Sunday, October 01, 2006

Sarah Angliss. Sonic Cabaret. Winter 2005.

Hoover the talking seal
Nokia the starling
I remember she showed file of a machine that was an articulated robot arm with two mikes that followed sound. V spooky how it follwoed people around as if alive. At night, they found it curled up on itself - so that it could listen to its own engine.
Used to have organs specially to accompany birds.
Bulfinch Seronet (starved bulfinch so it thought it was winter)
Vocoder uses voice to control the sound the machine makes (into synth).
Sample voice. Faurier transfer.
Audacity free software
Untold secret of modern popsingers is the Entares autotune.
(Robbie Williams was asked about it and he likened it to a spell checker.)
(However dispute if some could not manage at all with the voice correction.)
Puredata & Processing Free software
Brighton Festival show
Proximity Effect with mikes = crooners.
Mains hum = 50 hert & Barry White
Below 20h we don't hear it.
The Godstop. Organ pipe below hearing.
Tried them at concerts.
Before electronic used candles to detect Infrasound. (Ghost story connection.)
The lecture included a sample godstop pipe. You didn't feel anything until you touched it, but then it was definately creepy.
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