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  Ben Dalton 10:49:02 am on May 27, 2010 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Acoustic Windows, art, audio, binaural, Marfa, MIT, notes, recordings, sound, Texas, TX

  I love how these read like some sort of miniature poetry. Maybe one day I’ll upload some of the recordings.

  disk 4
  2005-07-04 12_44.wav - supermarket 6.8 Mb
  2005-07-04 12_44(1).wav - supermarket talking in background 11.7 Mb
  2005-07-04 13_16.wav - squacking bird, too windy 3.1 MB 19s
  2005-07-04 13_16(1).wav - quiet a few birds 22.1 Mb ** (speaking at very end)
  2005-07-04 13_20.wav - cleaning up sounds 14.4 Mb ** (speaking at very end)
  2005-07-04 14_23.wav - bbq little wind at start 22.2 Mb *** good for radio (speaking at very end)
  2005-07-04 14_25.wav - clearing sticks train in the middle 66.6 Mb * really high pitched sounds
  2005-07-04 17_21.wav - town and country 19.2 Mb
  2005-07-04 17_58(1).wav - windmill and laughing *** good for radio
  2005-07-04 18_01.wav - cars and windmills (a touch of wind) 23.1 Mb ** bit windy, maybe ok
  2005-07-04 18_37.wav - rustling birds wind at end 8.3 Mb windy
  2005-07-04 18_39.wav - flies, cars, rumble 13.2 Mb *** good for radio (speaking at very end)
  2005-07-04 19_38(1).wav - talk, fireworks, some wind in middle 20.4 Mb *** (speaking at very end)
  2005-07-04 20_11.wav - klang klang wind at start and end 17.5 Mb windy
  2005-07-04 20_13.wav - drips and wind mill 11.2 Mb ** make into loop cut before beeps at end
  2005-07-04 20_57.wav - mdstartup noise, long approach car, some birds 18.8 Mb windy
  2005-07-04 21_10(1).wav - v quiet. metal tinking. birds. cow at end pinto canyon road 18.4 Mb **
  (speaking at very end)
  2005-07-04 21_14.wav - cows, birds insect, stone throwing 31.3 Mb *** (speaking at very end)
  2005-07-04 21_38.wav - bad sound in car, car door, after dusk at pinto canyon, cars passing 52 MB
  5m10s *** edit down start
  2005-07-04 22_23.wav - town and country after dark, train passing 27.7MB 2m45s
  2005-07-05 06_51.wav - windy then quiet then windy luna at the arroyo, dogs and roosters, distant
  highway 53.9MB 5m21s
  2005-07-05 06_59.wav - amber at luna on the last morning, birdies chirping, roosters 25.3MB 2m31s
  wind
  2005-07-05 07_26.wav - Ben at luna on the last morning, birdies, dogs, roosters, crickets 32.2MB
  3m12s  *** (speaking at very end) radio too
  2005-07-05 7_37.wav - Burros and pissing and and crickets and a truck at luna 58.7MB 5m49s  ***
  (speaking at very end) radio too
  2005-07-05 9_11.wav - footsteps and birds, beautiful, quiet metal banging 14.7MB 1m28s ** wind
  through
  2005-07-05 9_13.wav - good cars passing rockshop, quiet, 14.2MB 1m25s ** edit off start
  2005-07-05 9_14.wav - GOOD TRUCK (topped out) 11.8MB 1m11s
  2005-07-05 9_16.wav - seven minutes of perfection, am at rockshop 73.6MB 7m18s **** fade in and out
  2005-07-05 9_23.wav - one minute of perfection, am at rockshop ** a little wind
  2005-07-05 9_32.wav - truck at rockshop 9.2MB 55s
  2005-07-05 9_57.wav - Good! train tracks by the drug blimp 54.8MB 5m25s
  2005-07-05 11_54.wav - annoying mexican radio broadcast 45.7MB 4m32s 
  
  disk 3
  2005-09-13 19_01.wav - TALKING the fear is that the train was going away 13.7MB 1m22s
  2005-09-13 19_02.wav - TALKING I don't hear anything. 1m22s
  2005-09-13 19_02(1).wav - TALKING and cars 7m17s
  2005-09-13 19_02(2).wav - drunk and under the shirt, beer bottles 5m07s
  2005-09-13 19_03.wav - nowheresville 18s
  2005-09-13 19_03(1).wav - redford dog story 1m48s
  2005-09-13 19_03(2).wav - junk 02s
  2005-09-13 19_03(3).wav - blather 1m45s
  2005-09-13 19_04.wav - this is the train, shh 5m56s
  2005-09-13 19_04(1).wav - crickets, cars, listening from trestle, some wind, scratchy 5m45s
  
  disk 2
  2005-07-03 13_31.wav - judd 2m09s
  2005-07-03 13_52.wav - footsteps, crunching at chinati, wind ~2m *** radio cut wind
  2005-07-03 14_29.wav - inside artillery shed at chinati 1m53s *** radio cut talkk at very end
  2005-07-03 14_35.wav - inside artillery, joey speaking 21s
  2005-07-03 15_35.wav - what are you recording? crap 1m30s
  2005-07-03 15_57.wav - boring 1m24s
  2005-07-03 16_07.wav - joey braiding hair 1m07s
  2005-07-03 19_24.wav - rays are supermarket 1m28s
  2005-07-03 21_54.wav - wind 28s
  2005-07-03 22_17.wav - 3m of crickets, then rest yapping 7m14s
  2005-07-03 22_30.wav - loud, boring crickets with wind 49s
  2005-07-03 22_30(1).wav - loud crickets and cars under trestle 2m20s
  2005-07-03 22_43.wav - more crickets and cars under trestle 3m20s
  2005-07-03 23_18.wav - this is the train from ben's mic 5m43s
  2005-07-03 23_44.wav - crickets and cars again (plus one dooley) and some wind 1m14s
  2005-07-03 23_45.wav - crickets, crickets and a car 1m23s
  2005-07-04 00_08.wav - mumbling at the marfa lights and a truck or two 3m26s
  2005-07-04 00_27.wav - luna crickets, foosteps and Lalito's engine 12m45s
  
  disk 1
  2005-09-13 18_22(1).wav - wmbr 8s
  2005-09-13 18_22(1).wav - wmbr
  2005-09-13 18_23.wav - wmbr
  2005-09-13 18_23(1).wav - wmbr
  2005-09-13 18_23(2).wav - rockshop rustling not so crappy but crappy
  2005-09-13 18_23(3).wav - testing rockshop 15s
  2005-09-13 18_23(4).wav - birdies and cars ar rockshop; some wind but not bad especially at the
  end, train horn in distance 5m20s
  2005-09-13 18_24.wav - wind 8s
  2005-09-13 18_24(1).wav - lots of wind and drops of rain on tin and rustling, cars 1m27s
  2005-09-13 18_24(2).wav - wind. metal.
  2005-09-13 18_26.wav -  nothing
  2005-09-13 18_26(1).wav - rain and thunder. nice a bit short
  2005-09-13 18_26(2).wav - rain and thunder.
  2005-09-13 18_26(3).wav - thunder and rain.
  2005-09-13 18_26(4).wav - wind. birds. laughing. "hello"
  2005-09-13 18_26(5).wav - rustle rustle. wind.
  2005-09-13 18_27.wav - wind and rustle. then quiet rooster. then more wind.
  2005-09-13 18_27(1).wav - boring.
  2005-09-13 18_27(2).wav - trying to record the train. *** radio
  2005-09-13 18_27(3).wav - glitch
  2005-09-13 18_27(4).wav - train horn bad wind in middle.
  2005-09-13 18_27(5).wav - rustle. late night fire talking.
  2005-09-13 18_28.wav - aroya. wind and mic knocking.
  2005-09-13 18_28(1).wav - long windy walk through aroyo
  2005-09-13 18_29.wav - frogs and crickets 20s of good then windy
  2005-09-13 18_29(1).wav - slow fade in and out. crickets and aroyo
  2005-09-13 18_30.wav -
  2005-09-13 18_30(1).wav -
  2005-09-13 18_30(2).wav - rock shop birds
  
  short wind:
  2005-07-04 12_44(1).wav
  2005-07-04 17_58.wav
  2005-07-05 9_12.wav
  2005-07-05 9_56.wav - crunching, walking and wind 10.5MB 1m03s
  
  short speaking:
  2005-07-04 18_45.wav - throwing rocks 18 Mb
  2005-07-04 22_55.wav - luna "what are you thinking- of painting the house white?" 9.1 MB 55s
  
  bad:
  2005-07-04 18_21.wav - banging headphones test
  2005-07-04 19_38.wav - nothing
  2005-07-04 21_10.wav - not much 2.2 Mb

   

• Ben Dalton 01:31:29 pm on October 22, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: class, consortium, Csikszentmihalyi, interface, Ishii, Maeda, media lab, MIT, simplicity, tangible

  

  Tangible interfaces - simplicity studio class

  For some reason I never got round to making a contents page for my web responses to the class tasks set by John Maeda, Hiroshi Ishii and Chris Csikszentmihalyi in the Simplicity design studio I took while I was a student at the MIT Media Lab. The studio was John’s Simplicity consortium in the making – exploring ideas of what simplicity can mean. From the simplicity class page:

  Intellectual Goal:
  To develop a method for making concrete the process of designing for simplicity across interaction, aesthetic, engineering, and cultural concerns.

  Method:
  Core methods tested, debugged, and invented together with exercises from Design Fellows and Instructors. Skills culminate in a final competition of small teams.

  So here they are:

  • P1 more to less to more to less – creating visual scales of More to Less (set by John)
    • mine were typography, pimp my ride and brain capacity
  • P2 haiku to concept – write Haikus and create conceptual pieces based on it (Chris)
    • frozen chicken bird feeder was the highlight for me
  • P3 two parts rum – sketch a tangible interface (Hiroshi)
    • I proposed a cocktail mixing bar projection that would augment the bar top with instructions and advice
  • P4 weather reports – after a presentation from Alexander Gelman and a look at the IDEO design methodology, we were asked to design interfaces for weather information
    • I came up with peripheral bathroom weather displays, real sky isobars and city weather at a distance
  • P5 Tablepaper™ – after a session with Charlie Lazor we were asked to re-design a product that doesn’t ‘work right‘
    • I decided to redesign placemats as a disposable magazine format for reading, decoration and note taking while eating
  • P6 A onedo flutter – I forget exactly what the brief was for this one, something about process I think
    • I’ve always wanted to make an animation using bank notes. One frame on each note, spending the artwork after scanning it in. I chose ubiquitous materials (spray paint, money, porn, halftone print) and made each frame unrecognisable. It is only in motion that the result is clear. I loved Hiroshi’s feedback in this class – he said the low resolution animation on $1 bills suggested higher resolution on higher denomination.
    • Check out the money animation making-of images
  • P7 hello … hi … hi … er … hello … – create an algorithmic system for generating sound, images or motion
    • I chose sound. My piece involved standing in the MIT infinite corridor with a microphone and recording the first utterance from each person who passed (mp3). This recording was later published in the Ephemera issue of Thresholds magazine.
  • Exhibition
    • Our final exhibition in the foyer of the E15 used simple packaging (brown paper labels and boxes) as its theme. I designed the poster – you can see it on p11 of this pdf of some of my visual work at the lab.
    • My first pieces in the exhibition was a brass map using the Buckminster-Fuller projection that could be carried in the pocket. the idea was that over years, like a favourite sculpture, the map would be polished smooth in regions that the user pointed to often. I’ll see if I can find a picture of this.
    • My second piece was a video of faces to accompany my audio recording, installed inside one of the boxes in the exhibition.
   

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