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Jerimiah came into school last week with a TV set he found in an alleyway. He proceeded to take apart the television and - as it would seem to everyone around him - break it.
Break it real good.
He then took his stereo and somehow attached the two together rather titalatingly. He then played a CD, and the Television screen wobbled with a green, spastic line to the music. In short time and with only a found TV and given away stereo, he created an audio visualizer without electrocuting himself.
Jerimiah is my hero everyone now and again.
This was nothing less than cool, but I knew that I could have busted out my Powerbook, opened up iTunes, which also does visualization, and wrecked his little creation. I didn't.
Two days ago, it's started to snow, and it stopped sometime early Thursday. We've gotten between two to three feet of snow and if you've never experienced a snowstorm in a city, it's basically: crippling at first and then very, very dirty. Also, if you're thinking about doing anything outside of where you live: if the massive snowdrifts don't get you, the snow monsters will. Toni's porch collapsed and almost killed her and her meows. I decided to art/nerd around, since I can't get to school to paint and I forgot my sketchbook.
Jerimiah's little invention motivated me to work on something I've been playing around for a long time, namely the absolute reverse of what he just made. Instead of a audio visualizer, I wanted to make a visual audiolizer. I never heard of such a thing, but that's why I wanted to make one. I think my interest in Brian Eno from his Oblique Strategies Card Deck and learning about John Cage gave me enough shoulders to stand on to dry something interesting.
What you get when you audiolize an image is what first seems to be random blips and bloops, since feeding an images to an "instrument" as a musical score isn't exactly going to produce the traditional canon of musical composition. But, images/paintings themselves can be lyrical; they have patterns embedded within them. Everything is a pattern of something else.
Besides, didn't anyone wonder what a ducky would sound like if you used it as a score of music? I guess I just have slightly different desires than other people.
