AME Homwork Week 5

The Birth of Loop

Humans first learned how to create music from nature, listening to wild animal calls, so it's only natural that like bird songs, many songs created by man exhibit a certain repetitiveness. There's a pleasing quality to repetitive songs, and eventually, after the rise of contemporary music, looping became a common technique. First possible in the sixties, looping is now very easy to do for almost anyone with a computer, and digital looping is as ubiquitous as it is pleasing to the ear.

The Five Principles of New Media

Numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding are the five principles. They are the basic pillars of how a computer functions and processes logic. The five different principles provide an interesting perspective on how human innovation and computer logic create a very powerful synergy for creativity. Each principle discusses how humans and computers interact, determining how things are created by each entity.

Avant Garde as Software

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Scott Snibbe

A graphical artist that grew up in a seventies plastic work shop that learned to create things for his own entertainment. Very cool. His work is very impressive and very fun. Showcased at the Berkley art museum, students can actually participate in Snibbe's pieces, posing for video cameras that capture volunteers' movements, adding them to the piece in real time. The whole thing is displayed masterfully through a visually entrancing video. Snibbe has a very interesting background, and it's cool to see someone use such a wide array of degrees that seemingly have no connection do something very impressive.

{Software} Structures

There are some very ingenuous things that can be pulled off using processing and similar languages. It's both very impressive and very intimidating to see the different types of artwork that can be made just using simple idea and having it executed through a series of code. It definitely broadens my view of what processing can actually do.