In the past couple of months we have seen so many groups and collectives band together to create a more positive art community in Florida. These vary from DIY communities to Non-Profits. The most recent we have come across is the Experimental Arts Union of Florida. EAUF is a non-profit based out of Jacksonville. Below is their mission statement.
“The Experimental Arts Union of Florida (EAUF) is a Jacksonville, FL based non-profit experimental arts organization, and performance space facilitator for Floridian, as well as nationally acclaimed touring artists of the experimental arts field.”
The experimental community in Florida is huge but always finds a way to stay under the radar. To see a group like EAUF emerge could only mean positive things for the future. If you are an experimental artist, make sure you register here!
“A student by the name of Bartholomäus Traubeck created a project entitled YEARS for the specific purpose of converting thin tree rings into music. He did this by using a Playstation Eye Camera, which read and converted the wood grain into music. This information was fed into a laptop running Abelton Live and the musical output is something directly out of a horror film. So, next time you’re walking alone in the woods, think of this music and savor the chills running up and down your spine as you realize that trees, were they able to sing, would terrify you.” - A Tree’s Age Rings Converted Into Music Sounds Like a Horror Score
Is it possible to grow electronic sounds, as if they were plants in a garden? Why are childhood memories of sound and silence so important to our emotional development? Is it valid to classify audio recordings of wind or electrical hum as musical compositions? Why have the sounds of our environment become so important to sound artists and why is atmosphere so important in music? In Haunted Weather, David Toop asks these questions and gauges the impact of new technology on contemporary music’s sound.
future reading. this book looks amazing, and is the source from which i learned about “space weather radio.”
nice shoutout to gainesvillain friends.
This is the sound of the aurora on Saturn. Pretty eerie, no?
There is no sound in space. Outside planets and stars, molecules are spread out too thin for sound to propagate. It follows, then, that we can’t really hear sounds planets emit into space. But radio waves—electromagnetic waves with wavelengths longer than infrared light—are, as we know, handy for representing sound. And so it makes sense for us to interpret radio waves, whether originally encoding sound or not, as sound. These are radio waves emitted in conjunction with auroras around Saturn’s poles, similar to the northern and southern lights on Earth. They were picked up by the Cassini spacecraft and then interpreted as sound. But the sound was not in the audible range, so it has been downshifted by a factor of 44. And finally, so as not to bore us to death, it has been speeded up by a factor of 22. Realize, then, that many human choices were made in order for us to be able to “listen to space.” But if you can accept that, you can enjoy this.
(via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
Seattle’s alternative weekly The Stranger has once again blogged about Transmuteo, this time with some very perceptive commentary. Please read, repost and comment by clicking here.
