week 5

5

Feb 22
Sound. How is sound heard, transmitted, recorded, reproduced, edited, compressed. Types of recording, mono, stereo, binaural. Sound illusions. Mp3’s. Garageband. Found sounds. Sound artists. Alvin Lucier “I am sitting in a room”. Amen Brother. Talking Piano. dot matrix printer music. Listen to NPR_digital.mov. Test your tone perception. Test your Rhythm perception. Look at some “sound illusions”

Processing. Learning about variables, the way that programs can have memory. Fundamental types in processing: boolean, byte, char, int, short, long, float, double. Choosing good names for variables is surprisingly important. How to generate random numbers. Conditional statements allow programs to make decisions. Understanding relational operators and logical operators in boolean expressions.

Assignment: Make a video from still images. Take 60 photos with a camera. No found images. No random old images you have already. Take new photos. Tell a story. Try stop motion, drawn animation, or just tell a story with photographs. We will in class on March 1 create a movie of the images using ImageJ.

Assignment: Create a Processing sketch that has a toggle button. The button should implement the following states: (1) normal, non-activated state. (2) Highlighted state (also known as hover state) when the mouse pointer is over the button. (3) Active state, when the button has been turned “on”. When the sketch starts, the button should be off. When the user clicks the button, the button state should toggle: if normal, it changes to active. if active, it changes to normal. Bring this sketch to class on March 1 so you can demonstrate it for the class.

Read “A Short History of Looping Music”
Read Madeleine Sorapure on Lev Manovich “Five Principles of New Media”
Read “Avant-garde as Software”
Read interview with Scott Snibbe Look at his work on his website
Look at “{software} structures” by Casey Reas

Optional:
Read Lev Manovich “New Media from Borges to HTML”Screen shot 2010-05-07 at 10.04.29 AM