FREQUENCY 2 – Numerical and Graphical Abstractions

-                Richard Glover: Inversions in Retrograde (2008)

Re-prime on definite and indefinite pitch, overtone configurations: overtone configurations: Sine v Saw v Voice

Missing fundamental / Timbre as timbre > 4000Hz

Inharmonicity: Saw v Various Metallophones

Cymbal Vibration patterns

Morphology and envelope normalising

Conceiving of Frequency Spectrum as numerical space

Problems of a logarithmic space

-                Hecker: Bsf-tyk 5 (2003)

-                Clarence Barlow: Approximating Pi (2007)

-                Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber: Cardinal Numbers (2011)

Extra-Musical Data Abstractions and Sonification

-                Stelios Manousakis: Examples 1-3 (2006)

-                Stelios Manousakis: Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees (2006)

-                Various data sonifications: Earthquakes, Subatomic Bubble Phase Transitions, EEG, Solar winds

-                Marcus Schmickler: RR 0 (2006)

-                Robert Alexander: Stereoscopic Solar Sonification

-              Alvin Lucier: Music for solo performer (Alpha Waves) (1965)

-              Iannis Xenakis: Horos (Cellular Automata) (1986)

Conceiving of Frequency Spectrum as a graphical space

Problems of graphical representations on the time axis

-              Iannis Xenakis: Metastasies (1954)

-              Iannis Xenakis: Syrmos (1959)

-              Iannis Xenakis: Mycenae Alpha (1978)

-              Julio Estrada: Eau-On (1980)

-              Julio Estrada: Eau-On-Ome (1995)

-              Slave Pianos: Sedulur Gamelan (2013)

LINKS AND RESOURCES: 

Sonification of the natural world:
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~raymond/Sonification_of_the_Natural_World

Hayward Tuning Vine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_7xMVzUa8w