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Brilliant Noise

from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a plane as it crosses the path of the observatory...
"The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the Sun.
"By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena. Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking place...."

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Douglas Roberts-2

Re: yeow

The producers demonstrate quite a flare for cinematography.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Victoria Hughes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Brilliant Noise

from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a plane as it crosses the path of the observatory...
"The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the Sun.
"By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena. Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking place...."

lrudolph

Re: yeow

In reply to this post by Victoria Hughes

Was this supposed to have a link, or an attachment?

About ten or twelve years ago, Wally Feurzeig and
Oliver Selfridge were trying to get NSF interested
in funding a project to study "sonorization" (like
"visualization"), for application to (e.g.) computer
use by visually impaired people, but presumably
also for applications analogous to visualization
applications. As far as I know, they never got that
funded (this was during the period when GTE, having
bought Bolt Beranek and Newman for the sake of its
network stuff, had not *quite* finished deciding to
throw the research labs out in the trash; I gather
that since then the labs have somewhat recovered, and
when I saw Wally at Oliver's memorial service last
year he said he was still doing stuff, but that
project wasn't it).

I am a huge skeptic about the value of most
so-called "visualizations", and also about
"tone poems" and other classical (or, more
likely, Romantic or early Modern) musical
"sonorizations", so even if there were a link
and I had working speakers attached to this
computer, I don't think I'd download it. But
it would be nice to know (as could be deduced
from the link) who did this (and why I should
take them seriously, as either artists or
scientists). They sound (heh) like people
with too much data and too much computing power
on their hands. And a grant, probably.

Bah, humbug.

> Brilliant Noise
>
> from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and
> man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the
> CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame
> taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a
> plane as it crosses the path of the observatory...
> "The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via
> digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The
> sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the
> Sun.
> "By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena.
> Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw
> material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation
> of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking
> place...."
>
>
>
>

Douglas Roberts-2

Re: yeow

Must be using a text-based email client.

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Brilliant_Noise/BNoise.htm

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:56 PM, <[hidden email]> wrote:

Was this supposed to have a link, or an attachment?

About ten or twelve years ago, Wally Feurzeig and
Oliver Selfridge were trying to get NSF interested
in funding a project to study "sonorization" (like
"visualization"), for application to (e.g.) computer
use by visually impaired people, but presumably
also for applications analogous to visualization
applications. As far as I know, they never got that
funded (this was during the period when GTE, having
bought Bolt Beranek and Newman for the sake of its
network stuff, had not *quite* finished deciding to
throw the research labs out in the trash; I gather
that since then the labs have somewhat recovered, and
when I saw Wally at Oliver's memorial service last
year he said he was still doing stuff, but that
project wasn't it).

I am a huge skeptic about the value of most
so-called "visualizations", and also about
"tone poems" and other classical (or, more
likely, Romantic or early Modern) musical
"sonorizations", so even if there were a link
and I had working speakers attached to this
computer, I don't think I'd download it. But
it would be nice to know (as could be deduced
from the link) who did this (and why I should
take them seriously, as either artists or
scientists). They sound (heh) like people
with too much data and too much computing power
on their hands. And a grant, probably.

Bah, humbug.

> Brilliant Noise
>
> from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and
> man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the
> CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame
> taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a
> plane as it crosses the path of the observatory...
> "The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via
> digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The
> sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the
> Sun.
> "By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena.
> Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw
> material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation
> of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking
> place...."
>
>
>
>

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Victoria Hughes

Re: yeow

thanks, was about to respond- good to know that is what happens.

On Mar 23, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

Must be using a text-based email client.

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Brilliant_Noise/BNoise.htm

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:56 PM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
Was this supposed to have a link, or an attachment?

About ten or twelve years ago, Wally Feurzeig and
Oliver Selfridge were trying to get NSF interested
in funding a project to study "sonorization" (like
"visualization"), for application to (e.g.) computer
use by visually impaired people, but presumably
also for applications analogous to visualization
applications. As far as I know, they never got that
funded (this was during the period when GTE, having
bought Bolt Beranek and Newman for the sake of its
network stuff, had not *quite* finished deciding to
throw the research labs out in the trash; I gather
that since then the labs have somewhat recovered, and
when I saw Wally at Oliver's memorial service last
year he said he was still doing stuff, but that
project wasn't it).

I am a huge skeptic about the value of most
so-called "visualizations", and also about
"tone poems" and other classical (or, more
likely, Romantic or early Modern) musical
"sonorizations", so even if there were a link
and I had working speakers attached to this
computer, I don't think I'd download it. But
it would be nice to know (as could be deduced
from the link) who did this (and why I should
take them seriously, as either artists or
scientists). They sound (heh) like people
with too much data and too much computing power
on their hands. And a grant, probably.

Bah, humbug.

> Brilliant Noise
>
> from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and
> man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the
> CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame
> taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a
> plane as it crosses the path of the observatory...
> "The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via
> digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The
> sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the
> Sun.
> "By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena.
> Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw
> material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation
> of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking
> place...."
>
>
>
>

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Doug Roberts
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505-670-8195 - Cell

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Elizabeth MacDonald

Re: yeow

In reply to this post by Victoria Hughes

Wow. Thanks Victoria. I am a scientist who works in this field and works at LANL and a lurker to this email list. But I'm inspired to post by these beautiful images. They are familiar to me but the idea of using them to showcase the power of the creative transformation possible between science and art is really speaking to me. And it's of course central to the Complex...that's why I'm on this list. :) I'm very interested in how my field (space physics) can reach out to more people and show them the beauty of what we study (the northern lights, the sun, the plasma within the magnetic influence of the Earth and Sun) through these kind of collaborations. For instance, one could do a similar (and potentially extraordinary) project using scientific video of the aurora. If anyone is interested in this idea, please feel free to contact me.

I am looking forward to this weekend's activities at the Complex even more now.

Thanks so much,

Liz MacDonald

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Victoria Hughes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Brilliant Noise

from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a plane as it crosses the path of the observatory...
"The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the Sun.
"By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena. Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking place...."

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Victoria Hughes

Re: yeow

So glad that this struck enough of a chord to have you participate, Liz, and welcome!

Glad you will be at the SysBios show.

....I remember seeing the aurora borealis from a plane once, on a trip across the north Atlantic- astonishing to look out the window around 3am and see that glowing green curtain rippling across the horizon at the same eye level as the plane (or seemed like). That would be beautiful in an immersive environment.

And then there was aurora viewing in Alaska, a community event: the word would go out when they'd be active, and we'd lie on the hoods of cars and watch and listen for hours as the colors, patterns, lines, all changed and rotated overhead. Surreal yet actual experience that more should be able to have.

Good to have you here to help out with that.

See you Saturday-

Tory

YouTube - Dancing Aurora - HD 720p This gets the idea across. In Alaska we never saw the giant Copyright mark though, fyi.

On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Elizabeth MacDonald wrote:

Wow. Thanks Victoria. I am a scientist who works in this field and works at LANL and a lurker to this email list. But I'm inspired to post by these beautiful images. They are familiar to me but the idea of using them to showcase the power of the creative transformation possible between science and art is really speaking to me. And it's of course central to the Complex...that's why I'm on this list. :) I'm very interested in how my field (space physics) can reach out to more people and show them the beauty of what we study (the northern lights, the sun, the plasma within the magnetic influence of the Earth and Sun) through these kind of collaborations. For instance, one could do a similar (and potentially extraordinary) project using scientific video of the aurora. If anyone is interested in this idea, please feel free to contact me.

I am looking forward to this weekend's activities at the Complex even more now.
Thanks so much,
Liz MacDonald

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Victoria Hughes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Brilliant Noise

from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural and man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting the CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one frame taken from a ground based observatory which shows the silhouette of a plane as it crosses the path of the observatory...
"The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by the Sun.
"By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena. Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking place...."

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