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===Audio sculpture=== | ===Audio sculpture=== | ||
If you have a visual environment whose contents can translate directly into the audio domain in some way, this is one way of doing audio sculpture. Unlike the quantized grids of piano rolls, there usually | If you have a visual environment whose contents can translate directly into the audio domain in some way, this is one way of doing audio sculpture. Unlike the quantized grids of piano rolls, there usually is no grid (or the grid is so fine as to be invisible). Iannis Xenakis developed an interface called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPIC|UPIC]], which recently inspired the program [[http://www.highc.org|HighC]]. In three-dimensional space, [[http://audiosculptures.com/|Andy Fillebrown]] has done some work, as well as...well, gosh, he's surely not the only one! | ||
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===The rulers metaphor for microtonality=== | ===The rulers metaphor for microtonality=== | ||
Imagine a ruler with 12 inches on it. Now imagine one where, in the space of 12 inches, 13 equally spaced lines are drawn. Although these new lines are each only a little less than an inch apart from each other, they are clearly not "inches" and it would be silly to use them as such. If you used these 13ths of a foot to measure and estimate lengths frequently, you would soon find yourself rounding to this new set of lengths which before you would have rounded to inches. You might soon find yourself rounding something exactly | Imagine a ruler with 12 inches on it. Now imagine one where, in the space of 12 inches, 13 equally spaced lines are drawn. Although these new lines are each only a little less than an inch apart from each other, they are clearly not "inches" and it would be silly to use them as such. If you used these 13ths of a foot to measure and estimate lengths frequently, you would soon find yourself rounding to this new set of lengths which before you would have rounded to inches. You might soon find yourself rounding something exactly inches long to either 6 or 7 of these. My, what a crazy you must be! | ||
===The colors metaphor for microtonality=== | ===The colors metaphor for microtonality=== | ||
Imagine you're a painter. All your life, you have been told that there are only //n// 'real' colors, that any shade between two of the colors is just | Imagine you're a painter. All your life, you have been told that there are only //n// 'real' colors, that any shade between two of the colors is just a to-some-degree-out-of-tune version of each of these colors... | ||
===Equal divisions burst=== | ===Equal divisions burst=== | ||
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If you have a visual environment whose contents can translate directly into the audio domain in some way, this is one way of doing audio sculpture. Unlike the quantized grids of piano rolls, there usually | If you have a visual environment whose contents can translate directly into the audio domain in some way, this is one way of doing audio sculpture. Unlike the quantized grids of piano rolls, there usually is no grid (or the grid is so fine as to be invisible). Iannis Xenakis developed an interface called <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPIC" rel="nofollow">UPIC</a>, which recently inspired the program <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.highc.org" rel="nofollow">HighC</a>. In three-dimensional space, <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://audiosculptures.com/" rel="nofollow">Andy Fillebrown</a> has done some work, as well as...well, gosh, he's surely not the only one!<br /> | ||
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Imagine a ruler with 12 inches on it. Now imagine one where, in the space of 12 inches, 13 equally spaced lines are drawn. Although these new lines are each only a little less than an inch apart from each other, they are clearly not &quot;inches&quot; and it would be silly to use them as such. If you used these 13ths of a foot to measure and estimate lengths frequently, you would soon find yourself rounding to this new set of lengths which before you would have rounded to inches. You might soon find yourself rounding something exactly | Imagine a ruler with 12 inches on it. Now imagine one where, in the space of 12 inches, 13 equally spaced lines are drawn. Although these new lines are each only a little less than an inch apart from each other, they are clearly not &quot;inches&quot; and it would be silly to use them as such. If you used these 13ths of a foot to measure and estimate lengths frequently, you would soon find yourself rounding to this new set of lengths which before you would have rounded to inches. You might soon find yourself rounding something exactly inches long to either 6 or 7 of these. My, what a crazy you must be!<br /> | ||
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Imagine you're a painter. All your life, you have been told that there are only <em>n</em> 'real' colors, that any shade between two of the colors is just | Imagine you're a painter. All your life, you have been told that there are only <em>n</em> 'real' colors, that any shade between two of the colors is just a to-some-degree-out-of-tune version of each of these colors...<br /> | ||
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