Printmaking, conceptual and installation art
After doing the MWRA turbine/Orange Line tracks icosacomposite, it occurred to me that I should probably do one of the subway itself, without a wind turbine. So yesterday between 11:44a and 12:34p I recorded five 10-minute videos and turned them into a twenty-layer composite two and a half minutes long. Since the sound of the
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The whole concept of an English Swadesh composite begs the question: “Where are Swadesh composites for other languages?” Wonder no more! Last night I recorded the Swadesh List for Polish (Polska), with thanks to Karoline Gierymski. Tonight I chopped and squished all those Polish words and came up with this composite:
I kinda overloaded the sound layering engine in Adobe Soundbooth with 207 tracks of audio, so the original sound file I made was very clippy and full of digital static. This time I chopped the project into 23 groups of 9 sounds and then layered the resulting files together. This was still staticky, so I
So here’s another crazy little idea of mine. There exists a linguistics tool called a Swadesh List, which was invented by Morris Swadesh in the 50s and consists of 207 words that, hopefully, would be common throughout human languages. It’s used both as a bare-bones primer for newly discovered languages and as a way to
A continuation of the digital audio portrait I mentioned last month, I have generated a piece I call Samples in Waveform. It consists of approximately 47,500 raw sample values taken from a 48KHz/16-bit recording of my name, printed out on 40 72″ x 36″ pages. Each sample value prints on the page at a vertical
Well, you never know what’s gonna jump out and hit you next. I started a project based on a 1-second recording of my name about two years ago. After some messing around with stuff, I decided I hated where it was going and set it aside. Well, about a week ago I started thinking about