udk-avprogramming 2011-2012_WS

Olofsson: Audiovisual Programming - Protocols, Black Boxes, and Chinese Whispers

Protocols are necessary for forming networks of control devices, thus all forms of communication. Their details shape how we experience them; mappings of (numerical) values assign understand meanings to them that humans can understand - or not.  Different approaches can create black boxes - systematic mappings from inputs to outputs of which we know very little and can only observe - or meanings can begin to mutate as the messages are being passed on from one participant to the next,  as in the Chinese Whispers game.

In this seminar we will study the roles and implementations of protocols and connections between sensors, devices and systems; the concepts of mapping, scaling and filtering; and the role of encryption and analysis of data in different areas of the communication networks.

room111, UdK, medienhaus, kleistpark

dates

• 27oct: 111027 sc: tracking sounds (pitch, amplitude, beat, onset)
• 10nov: 111110 sc: instantdecomposer (play back patterns)
• 17nov: 111117 sc: instantdecomposer (record sound into buffers, detect start/stop of sounds)
• 24nov: 111124 sc+pd: audiovisual instantdecomposer (cut up sound and video)
• 01dec: 111201 pd: serial network (simple messages)
• 08dec: 111208 pd: more network (with simple sounds)
• 15dec: 111215 rjdj: intro+installing
• 05jan: 120105 rjdj: intro+installing
• 12jan: 120112 rjdj: blackbox project
• 19jan: 120119 rjdj: blackbox project
• 02feb: 120202 rjdj: blackbox project
• 09feb: 120209 rjdj: blackbox project

software

• sc (SuperCollider)
• pd (PureData (vanilla and extended))
• rjdj (pd (vanilla) running on ios and android)