Re: [microsound] how to use raw data? (science related crapola)

[Brian Klein <btk3782@xxxxxxxxx>]

has anyone used National Instruments' Labview program
and interface for music-related purposes?
it is normally used for scientific/engineering
purposes, but one can easily see the possibilities of
adapting it to operate midi equipment or generating
tones. unfortunately, i don't have the link for the
national instruments website right now. otherwise i'd
share it.

--- derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> D Sutorus wrote:
> 
> > i've heard about using "raw data" or "pure data"
> to generate really interesting sounds. 
> > can anyone here tell me how i would go about doing
> this? please give me specifics if possible.
> > i'm pretty computer-literate, and i've done some
> very basic C++ and assembly language programming--so
> don't be afraid to be "too technical". thanks.
> 
> I think I got a handle on what you mean, and it has
> nothing specific to 
> do with the application Pure Data. What you are
> talking about is the 
> sonification of data streams. I have seen a lot of
> interesting work done 
> with this.
> 
> For example, during the Acoustic.Space.Lab projects,
> we gathered data on 
> the Sun and Jupiter with a 32m radiotelescope. This
> data can be rendered 
> on a 2D plane into a kind of "planetary map", but
> that is just one kind 
> of visualization approach. The data itself was
> gathered by leaving the 
> dish stationary and allowing the chosen celestial
> body to pass accross 
> it, and then measuring the dish's radio
> "temperature". So the actual 
> data, before being parsed into an XY grid of a map,
> is actually a 
> sequential collumn of four sets of numbers: azimuth
> [0-360 degrees], 
> elevation [0-90 degrees], universal time code
> [0:00.00-23:59.59 GMT] and 
> dish temperature [can't remember the scale! ;-) ].


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