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- 1. The relations between Art and Science DomenicoVicinanza https://bubblechambermusic.com/home/ music/
- 2. Art and Science • Two universal languages • Traditionally science supports art and • Art inspires and supports Science Image credits:ec.europa.eu
- 3. Science and Music • Longstanding, close connection. • Music can be described in terms of physics – Notes are described by waveforms at a certain frequency – Tempo, rhythm, tones and overtones, harmonies and more can be explained in terms of physics. • We can discuss our physical world in terms of music. Image credits: sciencefiction.com
- 4. Ancient Greece • Mathematical underpinnings of music (Pythagoras) – Simple (rational) ratios of a given length produced harmonies. Image credits:greekmusicandmusicalinstruments.weebly.com
- 5. Ancient Greece • Musical underpinning to the known universe – Fundamental patterns in nature and global harmony – Music of the spheres – Planetary motions obeyed mathematical equations corresponding to musical notes – the whole solar system together played its own symphony. Image credits: HistoryForKids
- 8. Art for science • Art can surely be a foundation for Science • Beauty, harmony and symmetry – Scientific tools – Cosmology, Chemistry, Physics, … • Data visualization and representation
- 10. Particle Physics
- 11. Science for art • New tools • New materials • New way of accessing and creating art • New languages
- 12. Oil painting • Van Eyck’s (1390-1441): mixtures boiled in linseed oil until they reached a viscous state – Sun-thickened oils • Flemish school: improved formula – drying evenly without cracking • Leonardo daVinci later improved these technique – Slow-cooking the mixture – adding 5 to 10% beeswax
- 13. What was the first device able to transmit music across long distances ?
- 14. Elisha Gray: “MusicalTelegraph” 1876
- 15. …and the first device able to stream music on a network ?
- 17. The keyboards
- 18. Inside theTelharmonium All telharmonium pictures are from 120years.net
- 19. A descendent: the Hammond Cogwheel picture from www.soundonsound.com J. Smith picture from: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.ch/ Laurens Hammond using the same principle created the Hammond Organ in Chicago in 1935
- 20. “La Plissure du Texte”, by Roy Ascott - 1980 Musée d'Art Moderne de laVille Paris. - Interactive, remote, collaborative creation of a work of art - First example of “distributed authorship” of a “planetary fairytale” by collectively creating and sharing texts and ASCII-based images Credit: alien.mur.at
- 21. Each location was a character… Eleven locations in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, each representing a character (magician, princess, beast, etc.)
- 23. Science can create art • Nature around us is wonderful and rich • Science is a way to describe nature – Typically using mathematics as a language • Art can be just another language
- 24. Sonification • What: transforming information into audible signal • How: mapping data to notes or sounds • Why: to listen to its structure
- 25. Sonification
- 26. Data sonification • Sonification is the acoustic representation of data • Music (or sound) describes the data, for example: – Growing data rising melody – Decreasing data descending melody
- 27. Sonification: why? • Two main applications: – Scientific:To offer another perspective, another way to analyse the data – Artistic:The melody inherits the richness of the data and can inspire new ideas
- 28. The piano roll: drawing a score! Time
- 29. Linear data
- 30. Regular data Regular melody
- 32. The CERN announcement • On July 4th 2012, CERN announced to have identified a new boson which appeared to be compatible with the Higgs boson. Credits: ATLAS Experiment/ CERN Higgs boson signal
- 33. The Higgs Boson melody
- 34. The ATLAS data sonification
- 36. Voyager Spacecrafts Image credits: NASA http://www.nasa.gov
- 37. Voyager 1 and 2 Image credits: Univ Oreoon Twin spacecrafts launched in 1977 After 36 years, they continue exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Primary mission: exploration of Jupiter and Saturn.
- 38. First pictures of the outer planets! Voyager 1, Jupiter 1979 Voyager 1, Saturn 1980 Voyager 2, Neptune 1989 Voyager 2, Uranus 1986 Voyager 2, Neptune and Triton Image credits: NASA http://www.nasa.gov
- 39. Voyager 1 and 2 data (Cosmic rays) Image credits: JPL/NASA http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov
- 40. A spacecraft duet >21Billion Km Spacecraft duet Image credits: NASA http://www.nasa.gov
- 41. Voyager 1 Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Voyager 2 Voyager 2 Voyager 1
- 42. Voyager 1 and 2 duet as a piano trio
- 43. Seismogram sonification How to turn a volcano seismogram into music…
- 44. Seismogram
- 45. We start from an empty score
- 46. We superimpose the seismogram
- 47. We overlay the contour with notes
- 48. The result is a melody which follows exactly the behaviour of the volcano
- 49. Example: Mt Etna volcano sonification (Italy) Mt Etna Mt Etna seismogram
- 50. Mt Etna score
- 51. The Mountain Sonification of four volcanoes http://www.volcanodance.org JFK Center for PerformingArts –Washington (USA)
- 52. “The Mountain” a modern dance performance on volcano sonification
- 54. Guido d’Arezzo
- 55. Data Sonification: Creating a score from characters of a text A B C D E …
- 56. Text sonification aaaa bbbb cccc abcdefg • Melody generated by associating a note to each letter. • The pitch is chosen according to the position of the letter into the English alphabet a b c a b c g
- 57. Anagrams are particularly interesting Same letters organised in different ways same notes organised in different sequences • Word: “Endicott” • Anagrams (source: wordsmith.org): EdictTon Edict Not CitedTon Cited Not DocentTi ...
- 59. Let’s compare EdictTon and Edict Not, for example E d i c t t o n E d i c t n o t
- 60. CERN Convention Sonification EUYouth Orchestra Conducted byV. Ashkenazy
- 61. CERN Convention Sonification EUYouth Orchestra Conducted byV. Ashkenazy