[sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and "Subscription Modules"

[Czech Martin]

I can not remember where I got this information from.
Certainly there are scientific level measrurements
with data logger, I know that such a station exists
at the little river near to my appartment.

On Saturday I saw another crazy idea:

"The abandoned road". Basically a camera movent allong a 
northern coast road which went on for a year, i.e. stop-motion technique
during the year. While the camera moves forward you see the gras grow,
snow melt etc. etc.

I think there should be internet sites which display the actual tides
for nautic purposes?


OTOH: I think there is a problem with such "random" data, chaotic
processes etc.
At first, they seem to be very interesting. The theory and work behind
etc. But if you listen to the acoustic outcome, many such processes
are not interesting enough, i.e. somewhat disapointing.
I'm speaking here about generating audible waves from such data.
Perhaps the use as input for compositional structures gives 
more interesting results.

Never forget: if you write that the data for your composition was gathered
by night, staring in the sky, or by recording the sea level for one year
this is quite impressive.

If you say, oh, I just took some random numbers or this or that algorithm
on my computer it seems much less impressive today.

The story behind a composition is sometimes more important than the whole
composition. A very disgusting "feature" of the academic domain.

For some technical purposes, real world random figures, like noise diodes
are really important, because pseudo random won't do the trick.
But this usally appears only when correlation and other deeper investigations
/ transformations come into play. Just for listening it is hard to
identify a large cycle pseudo random source from something really random.

m.c.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of 
> Metzger, Michael
> A
> Sent: Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2003 19:46
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and "Subscription Modules"
> 
> 
> Martin,
> The recording of a lake sounds fascinating - well, the concept is
> fascinating, not sure how lively the recording would be. Is 
> there anything
> online about that project? 
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Czech Martin [mailto:Martin.Czech at micronas.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:34 AM
> To: john mahoney; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Cc: harrybissell; John L Marshall; Cynthia Webster
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and "Subscription Modules"
> 
> 
> Another idea: why not use a LDR for sunlight detection.
> Control voltages will depend on night/day, bright sky and rain.
> 
> I have heard about people recording the level of a lake for a 
> year or so...
> 
> m.c.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> > [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of john mahoney
> > Sent: Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2003 05:32
> > To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> > Cc: harrybissell; John L Marshall; Cynthia Webster
> > Subject: Re: [sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and 
> "Subscription Modules"
> > 
> > 
> > Hey, somebody has to defend Cyn, here!
> > 
> > The idea has artistic merit, except for the subscription 
> > thing, bah humbug!
> > ;-) Public news tickers aren't new, there's a national debt 
> > counter (in
> > Times Square?), a Nuclear Countdown Clock... But, art is "off 
> > topic," so on
> > with the DIY (... he said, narrowly avoiding an artistic debate).
> > 
> > You can use a PC to grab the data off the Internet and send out the
> > corresponding MIDI data. A MIDI/CV converter completes the job.
> > 
> > The trick is reading HTTP and writing MIDI, but it's 
> > *theoretically* easy.
> > Internet and MIDI functions are built into Microsoft's 
> > Software Development
> > Kits, for one. If I had the tools, I'd try it.
> > 
> > Now, you wanted that PC in a Modcan-compatible module, right...?
> > --
> > john
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "harrybissell" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
> > To: "John L Marshall" <john.l.marshall at gte.net>
> > Cc: "Cynthia Webster" <cynthia.webster at gte.net>;
> > <cgs_synth at yahoogroups.com>; "DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: [sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and 
> "Subscription Modules"
> > 
> > 
> > > Yeah definately !!!
> > >
> > > "I'll have what the lady on the FLOOR is having...."
> > >
> > > H^) harry
> > >
> > > John L Marshall wrote:
> > >
> > > > Cynthia,
> > > >
> > > > Too many triple lattes.
> > > >
> > > > Take care,
> > > > John
> > > > 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > > > 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Cynthia Webster" <cynthia.webster at gte.net>
> > > > To: <cgs_synth at yahoogroups.com>; "DIY" 
> > <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:54 PM
> > > > Subject: [sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and 
> "Subscription Modules"
> > > >
> > > > > (from a thread on the CGS list)
> > > > >
> > > > > Environmental,  Concept and "Subscription Modules"
> > > > >
> > [big snip]
> > 
> > 
>