https://machineproject.com/ The Machine Project was this space in LA that sadly died in 2018. It looks absolutely amazing though and I’m still searching for a place even vaguely like it on the East Coast. Here’s a poster titled What is the Machine Project? 1 I mean, just look at the intro animation on their site: Another favorite: check out the Alvarado Caverns and Mystery Theater thing that ran there....
Originally found here: https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/ A PDF of the article can be found here. In case the link is broken, you can view a locally archived copy of the original webpage here. I found so much in here that immediately got added to my reading list for future rabbit holes, and found a lot of insight and inspiration within the article itself.
OK so this is an idea I initially came up with while sitting through an ETC Representative’s promotional lecture in my DRAM 204 Lighting Class on December 22 2021. Here was my notebook page from that day: The idea is basically what is outlined there, but I’ll summarize it here because that handwriting is hard to read I suppose. The Idea: Take the emission spectra of a light source like a CFL or a normal lightbulb, or of an elment like hydrogen, and turn those representations of light into sound....
I had come up with this idea “Spectra” for a series of songs based on the emission spectra of different elements and also light sources (see here for the original QuickNote, although the idea was in my notebook before that…), and as I was trying to figure out how to convert a waveform image to audio I found someone who had a similar idea and made something really cool: https://www.jiri-suchanek.net/en/project/atom-tone/...
Lately the news constantly talks about the impending metaverse, virtual reality, and the billionaires who plan to advertise to us as we sleep in our headsets. I have not been wildly excited. I don’t wish to spend all my time immersed in a virtual world, and I find the idea of it distressing. But today I watched some videos that Christoph Niemann made in 2018 and got more excited about the concept of virtual spaces than I have been in a while....