded audio, have you seen this ...

http://www.forvo.com/word/postcards/#en

they might be able to help??

(I tried searching for globalism! but it doesn't exist yet ...)

Dom Pates said...

A gem, eh?!

Good find re: the pron map. I keep coming across examples of embedded audio being successfully done in a map, but so far still not being able to do it myself. Will give them a shout and see if they can shed any light...