Grains of Sound: Visual and Sonic Textures in Sand or Peter and the Wolf

There is a tendency in animation studies to discuss sound in the language of images, stressing sound’s alignment with visual cues (as in mickey mousing and leitmotifs). But sounds do not only mimic images: they add textures and emotions that change what we see. This article explores grain (texture) and timbre (tone color produced by specific instruments and techniques) as qualities shared by visual and sonic material. To do so, the author closely reads Sand or Peter and the Wolf (1969), where Caroline Leaf’s haptic sand animation is matched by Michael Riesman’s electroacoustic score. Leaf painstakingly molds animals by scraping away individual sand grains, and Riesman sculpts sonic textures with tiny adjustments to knobs and touch-sensitive pads on the Buchla modular synthesizer. Their collective improvisation with sands and sounds reveals new ways to think about artists’ material practices and the friction and interplay between images and sounds. They encourage spectators to perceive the animals as not merely plasmatic, or Sergei Eisenstein’s notion of contour-bending character animation. Instead, Leaf and Riesman deploy what the author calls ‘granular modulation’, expressing sand and animals with sensuous materiality. In Leaf’s and Riesman’s improvisations, grainy textures are the seeds of understanding how sound and vision become symbiotic – and encounter friction – in animation.

An open-source synesthesia consistency test for use on the Qualtrics platform.

Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which healthy individuals experience additional, automatic, and consistent perceptions unrelated to veridical sensory input. For most of the most common forms of synesthesia, the additional sensation is a color: grapheme-color synesthetes experience specific letters of the alphabet as having specific colors, tone-color synesthetes experience specific sounds as having specific colors, etc. The “gold standard” method to diagnose X-to-color synesthesia is to measure test-retest consistency: synesthetes use a colorpicker to choose the color they experience for a particular stimulus, and then are retested minutes, months, or even years later; genuine synesthetes experience highly consistent associations across time. There is not currently an open source tool to collect color associations from synesthetes. In addition to presenting a technical barrier for entry into synesthesia research, the lack of an open source standard has also led to a proliferation of (slightly) different choices in methodology from lab to lab. In the present work, I use colorpicker experiements in synesthetes and controls to demonstrate that even small methodological details in test-retest experiments can profoundly influence the resulting data. I use this data to generate an online color picker with ideal experimental properties. The colorpicker is open source (available on a Github respository) and can be implemented by anyone with an account on the Qualtrics platform, one of the most common online experimental platforms in the world.

COMPUTATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF TIMBRE FOR RANKING OF TONE COLOR

The article describes a new computational approach for timbre classification for ranking tone color based on weighted feature extraction enabling a meaningful quantitative granular timbral description. Using a quantitative approach for algorithm development paired with a normative survey and data-driven testing, the authors find the proposed method to be a highly viable approach for computational timbre classification. As an example, we illustrate the proposed method against results from a conducted perceptual experiment. Our approach allows for improved accuracy for timbral description using numerical representations. Our research results supplement and improve the existing practice of using semantic descriptors for timbral description and can be used as an assistive tool in digital music production practices. This study aims to introduce a computational approach for timbre classification, enabling granularity in the timbral description. Our study suggests the possibility of timbral classification by numerical representation as a novel method for a more accurate mode of description for timbre.

A Study on Deep Learning Methods for Skin Disease Classification

Dermatological disorders are one among the foremost widespread diseases within the world. Despite being common its diagnosis is extremely difficult due to its complexities of skin tone, color, presence of hair. This paper provides an approach to use various computer vision-based techniques (deep learning) to automatically predict the varied sorts of skin diseases. The system makes use of deep learning technology to coach itself with the varied skin images. the most objective of this technique is to realize maximum accuracy of disease of the skin prediction. The people health quite the other diseases. Skin diseases are mostly caused by mycosis, bacteria, allergy, or viruses, etc. The lasers advancement and Photonics based medical technology is employed in diagnosis of the skin diseases quickly and accurately. The medical equipment for such diagnosis is restricted and costliest. So, Deep learning techniques helps in detection of disease of the skin at an initial stage. The feature extraction plays a key role in classification of skin diseases. The usage of Deep Learning algorithms has reduced the necessity for human labor, like manual feature extraction and data reconstruction for classification purpose.

Scriabin’s Synesthesia, Demystified

This article examines the latest materials related to Scriabin’s synesthesia, that is, his associations between sounds (tonal areas) and colors. This is often referred to as color-hearing, sound-color and tone-color associations in the literature. Scriabin’s biographer Leonid Sabaneyev was the first to discuss the matter, in his publication “O zvuko-tsvetovom sootvetstvii” [On sound-color correlation] (1911, Moscow). Since then, other more reliable sources have emerged, including Scriabin’s own color indications penned directly on the score of his Prometheus Op. 60, housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and not widely-accessible. This article also attempts to debunk some of the myths related to Scriabin’s sound-color associations and presents the emerging scholarly perspective on the subject.

Sonorism

In this chapter, the use by twentieth-century composers of tone color, or timbre is explained with examples by those who made its use central to their compositional output. Poland, freed from the bonds of communism and the Soviet state, relaxed controls over the arts and in 1956 initiated the Warsaw Autumn festival where avant-garde Polish and Western music could be heard. Kazimierz Serocki cofounded the festival, contributing to the percussion canon his timbre-based sextet, Continuum. In the United States, the American composer George Crumb definitely had an ear for timbre coupled with a love for percussion evident in the works discussed. A young Polish/American composer, Marta Ptaszynska, created a number of works for both solo and ensemble percussion in the latter half of the century. Her work Siderals was conceived as an audio-visual, or mixed-media work utilizing ten percussionists, magnetic tape playback, and lighting. The three composers highlighted in this chapter approached the use of timbre in differing ways.

Fasilitas Penyegaran Mental

Millennials are facing many challenges in this era. Of course, the growth spurt of technology and business brings positive changes but also negatives for physical and mental. One of the negative sides is the higher rate of stress that causes people to demand a refreshment facility, where the word ‘refreshment’ itself means to give energy physicallly and mentally. Seeing from the programs needed and the project location, produce a building design that adapt tropical style and post-modern architecture without leaving the traditional value. With highly slanted roof and having many skylights protruding the tropical style of the building. The façade uses basic materials like woods, concrete, and glass with warm tone color. Type and behavior also take important roles by co-influencing each other. Type itself is a concept that occurs in typology which determines whether the new typology will be the same as it is before or will it be a new form of typology that start a breakthrough. Instead, this project must use pattern language method of design which makes complicated design more simplified, and in the end produces a final design that answers the Milenial problems. AbstrakGenerasi milenial menghadapi banyak tantangan zaman. Tentu saja kemajuan teknologi dan bisnis dengan pesat membawa dampak positif namun juga dampak negatif bagi fisik dan mental. Dampak negatif mental yang terjadi adalah kecenderungan stress yang tinggi sehingga diperlukan sebuah fasilitas penyegaran, dimana arti kata ‘penyegaran’ sendiri adalah memberikan energi bagi fisik dan mental. Sehingga melihat dari kebutuhan program dan lokasi proyek, menghasilkan sebuah bangunan yang bergaya tropis dan berasitektur post-modern namun tidak meninggalkan cirikhas tradisional. Dengan atap yang juga berkemiringan curam dan memiliki banyak skylight menonjolkan cirikhas tropis dari bangunan. Fasad bangunan juga banyak mengandalkan material-material dasar kayu, beton dan kaca dengan warna-warna bernuansa hangat. Tipe dan perilaku juga berperan penting dengan cara saling mempengaruhi. Tipe sendiri merupakan sebuah konsep yang kemudian ada pada tipologi yaitu apakah tipologi bangunan yang akan terbentuk akan sama dengan sebelum-sebelumnya atau malah akan terbentuk tipologi baru yang akan membuat sebuah terobosan. Selain itu, proyek ini juga harus menggunakan metode penelitian pattern language yang dapat mempermudah proses desain yang rumit sehingga menghasilkan program ruang yang beragam.