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A literary journey through the New York Public Library that exposes its collections, treasures, and hidden sonic character.
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Who?
- Carlin M. Wragg is a writer and experience designer with expertise in content development, storytelling, and social media. As a Master’s candidate in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and Editor of Open Loop Press, she explores how interaction design, transmedia, and social networks create new ways to experience literature and support the next generation of storytellers. Carlin holds a B.A. with concentrations in Literature and Philosophy from Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing has been featured in Open City’s “Debut Writers” reading series at the KGB Bar in Manhattan, and Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.Chris Carlson is a second-year Master's student at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He is focused on the development of unique tools for generating, processing, and interacting with sound. Chris’s recent work at CCRMA includes the Sound Flinger, a multi-channel, haptic feedback instrument that allows users to touch and physically throw loops of audio around a room; PCO, an interactive sound and light installation based on the behavior of synchronous fireflies; and RE_, a ten minute score produced in collaboration with students from the Stanford Dance Department. More information about these and other works can be found at www.modulationindex.com.Kevin Bleich is a musician and creative technologist who specializes in 3D sensing and visualization. Originally from Tacoma, Washington, he now lives in New York City where he attends New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the Tisch School of the Arts.
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What?
- Volumes of Voices is a literary journey through the New York Public Library that exposes the library’s collections, treasures, and hidden sonic character.This site-specific soundwalk and companion exhibition are proposed for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, but content can be customized for libraries and museums across the country to surface holdings in their own collections.
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Where?
- 461 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
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When?
- Volumes of Voices is currently in development. If you'd like to join our private alpha, please contact Carlin M. Wragg at carlin[dot]wragg@nyu[dot]edu.
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Why?
- Long a refuge for the seeker and the scholar, the library is a symbol of the past, the present, and the future of learning. On this, the 100th birthday of one of New York’s iconic public spaces, Volumes of Voices takes visitors on an immersive literary journey that exposes the library’s collections, treasures, and hidden sonic character as it catalyzes a refreshed partnership between the library and the lifelong learners it serves.
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Posts
- Feb 05, 12ITP Winter Show 2011 December 18 & 19, 2011 Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Listeners wander through our 9′ x 9′ space with a pair of headphones. Transient fragments of voices, papers rustling, poetry, and music emerge and evaporate as a result of the listener’s …
- Dec 15, 11Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich For our final Cabinets of Wonder assignment, we were asked to prepare a concept proposal for a new museum or exhibition and present this as a printed case statement like the kind made by …
- Dec 06, 11Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Chris and I have been meeting weekly via Skype since early October to develop a comprehensive design direction document for our eleven soundwalk movements. In November, we invited Kevin Bleich to join the project …
- Nov 07, 11Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Because we would like the Volumes of Voices installation experience to be wires-free, we’ve decided to work with the Kinect sensor. To find out whether the Kinect can do what we imagine, Kevin and …
- Oct 08, 11Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson NOTE: This project extends a concept developed at ITP during the 2011 spring semester in Daniel Perlin’s course, Sound and the City. Concept Volumes of Voices takes listeners on an immersive, musical journey through the New …
- May 27, 11Volumes of Voices, performed live by Christopher Carlson at the CCRMA Spring Concert, May 26, 2011. Chris writes: This piece is derived from a collaboration with Carlin Wragg, a student at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, and the New York Public Library. Together, we have …
- May 05, 11Write Once, Access Anywhere Professor Corey Menscher Assignment Build a mobile application using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. Homepage player demo. ~ Wireframes presented May 5, 2011 at ITP
- Apr 16, 11Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin I began this week to work with my collaborator, composer Christopher Carlson, a graduate student at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, to develop the soundwalk’s first layer, a narrative tour …
- Apr 06, 11Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit Concept I began with a simple concept: collaborate with friends to create an audio-based exquisite corpse, a kind of found poem, using our favorite quotes. Assigned to respond to Joshua Harris’ work, and to other network-mediated collaborative storytelling projects, by …
- Apr 05, 11Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Script ~ Volumes of Voices ~ Narrative Tour This script of the narrative portion of the Volumes of Voices audio tour offers a first look at the narrator’s voice, and outlines sites the visitor will see as he …
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Posts
GRID ~ Built with Processing and OpenFrameworks, lets you “control a multi-touch sound visualization with your iPhone or iPad”.
Stephen Cornford - Binatone Galaxy
An installation for used cassette players which looks on their obsolescence not as an ending, but as an opportunity to reconsider their functional potential. Superseded as playback devices, they become instruments in their own right. Replacing the prerecorded content of each tape with a microphone gives us the chance to listen instead to the rhythmic and resonant properties of these once ubiquitous plastic shells. Binatone Galaxy brings the framework within which a generation purchased their favourite records to the centre of attention, revealing the acoustics of the cassette and the voices of the machines themselves.
ATOM - Robert Henke and Christopher Bauder
A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule.
Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, composed of physical objects, patterns of light, and synchronous rhythmic and textural sonic events. Change, sound, and movement converge into a larger form.
The height of each helium balloon is adjusted with a computer-controlled cable winch, whilst the internal illumination is accomplished using dimmable super-bright LEDs, creating a pixel in a warped 8x8 spatial matrix.
The sonic events, the patterns of light, and the movement of the balloons are manipulated in real time as a 45-60 minute-long performance.
More info here: http://monolake.de/concerts/atom.html
Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa’s Earworms project. I did the max/msp programming for the sequencing and playback of the audio files in their latest version. They originally used synced DVD players.
More info:
http://www.deborahaschheim.com/projects/on-memory/earwormsRecording of Bruce Neuman’s “Days” at MoMA. Caption reads: “Bruce Nauman. Days (installation view). 2009. One audio source consisting of seven stereo audio files, fourteen speakers, two amplifiers, and additional equipment.”
Exhibition description of installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Early work by Stephen Vitiello - low frequencies cause the speakers to flip and convulse.
A great article by Hans Tutschku regarding performance/live sound diffusion with loudspeaker orchestras.
A brief wikipedia article about the Acousmonium, an early loudspeaker orchestra.
Carlito Carvalhosa discusses his environmental sound installation at MoMA, “Sum of Days”. Select “Videos” from the menu tab on the left.
