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//Web// Bicycle built for two thousand

Bicycle Built for Two Thousand is an interesting project by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey. Using Amazon Mechanical Turk, they gather the sounds from a pool of 2000 people to recreate the song Daisy Bell. What’s particularly interesting about this project is that Daisy Bell was the first example of musical speech synthesis, and here they do the opposite by recreating the song with real voices. The project gives participants a single note and moment from the song for them to repeat. The people participating had no idea what the context was, the only thing they knew was the sound they needed to repeat.

//Physical// Tele-Present Water

Tele-Present Water visualizes the movement and intensity of the ocean in a remote location. This kinetic installation uses a grid structure with motors and drivers to create the simulation. It was built using Max/MSP and Arduino, using real-time data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It’s really interesting what they did as they transpose the real-time data from the ocean and map it to in a space totally out of context.

//Animation// Deluge 

Deluge is a beautiful visualization of the change of addresses of Norwegians. The way they got the data was by cross-referencing the tax records between 2006 and 2007 and see the changes in postal addresses. The movement patterns are made visible through a stunning animation built using C++. The visualization becomes particularly interesting and useful when it is filtered by age and demographic. Norwegians over 60 years old mostly move short distances. Obviously, the biggest paychecks are found in the biggest cities. It’s really amazing to see such sterile information presented in such a beautiful way.

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