This paper considers music performance in light of the possibly most radical move away from the Cartesian idea of the body as informed by the higher order rationality of the mind: this is a performance informed by Deleuze’s and Guattari’s body without organs. The paper examines the particular performance activities of ‘hardware hacker’ Nic Collins, of ‘live converter’ Kaffe Matthews as well as ...

Sonic maps are an increasingly popular form of exploring soundscapes, and are a possible means of communicating the experience of a soundwalk. We describe how a printed key influenced exploration of an interactive textile sonic map. We explain the technology behind the map, employing capacitive sensing and real-time audio processing. The sonic map contained 18 binaural recordings extracted from...

Synthesis algorithms often have a large number of adjustable parameters that determine the generated sound and its resultant psychoacoustic features. The relationship between parameters and timbre is important for end users, but it is generally unknown, complex, and difficult to analytically derive. In this paper we introduce a strategy for the analysis of the sonic response of synthesizers sub...

This paper will present a survey of electronic music and sonic art applications of Cellular Automata in the MIDI domain, and of the implications of that work for future developments. Algorithmic and computational processes have been of interest to artists in the audio domain for many years, creating an emerging culture of algorithmic generative electronic art. There have been several approaches...

Language is a tool for communication. This means that apart from being communication tool, it also channel formulating intentions, ideas, opinions, giving birth to feelings and making collaboration. Communication as an opening extend far beyond the domain of words. Illocutionary acts are actions difficult identify. Not only imparting knowledge someone, but doing something. Permissions, requests...

In the classic picture of morphogen-mediated patterning, cells acquire the correct spatial arrangement of specified fates by reading a precisely distributed gradient of morphogen. Xiong et al. now provide evidence for an alternate strategy-cells of the zebrafish neural tube actively sort to their correct positions following disordered specification by Sonic hedgehog.

Chromobacterium violaceum was subjected to sonic stimulation with 300 Hz sound, at five different levels of loudness in the range of 70 – 89.5 dB. Sonic stimulation was found to affect bacterial growth and quorum sensing regulated pigment (violacein) production significantly. Magnitude of this effect was found to be dependent on sound-level. The minimum critical difference required to cause any...

This workshop aims to introduce ICAD participants to the use of creative interaction design methods when exploring the design of sonic interactions with computational artefacts. Specifically, focus will be on physical interactions that rely on continuous sonic feedback. Participants will generate future scenarios and concepts for such interactions, and everyday sounding objects in context will ...

The pressure signals from a sonic boom will produce a small, but detectable, ground motion. The extensive seismic network in southern California, consisting of over 200 sites covering over 50000 square kilometers, is used to map primary and secondary sonic boom carpets. Data from the network is used to analyze three supersonic overflights in the western United States. The results are compared t...

Dipole sonic log data recorded in a vertical pilot well and the associated production well are analyzed over a 200 × 1100-ft section of a North American gas shale formation. The combination of these two wells enables angular sampling in the vertical direction and over a range of inclination angles from 54° to 90°. Dipole sonic logs from these wells show that the formation’s average properties a...