Field recordings and electronics. Close your eyes and walk Marrakech Medina  part 4

MARRAKECH SOUND AND VISION 4

ORAÇÃO FORTE, fragmento da obra PAI dos BURROS, de Julio de Paula (peça sonora) e Teresa Berlinck (desenhos).
Com as vozes de Caia Amoroso, Armandino Corbal, Carlos Lima, Ana Belén e Julio de Paula a partir de rezas recolhidas por Cascudo.

ORAÇÃO FORTE

O taxista é o pivô de um triângulo amoroso. Uma conselheira sentimental no viva-voz do telefone celular opina sobre a história de paixão e traição. Os dois trocam informações sobre as provas (fotos e vídeos) sem se darem conta de que eles também estão sendo gravados. Tangos dos anos 1910 evocam o passado atávico desta cena vivida num taxi em Buenos Aires.

A taxi driver is the pivot of a love triangle. A sentimental advisor in a mobile live voice call opines on the story of passion and betrayal. They exchange informations about evidences (photos and videos) without realizing that they are also being recorded. Tangos of the 1910s evokes the atavistic past in this scene played at a taxi in Buenos Aires.

Tango (Étude) 2015

Whatever it happened the man is alone in the pouring rain. From the car open door the radio is broadcasting some useless information, namely some cigarette advetrising.

(Radio adv. from late 40' .Public domain historical radio site)

ADAM CONTEST LOST RADIO STATION

Ritual Santo Daime & Umbanda (also called Umbandaime): Desenvolvimento Mediunico.
Recorded on 2nd of March 2017 at the Fraternidade Kayman in Belo Horizonte (Brazil, MG).
The ritual is lead by Paï Joao (spirit form a slave from Africa) in the body of Pai Pierry and the main singer is Pamela.
https://www.facebook.com/FraternidadeKayman/

Recorded by a MS Setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8 in Cinela Zephyx Windscreen. Recorder Sound Devices 633.
Original file in Wave 96kHz 24bit (here available for download in mp3)

Other sounds from Brazil on http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/packs/21476/
More sounds on www.felixblume.com

Ritual Santo Daime & Umbanda at the Fraternidade Kayman (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

Poema 23 - Bruna Beber

Live recording - H.Villa-Lobos - O Polichinelo (A Prole do bebê nº1)

Drum rehearsal of Vai-Vai Samba School: rhytms and rhytmic windows. Excerpt from the acoustic canvas “Metropolis Sao Paulo”. Work commissioned by the German radio station WDR and nominated for the European Prix Acustica. Composition/Sound Design: Regina Porto. Recordings (urban soundscapes and samba-school court): Louis Robin, Julio de Paula, Regina Porto. Photo: Bruno Schultze.

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Ensaio da bateria da Escola de Samba Vai-Vai: ritmos e janelas rítmicas. Excerto do mural acústico “Metropolis Sao Paulo”. Peça comissionada pela emissora de rádio alemã WDR e indicada ao Prix Acustica europeu. Composição/Design sonoro: Regina Porto. Som direto (sons urbanos e quadra da escola): Louis Robin, Julio de Paula, Regina Porto. Photo: Bruno Schultze.

SAO PAULO pulses | A cidade pulsa

Matter is sound and sound is matter. Since the mapping of amino acids to sound is unique, it can be reversed – out of sound, comes a unique sequence of amino acids. Here we experiment with an exercise to make sound into material, whereby we compose new music derived from protein sonifications of different virus species. This offers a new avenue for interspecies communication, using sound as a sort of universal language of life. 

The result sounds otherworldly, as we travel into the strange sounds, rhythms, and melodies of the inner workings of proteins - not just one, but a musical integration, a jamming, of different ones. The music is performed using an ensemble of violin, flute, koto and other harp instruments, brass, timpani drums, and string sections. 

To do this we generated a large amount of "songs" from spike proteins found in various coronavirus species.  We then teach an artificial neural network - AI - how these different proteins sound like. And then, we use AI to generate new music, and translate the music back to proteins. This allowed us to come up with new protein designs that nature has not yet invented. 

What you hear in this piece is the musical realization of this new protein design, a result of proteins from different viruses jamming together through machine learning, and self-assembling into new forms. It is a journey into a new world where proteins across species interact and recombine, each contributing patterns, ideas, from their respective language of life. 

This work was first presented at TEDx Basel on May 1, 2020. 

BROADER IMPACTS

Through music, we can learn to speak the language of life. This may revolutionize our ability to understand life, treat diseases, and develop new medical technologies and biomaterials, or even drugs. 

Music is everywhere. Matter is sound and sound is matter.

TRACK IMAGE

The track image was generated using the method described in [1].

[1] M. Buehler, "Liquified protein vibrations, classification and cross-paradigm de novo image generation using deep neural networks," https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07603

Viral Protein Jam

Matter is sound and sound is matter. Since the mapping of amino acids to sound is unique, it can be reversed – out of sound, comes a unique sequence of amino acids. Here we experiment with an exercise to make sound into material, whereby we compose new music derived from protein sonifications of different virus species. This offers a new avenue for interspecies communication, using sound as a sort of universal language of life. 

This is a modified version of this piece: https://soundcloud.com/user-275864738/viral-protein-jam, expressed here as an ambient, lengthy musical experiment that offers variations of the protein design theme. 

Through this musical experiment we travel into the strange sounds, rhythms, and melodies of the inner workings of proteins - not just one, but a musical integration, a jamming, of different ones.  

The music was created by generating a large amount of "songs" from spike proteins found in various coronavirus species, then teaching an artificial neural network - AI - how these different proteins sound like. And then, we use AI to generate new music, and translate the music back to proteins. This allowed us to come up with new protein designs that nature has not yet invented.

The sound reflects the musical realization of this new protein design. It is a journey into a new world where proteins across species interact and recombine, each contributing patterns, ideas, from their respective language of life.

BROADER IMPACTS

Through music, we can learn to speak the language of life. This may revolutionize our ability to understand life, treat diseases, and develop new medical technologies and biomaterials, or even drugs.

Music is everywhere. Matter is sound and sound is matter.

TRACK IMAGE

The track image was generated using the method described in [1].

[1] M. Buehler, "Liquified protein vibrations, classification and cross-paradigm de novo image generation using deep neural networks," arxiv.org/abs/2004.07603

Ambient Viral Jam (Protein Inceptionism)

As mutations of the original COVID-19 pathogen emerge, we explore a musical assessment of different forms of coronavirus structures. In this example we focus on the G614 mutation, which has been dominating the spread of the virus in late 2020. 

The motions of molecules can not only be captured as “tones” or “timbres” in musical form, but can slowed down such that they are audible to the human auditory system as rhythm. 

Using this method, the vibrations of proteins in two mutants of the COVID-19 pathogen are translated into rhythms, and played simultaneously on the left and right audio channel, respectively. You can hear the slight differences between the mutations as a type of "stereo effect". 

Just like drum patterns follow a regular schedule of execution, the rhythms are played simultaneously forward, and backward, so that the resulting music features a symmetrical shape. 

A break in the symmetry is achieved through ever so slight alteration of the timbre of the beat, realized through the use of vocoders.

Emergence of Mutations: Differential Rhythms SARS-CoV-2 versus SARS-CoV-2 D614G

Julio de Paula (1972) trabalha com mecanismos de documentação, em especial da cultura tradicional. Radioartista, está interessado na gravação e deslocamento de paisagens sonoras latino-americanas. É diretor de programas na Rádio Cultura FM, onde desenvolveu seu programa autoral “Veredas – Música e Tradição Popular no Brasil”(2001 a 2012), premiado pela VI Bienal Internacional de Rádio do México (2006). Em sua pesquisa, busca um ponto de contato entre o rádio e as outras artes. Vive e trabalha em São Paulo.

Tango (Étude) 2015

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