Exhibition at Site Gallery (along from Showroom / Workstation on Brown St)

[Andrew Richards]

Not really Python this, but it does have a nice geeky slant...

I just wanted to mention a free exhibition at the Site Gallery in case you've
not come across it yet - it has a number of interesting and thought-provoking
items; one of my favourites involves transmitting ASCII characters via drum-
beats (= binary representation of each character), clever. I've attached a
couple of pictures of the corresponding musical notation to give you a sense
of it (and note that that particular piece is interactive: You can interfere
with the 'transmission')

cheers,

Andrew.

(+BCC Julian in case you're not on the PyShef list)

[Safe Hammad]

On 24 April 2013 22:53, Andrew Richards <ar-p...@acrconsulting.co.uk> wrote:

Not really Python this, but it does have a nice geeky slant...

I just wanted to mention a free exhibition at the Site Gallery in case you've
not come across it yet - it has a number of interesting and thought-provoking
items; one of my favourites involves transmitting ASCII characters via drum-
beats (= binary representation of each character), clever. I've attached a
couple of pictures of the corresponding musical notation to give you a sense
of it (and note that that particular piece is interactive: You can interfere
with the 'transmission')

Looks like fun. It took me a few moments to work out that each bar starts with the least significant bit!

Showing my age, it brings back memories of the noise of the old ZX Spectrum tapes which incidentally found their way into music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software#Spectrum_software_in_popular_music).

There's an obvious opportunity here to increase the bandwidth, for example, playing one or more parallel tracks at different pitches. I wonder, however, if there's a way to do this whilst keeping the transmission "musical". Could be challenging. Something to try out in Python???

Best,

Safe

 

cheers,

Andrew.

(+BCC Julian in case you're not on the PyShef list)

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[Thomas Kluyver]

There was also a thing a few months ago about playing code files, like the Linux kernel, as sound. The result couldn't be called music, although there were some interesting patterns.

I like Safe's challenge idea - encode the maximum amount of data in an audio signal that can be considered 'music'.

Thomas