Wow, great work and I love the detailed and scientific process you've used - superb!

Very interesting concept - and the sort of pan-disciplinary work I can imagine him doing.

Buckminsterfullerene?! How fun! Thanks for this. Learned something new and loved hearing your work.

Amazingly elegant concept that you've executed here. Well done all around and beautifully listenable results.

the shape of it

This experiment sonified a buckyball molecule’s mass spectrum.

Mass spectrometry measures a chemical mixture's components by plotting the charge intensities of its various ions, creating a characteristic spectrum. I took the spectrum of buckminsterfullerene, C60, a molecule nicknamed “buckyball” that resembles Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes and was named after him. I scaled an analysis of its mass-to-charge ratio plot to show frequency vs. amplitude, creating a matching spectrum in the audible domain.

I then made a wavetable from a short excerpt of Fuller saying the words “mathematical possibilities” and assigned a bank of oscillators to read through it, creating a timbre directly from Buckminster Fuller’s voice and the molecule that bears his name (which, incidentally, is one of the largest objects to display wave/particle duality). I sequenced multiple layers of this texture, with filters, panning, and reverb added.

molecule spectrum adapted from this data (converted to frequency/amplitude pairs from JCAMP-DX format): http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C99685968&Mask=200

sample taken from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6yaSLipeWg

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buckyball spectrum [disquiet0226]

technical test turned into composition. first result of getting sounds out of the 1980 CBM 8032 computer. massive cloud of Lexicon 480L reverb in 2nd part and a low sine wave generator. The rest is pure 8 bit.

http://www.roberthenke.com/installations/8032series.html


8032 Alpha

"…ce dangereux supplément…" is a set of phonetic studies for voice, video, and electronics. A suite of three pieces [(tRas), (spɛktʁ), and (sɑ̃dʁ)] the work is based on a close examination of the sounds used in everyday linguistic activity, which are juxtaposed against more extreme vocal effects. The live performance is supplemented with electronic voices which stretch and transform this common vocality. The visuals range from rapid-fire successions of symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet, to more suspended meditations on elaborately arranged orthographic tapestries made from the same symbols.

"…ce dangereux supplément…" is a poetic rehearsal of the Derridean supplement, that unbelonging excess in a binary opposition which is (contradictorily) crucially indispensable. This takes place throughout the work via a dialectic between linguistic articulation (consonants) and voiced intonation (vowels). While moving between these two poles, the performer acts out a futile search for the primary referent (or "master signifier"), but eventually realizes all that is to be found is an infinite hauntology, a spectral chain of traces, specters, and cinders.

Recording with visuals:  https://vimeo.com/156198149

“…ce dangereux supplément…”

Performed by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie and Jon Singer , December 15, 2015. Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016. 7:30pm.

Info: http://jsmishalanie.com/music/piece-for-eight-microcassette-recorders/


PIece For Eight Microcassette Recorders

Medical text pp. 57: Age is an aggressive, virtuosic, and remarkably vulnerable piece crafted around the text found in the educational tome Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine Vol. 1 published in 1845. 
The chapter that this piece addresses is on the topic of age and its effects on the body through the multiple stages of life, beginning with nascent burgeoning growth and advancing to eventual unerring onset of decay. This piece manipulates the coherence of text and plays off of humanities want to comprehend speech in voices, often crafting phones and consonants that are similar to speech but contorting them beyond understanding. When juxtaposed with recognizable text and married with a plethora of timbral driven gestures and extended vocal techniques, smooth transitions between nonsense and meaningful text help to drive the piece through continuums of obfuscation and clarity.

Medical Text p.57 - for voice and live electronics

composed by Jason Charney

Amish community worship includes singing from the Ausbund, a 16th c. collection of hymns. The book contains no musical notation, only texts from the old Swiss Anabaptists. The tunes are passed orally in true folk tradition, generation to generation.

In practice, each hymn begins with a call from the Vorsänger, and the entire congregation responds - singing loud and slow.

Ausbund

Please Charge Roomba

Written for Sam Wells for the first annual SPLICE Institute at Western Michigan University.

Grain Elevator - For Trumpet and Electronics - Performed by Sam Wells

Arr. by Wesleyan University's Toneburst Laptop & Electronic Arts Ensemble, feat. Jennifer Beattie & Matthew Evan Taylor

buckyball spectrum [disquiet0226]

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