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In Flock, music notation, electronic sound, and video animation are all generated in real time based on the locations of musicians, dancers, and audience members as they move and interact with each other. Computer vision software analyzes video from an overhead camera to determine the location of each participant, and this data is used to create music notation for four jazz saxophonists, to render a three-dimensional video animation, and to generate an electronic soundtrack. By inviting the audience to help create the unique music and visuals for each performance, Flock seeks to reconcile concert performance with the dynamics of collaborative creation, multi-player games, and social networks to create an engaging live event.

The phonaesthetic Circle.
An interactive, e-level-joy, musical experiment.

- Phonaesthetics is the claim or study of inherent pleasantness or beauty (euphony) or unpleasantness (cacophony) of the sound. Closely related to euphony and cacophony is the concept of consonance and dissonance -

In our interactive sound-study we make use of our current circumstances on e-level: Six workstations, complete with speakers facing into the room.
Each workstation displays a unique, virtual music instrument the user can play. The player determines speed/sound/loudness by rolling over or clicking parts. Visually the instrument changes accordingly; it might move/morph, disintegrate and re-arrange after a while of no interaction.

Six instruments make a perfect combo and will be played on six different machines (using all speakers, creating a surround-sound experience). The composer will keep in mind the modularity as well as the integrity of six sounds. The instruments will sound great by themselves as well as with two or all six. Non-professionals will be able to play together in a band.

Because this is a collaboration between sound and visual, designers might change the appearance of an instrument according to how a sound feels, and the other way around. Work in progress should be an open-mind process and is as important as the end-result.
This project requires a number of different specialties, as open for participation as possible: Sound-designers, actionscript-writers, animators and visual designers. The more “sounds and instruments”, the more fun!

Jill Taylor’s stroke of insight

How long does it take for hair to grow back if you pull it out?
How often should one wash one’s hair?
Is dry hair stronger than wet hair?
How dangerous is exposed hair (soft, wavy, lustrous in its natural form) to the controlling left hemisphere of our brain?

It is all about it. Hair. In unlike places. Even my future website will have it.

A motionstudy

Rotation: The movement of a body in circular motion.
Spin: Implies a quick rotation, perhaps freely moving with angular momentum

As long no other force interferes, there is no end and no beginning at constant speed.

tickling ears. and other quotes and sayings.