music

Three recent posts:

Here is the link to my recent post on the Technology-Supported Human-World Interaction Blog:

Urban Screens, Urban Interfaces, Digital Media, and the Arts in Social-Public Spaces

In this post, I review several articles from a special issue of First Monday on the topic of urban screens, and also provide a list references and links.

How does learning art, music, or dance impact our cognitive abilities?  

Here is a reposting from my TechPsych blog:

Seth Sandler is a university student who is finishing up his bachelor degree in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts, with an emphasis on Music, at the University of California, San Diego. His research and development work centers around multi-touch, multi-user musical interfaces. Seth Sandler is a member of the NUI Group, also known as the Natural User Interface Group.

Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky and one of my favorite multimedia creators, is currently in Antarctica working on a new project. Details within. He will be in the Triangle in February, at UNC on 8 Feb and Duke on 9 Feb.

Some preliminary and radical ideas for an upcoming sabbatical to study new media, social networks, knowledge community formation, and collaborative project-based learning

The Chain-Tape Collective, an Internet-based collaborative music association, has completed a new album-length project of music inspired by spam email and made the collection available for free download under a Creative Commons license.

I am performing this coming week in Carrboro using an artificially-induced synesthesia process I call audible vision, processing image files of an art exhibit's pictures as though the images were audio and performing live improvisational looping music using the images as the source of the sound.

Innerspace and Interface: Affect and representation are crucial to digital history, music, and dance.

Ben Crawford's exploring the edge of music and computers, and his background readings gave us a preliminary exploration of this emerging field. Perhaps the importance of music is best understood in relation to Andy Clark's the extended mind thesis. Normally, one can quite easily think of extending one's intellectual abilities out into the world, such as how everything from pencils and books to computer workstations extend our memory. Art, and in particular, music seems to allow us to extend our emotions into the world around us, allowing us to experience collective emotions?