3D TODAY: 3D + MUSIC + COMPUTER + KNOWHOW + FEELINGS + PHYSICS + MATHEMATICS + SPIRIT + LOVE / PART 2

Friday, May 7, 2010

3D + MUSIC + COMPUTER + KNOWHOW + FEELINGS + PHYSICS + MATHEMATICS + SPIRIT + LOVE / PART 2

Big Think
Physics and Jazz Stephon Alexander

Math and Music: A Primer

"If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics." George Santanaya
"Music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." Gottfried Leibniz

"Give me an A" = 440hz

Hear the Greek Scale

Hear the C Major scale

Hear the C Minor scale

Hear a scale with no harmonics and full harmonics*

Math and Music

The Question "What is Music?" (and its many answers ...)
Solving a Scientific Mystery

Searching for an Answer to the Question

Connections between Jazz and Theoretical Physics

Connections Between Jazz and Theoretical Physics Explored in Woods Hole
Black History Month Committee Juneteenth Celebration June 19.

PDF: nefsc.noaa.gov

Create Digital Music
Real Sound Synthesis, Now in the Browser; Possible New Standard?

Bloop HTML5 Instrument inspired by Brian Eno's Bloom

"This is a demonstration of a simple touch screen video instrument by Al MacDonald (twitter.com/f1lt3r). The instrument is built using the Firefox web browser with no plug ins, inspired by Brian Eno's Bloom application available on iPhone." Bocoup

HTML5 and Javascript Synthesizer

A synthesizer running in a modified version of firefox (minefield). Corban Brook
Create Digital Music » Real Sound Synthesis, Now in the Browser; Possible New Standard?

createdigitalmusic.com

3D Sound Synthesis

Cindy Tonnesen and Joe Steinmetz

"3D sound, often termed spatial sound, is sound as we hear it in everyday life.
Sounds come at us from all directions and distances, and individual sounds can be distinguished by pitch, tone, loudness, and by their location in space.
The spatial location of a sound is what gives the sound its three-dimensional aspect.

The constant influx of sound from our environment provides much information of the world around us.

Slight echoes and reverberations in the surrounding environment give the brain cues about the direction and distance of objects from us.

These cues also relay information about the size of the environment surrounding us.

For example, a small room has fewer echoes than one with cathedral ceilings.

Additionally, the presence of objects in the environment outside the field of view can be felt by hearing sounds emitted from those objects.

In this way, hearing those sounds also serves as a cue to turn to locate the sound source.

Finally, information about the material qualities of objects and the environment around us can be gathered through sounds.

You can tell, for example, if an object is soft or hard by dropping it on a hard surface and observing the sound it makes.

Similarly, you can gain information about the physical qualities of the ground through sound.

For example, walking on wet surface yields the squishing sounds made as your feet make contact with the wet surface." Read this article by Cindy Tonnesen and Joe Steinmetz

hitl.washington.edu

The Freesound Project

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more! http://www.freesound.org/index.php

Ralph Lichtensteiger

A Taste For The Secret