Walk of the Dog

Walk of the Dog

This map is not a gps drawing of the owners track walking the dog, but the track of where the dog walked (mostly ran).





I attached my gps enabled phone to the dogs collar (highly protected, insulated) and let him loose until finished walk.

Loved the idea of a record of where he went drawn. go to the google map and really see the zoom of where he went, ok I know its just green. 





Reminds me of Claude Heaths drawings from blind folded. 

http://goo.gl/maps/ISNt



Published on 2011/06/05 7:56 pm.
Filed under: abstract, gps, map, movement, spatial

Mass in C major

These are so beautiful, saw them in Aperture from fellow tutor. Think they are from 2007 so apologies if it is repeating an over posted project but they are brilliant from the open ended group. 



http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/51d120bbc0ee9f7033403455e23ad0ee.jpg

Aperture magazine issue 88 x 84


'We compare the “Gloria” section of Bach’s Mass in C to that of another contrapuntal mass — in this case, Beethoven’s Mass in C major of 1807.

The paired scores are rotated counter-clockwise, allowing time to run upwards. The words of the Mass are arranged on their inner margins. We track and inscribe the order in which the singers advance through the words, illuminating the ebb and flow of vocal time in counterpoint.' http://openendedgroup.com/index.php/artworks/breath/breath-web/

Might not be able to discern exact data from them and are more aesthetically inspiring in form than function, but does make music look as good as it sounds.

 

'I believe in God — Bach’s God. (Glenn Gould)

The Latin text of the Roman Mass has been set to music repeatedly throughout the history of Western music. Since that text has been relatively stable since the 11th century, it forms a useful constant when set within different musical scores, allowing us to make unusual but telling comparisons among them.

Having chosen Bach’s Mass in B minor of 1749 as the canonical work, we compared it to two other contrapuntal compositions. In this lightbox we compare the “Gloria” sections of Bach’s composition and Ockeghem’s Missa Mi-mi of the 15th century. In the next lightbox, we compare Bach with Beethoven.

The paired scores are rotated counter-clockwise, allowing time to run upwards. The words of the Mass are arranged on their inner margins. We track and inscribe the order in which the singers advance through the words, illuminating the ebb and flow of vocal time in counterpoint. In this fashion, the unique differences of the musical structures disclose themselves to the eye: the concise clarity of Ockeghem, the intricate enumeration of Bach, and the complex convolution of Beethoven.' http://openendedgroup.com/index.php/artworks/breath/breath-web/

 





Collaborators

Jane Moss, Mostly Mozart Artistic Director, instigated and oversaw the project with the able assistance of her colleagues Jon Nakagawa, Chris Gentile, and others.

Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects (Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis, Jason Dannenbring, Julian Rose) created the physical design.

Robert Wierzel was the lighting designer, with Jeff Harris the assistant lighting designer.

Ruth Cunningham and Elizabeth Baber, together with the singers of New York Polyphony, performed the source music.


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Published on 2010/06/05 6:55 pm.
Filed under: movement, music, narrative, poetry

Emotion Map

screenshot2 Emotion Map

Worcester Waterfront is an exciting 2 year project to improve the city’s riverside. It will provide more seating and paving,
suitable lighting, interpretation of the natural and social history of everything along the route and linking up all sorts of places and stories along the way. The idea is to also achieve the building of another bridge across the river for pedestrians and cyclists at Diglis Island, to form one of the best two and a half km circular walks in the country.

Through Andy Stevenson at Worchester university the council are using a new form of multimedia visualisation to help develop the Waterfront proposals, both to illustrate the route online, and to gain opinions about the area to inform the design. The method, which involves satellite (GPS) tracking, heart rate monitoring and listening to audio commentaries is helping to show how individuals both utilise and react when out travelling along the riverside paths near Worcester’s City Centre.
The system is being developed to help the progress of the design and to see how stretches of the riverside can be most
effectively enhanced for all users.

Emotimap is great idea and Andy and the team are currently planning how to make this visualisation available commercially. It has some good attempts at linking colour and emotion to geographic location. here is the link to the project for the worchester council http://www.worcester.gov.uk:8080/emotimaps/


An image taken from the map showing the coloured ‘mood’ markers.

Andy has also done an interesting project featured at Movement Mapping on Flickr that is creative capturing a peculiar
variable of the cat.


Good stuff. thanks for the embed link andy.

Published on 2009/05/02 11:53 am.
Filed under: colour, emotion, geographic, movement, opinion