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| oscillation series - sonic theories and practices #7 - Translation and Sonification |
// Talk, Presentation & Sound
// Date: 17. April 2011, 18h
The 6th session will be dedicated to: Translation and Sonification
Jan Philip Müller: An audio/visual theory according to “Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen” by Michael Snow
“Rameau’s Nephew”, a philosophical dialogue written by the French philosopher Denis Diderot was first published in 1805 in German – translated by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – while the French version seemed to be lost. When a french version (re-)appeared it was sent to Goethe to ascertain if it actually was the original. This little story behind the title of “Rameau’s Nephew […]” – a film made by the Canadian Artist Michael Snow from 1974 – already refers to one of its main motifs: Translation. This film contains more or less 26 chapters or experiments, each exploring a different aspect in the relation of simultaneous hearing and seeing, sound and moving picture. For those who don’t have the time to watch the whole 4 ½ hours of film I will try to give a summary and look/listen for its audio/visual theory of translation.
Profile: Jan Philip Müller
Jan Philip Müller studied cultural studies and economics in Berlin. His graduate thesis was on the media history of the x-ray image. Between 2002 and 2006, he was involved in various art and culture projects. In 2006, he began his doctoral dissertation with the working title „Audiovision and Synchronization. Seeing, Hearing, and Simultaneity in Sound Film,“ with a grant of the DFG research training group „History of Media – Media of History“ of the Universities in Erfurt, Jena, and Weimar. Since June 2010, he has been a Junior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar.
Michael Chinen: Sonification of Programs:
In this lecture, Michael Chinen will discuss his motivations and methods for the sonification of programs. The methods range from writing a program for sonification based upon code structure, to sniffing for memory allocations in a recompiled program, to using a real-time debugger to attach to external programs. Open-source libraries provide many tools to facilitate these methods; their specific functions and integration will be discussed as well. Additionally, the historical context that music in the 20th century provides for these sonifications will be reviewed.
Profile: Michael Takezo Chinen interests involve writing software in c and c++ to find similarities between computer processes and music, using themes such as hierarchy, synchronicity, and reference. Currently he is writing a suite of tools for the mac called the “fucking” series, which involves analyzing and sonifying the raw memory and processor state of everyday programs such as a web browser or text editor.
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