Data noise #1
For this unit of data visualisation, we will be doing 3 projects. Beginning with Data Noise for the next four weeks, where will be either translating data into a form of sound or vice versa to produce an interactive or performative experience. During our session with Oliver, he had introduced to a few sound projects and below are two that really interested me. After having a look at these projects we modified sounds using Audacity.
– Electrical walks by Christina Kubisch
Kubisch began this project of project sound into installations in 2004 Cologne. Starting off with a simple map locating sounds of electromagnetic waves that users could go to and hear the sounds. Originally using telephone amplifiers to hear sounds of electromagnetic waves then with ‘headphones everywhere near any electrical or [electronic] device or installation, particularly in the cities, where there density is growing daily’.
– The city of broken windows by Hito Steyerl
The artist was working alongside an artificial intelligence company recording glass windows being broken. At first, I thought that they would gather a number of sounds recordings and spot the sound wave patterns which the machine would recognise it as the glass is broken but Oliver mentioned that there they could be recognising the sound of vibrations at the start when the glass starts to get broken and then the droplets of glass. Just like how machine learning for face recognition doesn’t recognise features of a face but the contrast on the face like the shadows in the eyes.
Reference:
Christina Kubisch(2013) Christina Kubisch – Electrical Walks. An introduction to Christina Kubisch’s “Electrical Walks” series of works. Available at: https://vimeo.com/54846163
Ralf Klingelhöfer (2019) Hito Steyerl: The Language of Broken Glass, Part of “Stop Making Sense”. Available at: https://www.hkw.de/en/app/mediathek/video/69577