Alexander Chen’s “Baroque.me”

I really enjoy this visual accompanying the music, and how the strings lengths’ change. With the number of strings and their lengths displayed, Alexander Chen has captured a form of sound visualization that is much more informative and instructive to the actual structure of the music than most others. It allows me (who is unfamiliar with Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1) a bit of understanding into how the piece is written, and even how to play it. I wish the program could make a similar visualization for other pieces of music if it it given in a certain format, the possibilities would be endless.

“The Space Beyond Me” by Julius von Bismarck

I can’t help but compare Bismarck’s work to some sort of panoramic photo printer. The big plus is that its not from something that’s originally one large/extended image, it’s from film, but is so useful! One is able to take any old 16mm film and create one still, extended image that would never be able to be viewed in that way otherwise, and it produces this result physically. I’m incredibly interested in the variety of materials and resources used for this project: the phosphorescent paint, arduino, projector, and everything else. Very impressive.

“Glitch Reality II”  by Plummer-Fernandez, David Gardener

I feel like the process (or making use of 3D scanning and printing processes) is more important than the physical result of this piece by David Gardener. Regardless, i do enjoy the aesthetic of the pixelated/triangle-formed version of the original tea set. I wonder if Gardener purposely chose non-high quality scanning/printing quality machines or settings just to draw out or emphasize the effect of glitching/imperfect that he was trying to portray. The images of the 3D models on the software after scanning are also really beautiful; I think these illustrate the imperfections of the scan much more than the final prints, as the prints are made after some corrections are made.