Xiuyuan

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pretty amazing web comic music video thing

https://ac-bu.info/kindolphin
by AC-bu, Baku Hashimoto and group_inou

"I am a shepherdess, and my herd is celestial and mechanic."

A new page of my comic Ekphrasis, which you can read for free here: https://ekphrasiscomic.neocities.org/

more NToET today...

trying to make parasite relations observable, but it unexpectedly turned into a regime/state observer: a sense of when the system is active, sparse, or near-extinct.

that in turn exposed another layer of confusion around the views themselves. the scrolling text field feels closer to a live spacetime monitor, while the raster keeps wanting to become an accumulated image instead. so end up tonight with temporal readbilty...

returning to Barricelli's Numerical Testing of Evolution Theories(1961) after not managing to continue it last semester.

just added a raster spacetime view next to the scrolling text view in SuperCollider, still in the phase of building ways to observe it, thought it feels slightly more legible now...

#SuperCollider #GenerativeArt #ArtificialLife

But even as it diffuses, objects always withdraw from any relation that tries to grasp them, as something in the water withdraws from the whole event. Withdraws from experience itself.
Reading Tim Ingold's <The Fountain>. He argues water and sound are the same diffusion event experienced differently: the hiss and tinkle in your ears, the wetness on your fingers, the sparkle in your eyes. Water doesn't exist prior to experience as a fixed thing. It emerges in encounter.

You build a diffusion machine, it exceeds your intention, you merge with it in listening, it withdraws anyway.

https://soundcloud.com/q-o2/tim-ingold-the-fountain-talk

Tim Ingold – The Fountain (Talk)

Using the example of a fountain, Ingold reflects on the nature of sound in relation to falling water. What does it mean to say that the sound of the fountain is diffuse rather than compact? What do we

SoundCloud

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116126904750939550

so scotch tape is literally a physical pulsar synthesizer 🤔 , and parameters are just your hand speed and tape stiffness

... the continuous/discrete properties of sound, (whether it reads as pitch or rhythm), comes from the ratio of these two timescales. ( macro-slips/mm => lfo; within each slip, hundreds of micro-cracks propagate to the tape's edge, firing a discrete pressure pulse )...

#microsound

Finally on break, with a bit of time this week... I'm trying to find a place that feels better for process and sketches, so I’ll be posting more scrambled little experiments and random thoughts here...