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-The Autonomous Archive was a collaborative project with Giulia de Giovanelli and Franc Gonzalez. Its goal was to build a local “archival-machine” for the historical living-community Vereniging Poortgebouw, based in Rotterdam. By converting the already extensive paper archive onto a digital system, we aimed to encourage further collaborative collection of materials to maps the legality of the Poortgebouw past, present and future.
+The Autonomous Archive was a collaborative project with Giulia de Giovanelli and Franc Gonzalez. Its goal was to build a local “archival-machine” for the historical living-community Vereniging Poortgebouw, based in Rotterdam. By converting + the already extensive paper archive onto a digital system, we aimed to encourage further collaborative collection of materials to maps the legality of the Poortgebouw past, present and future.
-The Autonomous Archive is built upon open source software and designed in a way to allow people to interact with the archive and re-activate the documents held within it. It is designed to allow for new interactions and understandings of the archival material, and to develop further outputs.
+The Autonomous Archive is built upon open source software and designed in a way to allow people to interact with the archive and re-activate the documents held within it. It is designed to allow for new interactions and understandings of + the archival material, and to develop further outputs.
-The final form of this project manifested in a custom built server using parts sourced from within the community, custom build software to add to the archive, as well as a possible example of the how to re-activate its contents. The server is a Linux system running Debian which hosts a Mediawiki which serves as an interface to the documents in the archive only accessible within the Poortgebouw. Documents are entered into the archive through a command line interface on the server itself, which asks the archivist questions about the document being added, such as categoies, themes, players involved, and the date. The Autonomous Archive then scans the document, and through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) translates the grpahic into editable text, translates it from dutch to english and uploads it onto the wiki in its various new formats.
+The final form of this project manifested in a custom built server using parts sourced from within the community, custom build software to add to the archive, as well as a possible example of the how to re-activate its contents. The server + is a Linux system running Debian which hosts a Mediawiki which serves as an interface to the documents in the archive only accessible within the Poortgebouw. Documents are entered into the archive through a command line interface on the + server itself, which asks the archivist questions about the document being added, such as categoies, themes, players involved, and the date. The Autonomous Archive then scans the document, and through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) + translates the grpahic into editable text, translates it from dutch to english and uploads it onto the wiki in its various new formats.
-As an example of a possible re-activation of the archive, we also developed a way to print a booklet which includes all the content of the wiki. As the Autonomous Archive is only accessible from within the living community, this generated document acted as a way we were able to distribute our ideologies and methodologies employed within the creation and application of the Autonomous Archive.
+As an example of a possible re-activation of the archive, we also developed a way to print a booklet which includes all the content of the wiki. As the Autonomous Archive is only accessible from within the living community, this generated + document acted as a way we were able to distribute our ideologies and methodologies employed within the creation and application of the Autonomous Archive.
-This project is still alive today, and has since manifested in a Master's project within the Experimental Publishing pathway at the Piet Zwart institute in their 4th Special Issue, and presented again within the Temporary Autonomous Bureau in 2018 at TENT gallery in Rotterdam.
+This project is still alive today, and has since manifested in a Master's project within the Experimental Publishing pathway at the Piet Zwart institute in their 4th Special Issue, and presented again within the Temporary Autonomous Bureau + in 2018 at TENT gallery in Rotterdam.
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+Adelaïde
-Adelaïde is a reactive music video developed in Processing in 24hrs. It was part of a 24 hour music video challenge in collaboration with Le Gaité Lyrique, and french band Requin Chagrin.
+Adelaïde is a reactive music video developed in Processing in 24hrs. It was part of a 24 hour music video challenge in collaboration with Le Gaité Lyrique, and french band Requin Chagrin.
-The work was done in collaboration with Sanet Stegmann. The visual style was inspired by the Memphis group of artists and designers from the 1960s. All the forms and patterns were generated in processing and were designed to be animated for the video as well as printed.
+The work was done in collaboration with Sanet Stegmann. The visual style was inspired by the Memphis group of artists and designers from the 1960s. All the forms and patterns were generated in processing and were designed to be animated + for the video as well as printed.
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-My solo practice embraces the unstable nature of improvisation in software and in music. I aim to examine the agency that improvisation can provide in the context of creative software and performance. I build custom software that acts both as an instrument and collaborator which I perform alongside with a combination of digital hardware and traditional musical instruments. Through the employment of these tools I challenge my ingrained jazz improvisational training, and examine creative relationships we can have with machines.
+My solo practice embraces the unstable nature of improvisation in software and in music. I aim to examine the agency that improvisation can provide in the context of creative software and performance. I build custom software that acts both + as an instrument and collaborator which I perform alongside with a combination of digital hardware and traditional musical instruments. Through the employment of these tools I challenge my ingrained jazz improvisational training, and + examine creative relationships we can have with machines.
- + -My improvisations to date have included hacking MIDI controllers and playing with audio analysis. Such approaches deconstruct my traditional musical training on the saxophone as I find myself attempting to embody routines as defined by software. It is either the programming of my years of formal music training, or a conceived imposition by the "perfection" of technology that makes me question my agency, and even my role as an interactor.
+My improvisations to date have included hacking MIDI controllers and playing with audio analysis. Such approaches deconstruct my traditional musical training on the saxophone as I find myself attempting to embody routines as defined by + software. It is either the programming of my years of formal music training, or a conceived imposition by the "perfection" of technology that makes me question my agency, and even my role as an interactor.
-My performance practice is coupled with research that takes many other forms, where I engage in discussion around agencies a wider adoption of improvisation could provide. Building these instruments is an extension of my improvisational method, which acts as a form of liberation against the standardisation of both musical practices and software development. By employing improvisation towards the development of my tools, I expose the agencies that it might afford us in realms outside of creative practices, and how they might be used to combat outdated structures of hierarchy and value.
+My performance practice is coupled with research that takes many other forms, where I engage in discussion around agencies a wider adoption of improvisation could provide. Building these instruments is an extension of my improvisational + method, which acts as a form of liberation against the standardisation of both musical practices and software development. By employing improvisation towards the development of my tools, I expose the agencies that it might afford us in + realms outside of creative practices, and how they might be used to combat outdated structures of hierarchy and value.
-All of the code is freely accessible on my git repository here : git.suroh.tk.
+All of the code is freely accessible on my git repository here : git.suroh.tk.
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+ Read My Lips : No New Taxes
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- Performance by Amy Pickles with Djuna Couvee, Marta la Torre Rubio and Ana Buljan. +
- Live Sound by Max Franklin. +
- Translation by Sanne Cobussen. +
ead my lips: No New Taxes. is a performed sound work where the physical structure of Gallery Lecq becomes speaker and aural / oral cavity for the surrounding architecture. The ear / mouth questions the setting of its body, where internal movement is controlled by transaction. The sluice commands passage of the waterway, as the bridge controls movement on land. This system is overlooked by the imposing architecture of Rotterdam’s former Tax Office, where personal financial dealings with the municipality allowed bodies to move in the city.
+ +The title refers to a statement by George W. Bush in his 1988 election nomination. Though it struck public conscious and helped him win the campaign, these words are now said to have hurt Bush politically, living on as a broken promise.
+ +A speaker is an electro-acoustic device and a person who delivers a speech. Here we experiment with distributed sounds to pledge a new narrative.
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POST TOAST
+POST TOAST
- + -Post Toast is an electronic duo currently playing a live meld of hypnotic improvised electronica, techno, hip-hop neo-classical music and down-tempo dystopian futurism. Meeting during our Master's studies Ryan Cherewaty and I found intersecting interests in musical tastes and instrumentation and decided to join forces in our living room.
+Post Toast is an electronic duo currently playing a live meld of hypnotic improvised electronica, techno, hip-hop neo-classical music and down-tempo dystopian futurism. Meeting during our Master's studies Ryan Cherewaty and I found + intersecting interests in musical tastes and instrumentation and decided to join forces in our living room.
-This side project extends my methodology of improvisation in and with software, forcing me further to break from my musical academic training and aesthetics. Post Toast is a moment where I experiment with my ideologies outside of an art music/performance realm. It has since developed from a casual hobby to a formative part of my improvised, software performance practice.
+This side project extends my methodology of improvisation in and with software, forcing me further to break from my musical academic training and aesthetics. Post Toast is a moment where I experiment with my ideologies outside of an art + music/performance realm. It has since developed from a casual hobby to a formative part of my improvised, software performance practice.
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Experimenting in the realms of design, art, the web, interfaces, music and sound, with undergraduate and master's level students. Some links of our research and work can be found below.
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- are.a : PCA Generative _____ (2019)
- are.na : PCA UX Design (2019)
- glitch : PCA Generative _____ (2019)
- glitch : PCA UX Class (2019) diff --git a/js/audio.js b/js/audio.js index 36deba1..3603521 100644 --- a/js/audio.js +++ b/js/audio.js @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ // audio for events // AUDIO SETUP -const audioEngine = new(window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)() +const audioEngine = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)() const masterGain = audioEngine.createGain() window.onload = function() { diff --git a/js/interaction.js b/js/interaction.js index 49bb3a3..c262e2c 100644 --- a/js/interaction.js +++ b/js/interaction.js @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ const menuItem = document.querySelector('#menuItem') // TODO: (create voice class per button) let menuVoices = [] +let activePage const subContent = (active) => { let parent = document.querySelector(`\#${active}`) @@ -18,23 +19,23 @@ const subContent = (active) => { const subMenuListeners = (active) => { let sc = subContent(active) if (sc.menu) { - console.log(`You are on ${active} w\/ a menu`) + // console.log(`You are on ${active} w\/ a menu`) for (let s of sc.menu.children) { - console.log(s) + // console.log(s) s.addEventListener('click', () => { showContent(s.dataset.link, sc.parent) }) } } else { - console.log(`${active} has no menu`) + // console.log(`${active} has no menu`) } } const showContent = (section, parent = false) => { - console.log(`section: ${section}\nparent: ${parent ? true : false}`) + // console.log(`section: ${section}\nparent: ${parent ? true : false}`) let query if (parent) { - console.log(parent) + // console.log(parent) query = parent.querySelectorAll('.content') className = `content page` } else { @@ -42,20 +43,20 @@ const showContent = (section, parent = false) => { className = `content` } - console.log(query) + // console.log(query) for (let q of query) { if (q.id == section) { - console.log(`active id : ${section}`) + // console.log(`active id : ${section}`) subQ = q q.className = `${className} visible` } else { - console.log('hiding divs') + // console.log('hiding divs') q.className = `${className}` } } - console.log(content) + // console.log(content) } const findContent = (domElement, id) => { @@ -95,7 +96,11 @@ for (let c of primaryNav.children) { }) c.addEventListener('mouseenter', () => { - menuItem.innerHTML = c.dataset.link + if (c.dataset.link == '~') { + menuItem.textContent = '\u003C\u007E' + } else { + menuItem.textContent = c.dataset.link + } menuItem.className = 'active' menuVoices[c.dataset.link].noteOn() }) @@ -115,10 +120,10 @@ for (let c of primaryNav.children) { // --> SECONDARY NAVIGATION // if (activePage) { - console.log(activePage) + // console.log(activePage) for (let s of subContent(activePage).menu.children) { s.addEventListener('click', () => { - console.log(`sub menu click \: ${s.dataset.link}`) + // console.log(`sub menu click \: ${s.dataset.link}`) }) } }