Name: Rojo by Angela Tavarez
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: Angela Tavárez

Based on work by:

Isabelle Su, Ian Hattwick, Christine Southworth, Evan Ziporyn, Eran Egozy, Tomas Saraceno, and Markus Buehler. 

In this experiment we use the sound extracted from moving through a spider web to determine equal temperament tuning pitches, and then arpeggiate through them. As we move around the spider web, the detected notes change over time, leading to an evolution of the sounds.  

The melodies that emerge through this process show how musical information can be extracted from the vibrational patterns, and their changes due to movements, from a web.

References:

Imaging and analysis of a three-dimensional spider web architecture

Isabelle Su, Zhao Qin, Tomás Saraceno, Adrian Krell, Roland Mühlethaler, Ally Bisshop and Markus J. Buehler

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0193

Spiders are abundantly found in nature and most ecosystems, making up more than 47 000 species. This ecological success is in part due to the exceptional mechanics of the spider web, with its strength, toughness, elasticity and robustness, which originate from its hierarchical structures all the way from sequence design to web architecture. It is a unique example in nature of high-performance material design. In particular, to survive in different environments, spiders have optimized and adapted their web architecture by providing housing, protection, and an efficient tool for catching prey. The most studied web in literature is the two-dimensional (2D) orb web, which is composed of radial and spiral threads. However, only 10% of spider species are orb-web weavers, and three-dimensional (3D) webs, such as funnel, sheet or cobwebs, are much more abundant in nature. The complex spatial network and microscale size of silk fibres are significant challenges towards determining the topology of 3D webs, and only a limited number of previous studies have attempted to quantify their structure and properties. Here, we focus on developing an innovative experimental method to directly capture the complete digital 3D spider web architecture with micron scale resolution. We built an automatic segmentation and scanning platform to obtain high-resolution 2D images of individual cross-sections of the web that were illuminated by a sheet laser. We then developed image processing algorithms to reconstruct the digital 3D fibrous network by analysing the 2D images. This digital network provides a model that contains all of the structural and topological features of the porous regions of a 3D web with high fidelity, and when combined with a mechanical model of silk materials, will allow us to directly simulate and predict the mechanical response of a realistic 3D web under mechanical loads. Our work provides a practical tool to capture the architecture of sophisticated 3D webs, and could lead to studies of the relation between architecture, material and biological functions for numerous 3D spider web applications.

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The raw audio can be listened to here: https://soundcloud.com/user-275864738/spider-web-sonification-porous-web-melody-x

Arpeggiated Spider Web

Con este canto quiero abrazar mis ancestros Tainos Africanos y Europeos

DANZÁ

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Rojo

Lunes 1 de Octubre 2018

2 de Octubre - Frase

3 de Octubre

4 de Octubre

5 de Octubre

5 de Octubre.

Letra y música 
Angela Tavárez
arreglos y producción
José Alejandro Bordas
grabado en febrero 2019

Cuando - Te - Pienso, cuando te sueño, cuando suspiro

Finished after the composer's death by Franco Alfano, Puccini’s TURANDOT is a beloved work in the opera canon, with a dramatic, imaginative, and sometimes violent score. This season at the Met, the magnificent dramatic sopranos Christine Goerke and Nina Stemme share the role of the ice princess in Franco Zeffirelli's opulent production. On this episode of The Metropolitan Opera Guild Podcast, we have a lecture from the archives of the Guild's critically-acclaimed series "Talking About Opera," with playwright and opera commentator Albert Innaurato taking a closer look at Puccini's final work.

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