Re: [microsound] database

[Kenric McDowell <kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip,
Have you read Lev Manovich's "The Language of New Media"? It's not as 
common as it should be in music circles. There's some great stuff in 
there about database vs. narrative logic. Are you interested in net.art 
sound projects that use databases?
There are a few locked groove records out there that might qualify... 
I'll try to think of them...
My release in Fallt's invalidObject series was a database like set of 
groups/modules that I pulled out of a single track and intended for 
others to use.
Jef Cantu and I are working on a release for this label called skylab 
operations that is 52 one minute segments of audio, composed one per 
week for a year. Just finished the first one, actually.
Another thing to consider would be granular synthesis (wherein tiny 
segments of an audio buffer are accessed out of order, much like data in 
a database). It's really common in glitch/microsound.
Anyway, any time you want to commiserate over beer about corporate life 
let me know!


-km

On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 04:09 PM, Philip Sherburne wrote:

> I'm doing some research into database-based musics, and I'm looking for
> examples of recordings/compositions/programs in which database 
> structure is
> integral to the work... or in another way of putting it, work that is 
> made
> as an interpretation of various bits of data (sound bites, film clips,
> statistics, etc.), but which may also be database-like in structure.
>
> I'm thinking of the UBSB Traceroute mini-LP on Ash (as a data-intensive
> work) or, closer to the idea, a programmer who presented a database of
> phonetics, sampled out of continual speech and sorted according to 
> pitch &
> timbre, at Activating the Medium this past year...
>
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated! Feel like I'm flying blind here.
>
> Thanks,
> Philip
>
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