Re: [microsound] Re: information reduction

[jayrope <jayrope@xxxxxx>]

brian: welcome.

jayrope

Brian Whitman wrote:

> Kim: definitely check out Pierce's "Symbols, Signals & Noise" for a
> user-level IT standpoint on all of this. While not precisely "information
> reduction", a large chunk of information theory deals with getting at the
> most information rich chunks out of a stream of media-- reduction then
> would be a recomposition of this stream. I'm not sure if you're at the
> actual sound level or working with notes, but either way: the process
> invovles finding the smallest chunks that have similar entropy and
> normalizing them. For sounds/digital audio, do some carefully planned
> filters-- for notes, you've got your work cut out for you: Leonard Meyer's
> "Music, the Arts and Ideas," and maybe Keykit to help you do the math :)
> It would be nice if I could point you to someone doing similar work...
> but... if you read the Pierce book you can get a taste of how annoyed
> these EE types are with IT being used for the arts, even back in the early
> 60s. I've only had time to do toy problems on a palm pilot with all this,
> but if you are interested with the concepts, do get in touch.
>
> my introduction: my name is brian, I do NLP work @ columbia currently.. I
> also make sounds as "blitter." pleased to meet you all.
>
> Brian Whitman
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>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I've been interested over the years in the reduction of information in
> > various media (sound, film/video, text) and stumbled across a company
> > called "SineWave Synthesis"
> > reducing the amount of information in sound and how that might be used in
> > constructing an axis of recognizability in my work...
>
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