==1x1/Bugs scored()==

(An electro-acoustic composition for live-audio-stream and two loudspeaker-orchestras.)
[[File:bugs10.jpg|thumb|the box]]
[[File:nn.jpg|thumb|the bux]]

“The first step is an intuition and it comes with a burst, then difficulties arise – this thing gives out and then that - 'Bugs' - as such little faults and difficulties are called – show themselves, and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite....” T.A. €dison

===Philosophy===

The term „Bug“ was already used in the 19th century for little faults in mechanical/electrical components. Later crackling noises on the phone were perceived as little animals, nibbling on the line. Computer pioneer Grace Hopper possibly used the word first for errors related to computers, as she publized the story, how a moth in a relay caused a malfunction of the computer Mark II, on 9th of september 1947. The moth was removed and taped to the journal, next to the entry „First actual case of bug being found“.

Today, bugs are omnipresent, considering humankind and technology. For software and hardware, total absence of errors is neither possible nor provable. Even expensive, manifold tested programs contain errors inevitably. So soft- and hardware, and even humans are at best considered stable or robust, when occurring errors are seldom and/or their aftereffects are rather harmless.

In our work „Bugs scored“, the metaphorical, technological bug meets its natural equivalent.

==Basic Idea==

We have a box filled with beetles here, and we want to do some tracking stuff with them to generate useful musical data.
All sounds and structure should be derived from these beetles, an interaction between spaces (Weimar - SanDiego) and technical „bugs“ (like delay, dropouts, feedback etc).

If we had a second trackable population on your side we could do a lot of interesting stuff, by exchanging/combining/mixing data for realtime-composition etc. But of course, this could be a little hard considering the time that is left for this semester.

Furthermore it would be somewhat exciting to derive pitch (and time) data from the beetles here and send it in realtime to SanDiego, for musicians to play it on instruments, which would then be sent back to Weimar for modulation etc. Mixed with the orginal/modulated beetle-sounds there are many possibilities.

Because we´re also not sure, if the part with the instruments is managable for now, we´re thinking about it in a more general way. What the actual project will be, depends on who will colaborate and what the implied possibilities are. So the result could be something like an audio-sculpture (a self-organizing sound system), a realtime-composition/improvisation (maybe with instrumentalists), or something in between. But we´re open and interested in your thoughts on what could be done with this setting.

===Setting===

So far, we have a box filled with beetles. There are several microphones and cameras built into it , so we have multiple audio-signals to playback/process/analyze and derive control-data from, and video-streams, which provide us with position/movement-data and thereby much more. In addition we have an Arduino for further sensoring and experimentation. Pd is our tool of choice.

*[https://soundcloud.com/hausdorf-workspace Here you can find some audible experiments we´ve already done with the current setup]
*[https://vimeo.com/66110137 videoexample tstfile]

===Participants===

*Ives
*Rico

==Links==
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==Literature==

* KybernEthik, Merve, Berlin 1993,Heinz v. Foerster
* Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Lügners. Gespräche für Skeptiker. (Heinz v. Foerster mit Bernhard Pörksen) Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag
* Insect Media - An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, 2010, Jussi Parikka
* Insekten in der bildenden Kunst im Wandel der Zeiten in psychogenetischer Sicht, 1977Erwin Schimitschek

==Audio==

*DRadioWissen - Klang der Tiere [1] - Ein kurzer Beitrag über Derek Salomon.
*Macaulay Library der Cornell Universität New York. Tonaufnahmen von verschiedenen Tieren, viele Aufnahmen von Derek Salomon.

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EKK:LoFi Sounds in HiFi Spaces/Rico

2013-05-14T09:12:45Z

Hausdorf: /* Project idea */

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I study Fine Arts at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. I'm currently working with live-streaming, insects ([[wikipedia:Bean weevil|Acanthoscelides obtectus]]) and live-electronics.

[http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/26346102 ustream recording]
[https://vimeo.com/64097344 video example]

==Interests==
I'm interested in composing experimental music, acousmatic/radiophonic works and creating installations.

==Project idea==

[http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/EKK:LoFi_Sounds_in_HiFi_Spaces/Bugs_scored Bugs scored]

==Platforms==
My main platform is currently Win7, but i also work with Ubuntu-Studio.

==Links==
[https://soundcloud.com/hausdorf hausdorf]

==Skype==
reich.grau

2013-04-29T07:05:39Z

Hausdorf: /* Mingled Videos */

==The Medium is the Message==

===[http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/EKK:LoFi_Sounds_in_HiFi_Spaces/Brendan_Bernhardt_Gaffney Brendan]===

While I prefer google's autocorrection of "the medium is the massage," this phrase points out the inseparable relationship between a piece's form and effect and its medium of presentation. Not simply does the medium describe the vehicle for a piece's execution, but it imprints itself into the piece's message itself. In our field of new media, the medium needs a special attention, as it can be overly impressed on the meaning or interpretation of the piece (fancy technology that doesn't relay a message) or not considered whatsoever (presenting a sound only piece without consideration of the acoustic space).

As with all art, context of a piece's presentation drastically impacts the end effect on a listener/observer/audience member. The classic combination of visual/audio presentation often results in a bleed between the senses, and trade attention between each other, each medium augmenting the other. When the visual and audible elements no longer relate, this serves to heighten the contrast between the two, should such a contrast be noticeable. In the case of geographic displacement of sound and images, each serves to heighten attention to the characteristic impression of the source location.

Again, similarly to our geographically disembodied sound, sound whose timbre or quality differs from that of its source, in the case of bad audio in a hifi setting, or high sound quality from antiquated electronics, there seem many possible impressions, ranging from novelty, confusion, excitement. These are largely influenced by the intent of presenting contrasting visual and audible elements, and serves again to heighten the contrast between the two.

===[http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/EKK:LoFi_Sounds_in_HiFi_Spaces/Rico Rico]===

ich halte den satz "das medium ist die message" fuer irreführend, falsch und in einem sehr unangenehmen Sinne für "autoritär". macLuhen vertrat soweit ich weiß, nachdem er wohl einige Jahre unter akutem Kontrollzwang litt, eine ähnliche ansicht. er revidierte den begriff und schrieb das Buch: "the medium is the Massage"
So wie wir die Videos und die sOundfiles vermischen, vermengt Mcluhan in diesem Buch in Zusammenarbeit mit Quentin Fiore (einem Grafikdesigner), Fotos, Comics und Abbildungen aus Zeitschriften mit seinen Texten. Die Texte illustrieren dabei die Bilder und umgekehrt. Die Ergebnisse dieses Buches sowie auch die unseres Experimentes zeigen gut, dass das "Verstehen" eine rein subjektive erlebte Erfahrung ist, die nie konkret steuer- und erfahrbar gemacht werden kann. (scientologen, würden mir jetzz sicher widersprechen)
Hätte dieses Zitat im Bezug auf unsere Kollaboration eine dringliche Relevanz, so wäre ich sicherlich dauerhaft enttäuscht, das meine "nachricht" nicht ankommt und das Medium, doch nicht "das Medium" ist.
Ich kann nicht bestimmen ob das medium, "das medium" und die nachricht, "die nachricht" ist und das beide als solche auch erfahrbar sind.
Denn selbst der Begriff der "realität" scheint heute nicht mehr haltbar, zum Einen weil wir wissen dass sich die Qualität unserer Wahrnehmungsapparate signifikant von der anderer unterscheidet.
Und zum anderen ahnen wir, das kontrollieren = Illusionieren ist. Der Kontrolleur ist Sender und gleichermaßen Empfänger, Kreateur seiner eigenen Realität. Und diese Behauptung bestätigt sich wohl auch anschließend in dem Unverständnis das vielleicht aufkommt über meine nachricht (schon weil sie auf deutsch ist) und dem vermingelten (wmv;) Medium (the pigeon girls)
..

ps. leider konnte ich kein telefonat mit brendan führen aber massiert haben wir uns trotzdem ;)

==Mingled Videos==

[https://vimeo.com/64996086 Weimar Eyes, San Diegan Ears]- Just to note, I made no attempt to sync the noise. It worked out that way!
[https://vimeo.com/65000908 pigeon girls] Just a little fadein and fadeout!