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Dreamachine installation set to give visitors a "vivid visual experience" from behind closed eyes
Architecture studio Assemble is one of the creators behind Dreamachine, an immersive art installation that will take place later this year as part of the Unboxed: Creativity in the UK festival.
Events producer Collective Act has conceived Dreamachine as a touring art installation that draws on the "ancient" phenomenon that flickering lights can be used to create colourful patterns behind closed eyelids.
"The use of flickering light to create vivid visual experiences can be traced as far back as ancient civilisations when communities would congregate around campfires and peer into the shimmers," said Collective Act.
"Today, the phenomenon is known to researchers as 'stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations' – and this provides the scientific foundation for the entire Dreamachine project."
Dreamachine is an art installation that visitors experience while their eyes are shut
Visitors will enter the "machine", a room designed by Turner Prize-winning London architecture studio Assemble, and lie down while listening to a musical score by electronic music artist Jon Hopkins.
As they relax, pulsating lights are streamed into the room which stimulates the optic nerve, triggering animated, kaleidoscopic patterns of colours behind their eyelids.
The effect is similar to the flurry of flickering tunnel or roadside lights that pass over closed eyes when travelling in a vehicle at night.
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Collective Act based Dreamachine on an invention artist Brion Gysin devised in 1959. The original device comprised a cylinder with holes cut into the sides around a suspended light, which is placed on a record player.
As the light spins, it projected light at a rate that matched the music and corresponds to waves present in the brain during relaxation.
"The primary phenomenon – the rich inner experiences created by the Dreamachine – involves our brain activity matching the frequency of the flickering light," the organisation added.
"Designed to be the 'first artwork to be experienced with your eyes closed', Gysin had a vision for his invention to replace the TV in every home in America," it explained.
Flickering patterns of light behind their eyelids are meant to relax the mind
Collective Act collaborated with scientists and psychologists from the Universities of Sussex and Glasgow to create the art installation, which it hopes will make us question the power of our own minds and our consciousness.
"Dreamachine is a powerful new kind of immersive experience exploring the limitless potential of the human mind," Collective Act said.
"The team is investigating the idea that flickering lights impose a 'beat' on the rhythms of brain, similar to the 'alpha' rhythm – a brain state normally associated with relaxation," it continued.
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Other projects at the UK government-funded Unboxed: Creativity in the UK include Tour de Moon, a series of touring events by designer Nelly Ben Hayoun.
The festival previously had the working name Festival UK* 2022 but became known as the Festival of Brexit, because it was conceived while the UK government was negotiating its withdrawal from the European Union and timed to take place a few years after the UK left.
Artist Richard Littler proposed a satirical poster for "Festival of Brexit Britain", based on the cover of the original guide for the Festival of Britain, which took place in 1951.
Dreamachine takes place from May 2022 in London, Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh as part of Unboxed: Creativity in the UK. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.
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Mechanical musical instrument stands on Belfast quayside
Architects Eunan Deeney, Matthew Kernan and Hannah Wilson have created the five-metre-tall SoundYard musical pavilion on Queen's Quay in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The ten-metre-wide circular canopy with central oculus is supported on 16 slim columns, from which hang two concentric sets of suspended rods.
SoundYard comprises 500 concentric metal rods
Walking, running or playing below the structure triggers motion sensors that cause the mechanisms in the canopy to turn slowly, striking the hollow tubes around them.
The instrument was designed so that the music it creates gets louder as more people interact with it.
The instrument is situated opposite the Titanic Belfast museum
"In order for the installation to project its maximum sound, collaborative effort is needed by its users to set off all hidden motion sensors," explained architect Kernan.
"These were carefully placed in order for them not to be apparent and introduce curiosity," he told Dezeen.
The design includes both polished and weathered metal rods
The outer ring of reflective metal tubes were designed to act as a visual and acoustic barrier, encouraging visitors to investigate the structure.
The inner veil was made from weathered tubes as well as the exposed turning mechanisms responsible for the auditory element of the design.
"The mirror-polished columns and soffit heighten the space whilst also creating an element of play within themselves, as users intrigued by their distorted figures point and play with their reflections," explained architect Kernan.
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The resulting soundscape was designed to be reminiscent of the constant, rhythmic noises of striking, hammering and riveting that defined Belfast's Maritime Mile when shipbuilding was at its peak.
The installations' site, which housed a brass foundry and coal yard in the 18th and 19th centuries, was more recently occupied by an open grass amphitheater, which informed its current use.
"We chose to work with [the existing site] and created SoundYard as a performance space for people to gather within and around" added Kernan.
A reflective soffit and central oculus draw the eye up
The large-scale musical instrument stands near the Harland and Wolff shipyard, which is famed for the construction of the ocean liner Titanic, where the Titanic Belfast museum now stands.
Its construction was funded by the Titanic Foundation following a design competition in 2019 run by the Royal Society of Ulster Architects for emerging architects to create a structure that integrated the concept of play into Belfast's cityscape.
Architects Eunan Deeney, Matthew Kernan and Hannah Wilson are graduates of the University of Ulster, Queen's University Belfast and University of Westminster respectively.
Other musical installations recently featured on Dezeen include Sonic Bloom by Yuri Suzuki, The Soundwave by Penda and Lullaby Factory by Studio Weave.
The photography is byJoe Laverty.
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LP in free download here https://archive.org/details/Invisible_Illusion_Electronic_Control_lp
ep in free download here https://archive.org/details/ardleg_electronic_control_ep
The Necrophile Hummingbird Netlabel presents Electronic Control [LP] by Invisible Illusion and Electronic Control [ep] by ardleg.
“Kairological Music for Conditioned People”.
I’m very happy that the second Invisible Illusion is a split with ardleg. Because ardleg is a companion of sound explorations since many years, in the collective KWAY https://archive.org/details/NomenclatureGenerale or next in La 6ème République https://archive.org/details/ROSA_LUX_La_6Eme_REpublique also for Zone fusION https://zonefusion.bandcamp.com/album/now-matter despite it’s still not published on the netlabel.
We are no more living in the same town but we try to keep collaborating thru time & space. Like I did with Humanfobia for the first invisible illusion TOHU WA BOHU https://archive.org/details/Invisible_Illusion_Tohu_Wa_Bohu_Disc_1
I sent the raw improvisation session to ardleg and he created these upgraded tracks listenable on the EP.
And next I reworked a little the raw tracks adding several layers to two of them, reading poetry on another one and that’s the LP.
I prefer called them EP and LP to avoid any order. That one would be before or after is irrelevant. You can listen first one or the other or both at the same time it’s up to you, like for the world : alternatives are better.
Seems that one important point with Invisible Illusion project is to show the result of different development process apply to one source…
About the surface of this album :
I found a plastic turntable cover with the inscription “electronic control”, it was transparent so I thought I would be able to made an interesting artwork cover by taking a shot thru this.
Then I decided to create an accurate music for it. After the quite dark Tohu Wa Bohu I wanted to slowly glide to the light.
That’s why despite it could have been far more on the electronic side actually it sounds very industrial music with a touch of “jazz”, not real jazz more the sort of dark jazz Mecano did on Autoportrait album.
Also the silence within silence has been record for the excellent compilation silence by Camembert Electrique. It’s a slightly different version https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/silence-within-silence than the both versions listenable on the LP.
About the depths of this album :
Do you remember ?
The first time you disobeyed to an order, not to something maybe acceptable from a skilled authority but from the kind of authoritarian people without skill, needing hierarchy power to show they are above the other, despite it could be just small team chief
with very little power, the smaller they are the more they need to prove it by being nasty. Do you remember how the struggle for this freedom make you aware of who you are ?
Disobedience is one thing but it’s meaningful only if it leads to autonomy. What a pity if slaves break their iron chains to swap with golden chains.
I will try to talk the less possible about control, because it makes me sick, but it’s the plot of this album.
There is only one song with real lyrics and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche quotations, most of the music is echoing the feelings grown inside me in the last few years.
So since the covid excuse to build up the electronic control society, situation is awful, it was already the case several years ago : there was the increasing level of state violence, state terrorism and media censorship.
It can still get worst making us our own cops, all that black mirror shit already more than half happens.
If it needs to resume : shock strategy worked perfectly and now as some said there will be no way back without fighting for our rights.
Well this sounds naïve, if you remember the subprime crisis or the looting of Greece, you know that the dices are loaded : states, banks, multinationals create rules that they never really follow.
Corruption is the replication process of capitalism virus. (Hand in hand with mafias). So what ? Solidarity is the antidote.
Perhaps keep a space to think by yourself, act by yourself at your local level, your own way,
keep your dreams alive and don’t feed the nightmare with your hopes. And at some point we may wake up.
All things begun with a little riddim joke came from a french broadcast http://jetfm.fr/site/-The-Russian-Fortune,165-.html, talking of a kind of CON conspiracy : control, comfort, consumerism… when you dig words in C working in that same objective of freedom annihilation it’s amazing because seems you can always find a new one.
And that’s the way all things end.
Good listen & thanks a lot for the support.
Love+Share+DIY
ed end
Video Art Clip
Soon or later here https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mixuptv/
Special thanks to Elmut Schwartz who helped to change Invisible Illusion’s diapers.
Dedicated to everyone uncontrollable and subversive acting all over the world.
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Introducing ossia score 3
"ossia score is a #sequencer for audio-visual artists, designed to enable the creation of #interactive shows, museum installations, intermedia digital artworks, interactive #music and more in an intuitive user interface."
Introducing ossia score 3
https://ossia.io/posts/ossia-score-3/
#sound #audio #visual #AudioVisual #intermedia #multimedia #art #artwork #software #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
https://www.hudsonlacerda.com/sonoridades/
#Sonoridades — #5 #studies for #guitar
#music #música #musica #Musik #musique #Музика #guitar #guitare #violão #Brasil #MinasGerais #Gitarre #Гитара #Китара #Gitaro #Gitari #chitarra #Gitaar #chitară #Gitarr #cultura #culture #composition #composição #estudo #study #educação #education #sound #audio #score #partitura #partition
War Sounds - Urban Warfare Ambience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB6HbKD8_uo&t=1s
1 hour sound effects
#sound #war #warfare
Hi,
Does anyone know how to set up ALSA sound server to filter out noise from the microphone
for videoconferencing? (I have a really noisy computer.)
I was using #pulseeffects, but after upgrading #Debian to #testing version, #pulseaudio stopped to work properly. So I am using ALSA again. (And #apulse for firefox.)
I tried alsa-rnnoise, but it did not work (sound format conflict).
Thank you in advance.
#ALSA #question #pregunta #questão #pergunta #audio #noise #sound #som #GNU #Linux #DSP #noise #ruído
#Trackers: The #Sound of #16-Bit
0:00 Introduction
0:50 The Dawn of 16-Bit Computing
3:08 #Multimedia Powerhouse
4:20 Early Amiga #Music #Software
6:40 #SoundMonitor
8:40 The Ultimate #Soundtracker
12:08 ST-01 #Samples
13:24 Soundtracker’s Commercial Fate
14:02 The Demoscene
16:00 Early Soundtracker #Clones
19:21 #Noisetracker
20:14 #Tracker #Musicians
21:36 Doskpop
21:56 #Chiptunes
23:15 #Protracker
24:03 MED / OctaMED
25:28 Trackers in the Mainstream
26:45 Later Amiga Trackers
27:48 #PC #Audio
28:37 #MIDI #Soundcards
29:34 Screamtracker
30:54 Second Reality
32:02 FastTracker
32:45 Impulse Tracker
33:29 The Advent of CD-ROM
34:26 Epic MegaGames
36:38 Contemporary Trackers
38:28 The Sound of 16-Bit
39:16 Finding Out More
40:42 Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
#amiga #protracker #demoscene #retrocomputer #history
Bonjour a tous ! Je suis #nouveauxici.
Je souhaite m'éloigner un peu plus des mastodontes du web et du hardware en me tournant vers diverses alternatives #calyxos #kde #riseup #fdroid #opensource
Mes centres d'intérêts sont divers #woodworking #sound #music #freeparty #festival #informatique #bois #lecture #actualites.
Noise maker drums with feet
https://i.imgur.com/FDJCKsj.mp4
30 sec video sound
#sound #noise #bird #cockatoo
A Good DAC Can’t Compensate For A Poor Source https://hackaday.com/2021/10/20/know-audio-it-all-depends-on-the-dac/ #sound #audio #hardware #dac
