Hi everyone,
I wanted to meet with at least someone who was present at the experiment in order to ask about what happened, and to begin discussing the next phase.
It would be extremely useful if everyone -- David, Shiloh, Andrews, Niomi, Tim, ... who was present in the Blackbox to write down a description of your experience, more in the far more ample empirical spirit of Roger Bacon than in the pre-schematized mode of a contemporary scientific report. Shiloh's first person account is a very good example to follow. It can stimulate quite valuable insights as David's interpretations demonstrate.
I think it'd be extremely useful for everyone to follow suit, even if your accounts of the event are less detailed now with the passage of time, I think it would be essential to write out as much as possible.
In lieu of my own experience of the staged event, and in lieu of interviews with you, I will await yourfree-form accounts before venturing a response and recommendation.
I'll try to talk with David today before flying out 8:30 pm
Who can set up the rig ?
Where is the equipment and software?
Is the gear packed up in a box and is the software in TML's svn directory (which one)?
Can someone -- Tim, Zohar, Mazi -- please place a diagram of the hw / sw set up (so it can be reported or reconstructed in the future in the TML WIKI for this project? OR attach / email it to http://memoryplace.posterous.com ?
Cheers,
Xin Wei
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From:David Morris [davimorr@alcor.concordia.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 8:25 AM
Unfortunately I’m quite tied up over these days and the weekend and so wouldn’t be able to make it…I think, though, that we’re in a too preliminary stage to really get much out of a debriefing…I should report, though, that Shiloh, in our session, had had the apparatus on for quite a long time,and when the apparatus was removed, she felt quite disoriented—something like a feeling ofweightlessness. We need to pursue this further, and I’m hoping Shiloh will write up a descriptionfor us. For I think that might be something we want to open up in the experiment—a sort of loss of anchorage in one’s bodily being toward the world that lets memory-place-identity floatfree…Good work all around…!!!David________________________________________________________________________________From: Of Sha Xin Wei
Sent: April-21-10 9:20 AM
Hi, I'm back today, and am eager to talk with you about the experiment :)Can those of us who are around meet for a debriefing echoing reflection refraction?
Sometime from tonite (after 6) through Monday noon? I'm available on the weekend, too.Apologies for not making a specific hour but I'll update my calendar in Google soon, and then put up MeetingWizard if enough of you are up for a chat in these days while it's still fresh.Also, we have a research hilights and plans meeting tomorrow Thursday 4-5 in the TML (EV7.725), so it'd be great to have participants from the MP experiments be present.Compliments all around. Thanks to Tim for the sound processing system, thanks to Zohar and Mazi for the complementary work. And the video document.A presto!
Xin Wei________________________________________________________________________________From: Zohar Kfir
Sent: April-20-10 8:20 PM
Hello all,Here is a very rough draft (& highlights ;) of the video documentation +
tracks of audio delays that Tim recorded off the patch.it resides temporarily on vimeo-- (sorry for the stretched image, the export took too long and I don't have time to revise it right now- to be future modified !)As for the next planned experiment-- we can book the projection/animation lab on the 10th floor for anytime (thats quite flexible) or, as Navid suggested- we can use the black box again some time in mid May when frankensteins's ghosts rehearsals are occurring. (Navid, can you please send the dates that can work for that?)though, It might be good to experiment in a smaller space this time?Im away for the next two weeks, but anytime after May 5th is good for me. shall we tentatively propose a date for mid May? David, what works for you?see you all soon
Zohar
________________________________________________________________________________On Apr 20, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Navid Navab wrote:If an algorithm isn't already available in Max/MSP...
The tml spatialization toolkit in Max/MSP that I have been developing for a while offers several methods for the gestural and algorithmic control of spatialization. The following are some easy algorithmic possibilities: rotation, circular random (random rotation), trajectories, attractors, random with user defined restrictions and random stability (how long to move steadily before changing direction), etc. It is also possible to connect these algorithms in parallel and serial to achieve hybrid behaviours such as a rotating source with it's center of rotation being controlled by a pseudo-random function or by a gestural controller. Also in parallel: a rotation source that makes messy and unclean rotations (rotation + rand). Mixing algorithmic control with gestural data (ie. Wii) is also interesting. In the past we tried defining a dancer's body as an attractor for sound sources and her movements as repulsers. Whenever she moved in a direction, sound sources (her own breathing sound) moved away from her and whenever she was steady her breathing-sound went back to her body as if her breath was attached to her by a spring. RE sensors, headphones and delays: Note that Binaural-Audio is not 3D because the soundfield's xyz axis move with the ears or headphones. However by adding a few sensors it is possible to keep a soundfield "fixed" in place while someone walks through it with headphones. Adding delays, accelerations and anticipation to the soundfield "position calibration" then might be interesting in this case. Also of interest might be manipulation of a soundfield's directional response pattern (ie. transforming a source from being everywhere to being sharply localized). Imagine a sound source that is sharply localized... but the closer you get to it the more it seems to be everywhere at once.best,
-Navid