Your Wavelength

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Want to see your real dialogue as art, then visualise it as a sound wavelength.



'We offer a way to visualize our words and emotions in a permanent work of art so that it may act as a continuous reminder to us and to others of what is important. Our developed technique offers you the ability to capture your specific voice or any significant audible moment from your life. '  

Voice art- http://www.voiceprintsart.com/


Universal Translator

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Can you picture it! Well google are probably well on their way developing it, but I want to share more doodles and ideas on this blog more.



Won't it be brilliant to use this as an app on your phone, or automatically detect a langauge from a sender then automatically translate it to the language you understand in their reciever. It cant be far away from development.

There is voice to text search app from google on my android htc, i'm sure there is text to voice that I hear students playing with on the mac with it. I can appreciate it probably takes a lot of servers to manage with the global population wanting to converse and communicate in their own lanaguage to other businessmen.

If you take the shannon and weaver communication model diagram of 1949 was... the noise in the middle would be the server translating and detecting idioms (uk an example would be: dog and bone, or up north: put wood in 'oil) and dialects.

Example:

English Voice to English text - server translate text (like at this site on toolbar) - Japanese Text to Japanese Voice

I admit the text to voice convertor might be limited in its translation of tone of the message from intonation of speech and inflection that comes from the rubato of spoken word. Maybe in time it can measure the pace, the raise in volume, the length of pauses, irony, but for now the nearest we can get to word for word meaning would be excellent.

Sound Shirt

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This was devised from a D&AD brief from the pair Sam Mosley and Sarah Mullen and reminds me very much of Sound Sewing that I posted a while ago.

The D&AD brief was,

'create an original and underground viral to drive a diverse aand creative audience to clothing brand Fred Perry's Sub Culture music website'.

Maybe they saw the same thing i had but no doubt they married the music and the clothes perfectly. I need to check if they achieved the technology or if it was just the idea in the video they created of the brilliant White Stipes Seven nation army playing froman ipod hooked up to a sewing machine. plenty of peaks and waves in the sound to create a personalised t shirt.

Think i may have said in the sound sewing post, but i love the unique visual of the soundwave is the accurate form of phonetics, as opposed to arbitary language of the abstract alphabet.

I'd have one of Seven Nation Army, not necessarily a fred perry t shirt. Without quoitng too much of the CR mag's sept 2010 issue (i know it took this long to post it) but, they mention,

'creatives are in a prviliged position to be able to fill up every possible media space that the public comes accross day to day, so it really shouldnt be just any old crap'.

crmag.co.uk/samandsarah

http://web.me.com/sarahmullen1/Site/Welcome.html

Sound Sewing

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Lovely Work. checkout shirt sound too.



Design duo Patrick Li and Ian Gallais make up Sounds Butter which has created Visible Sound.They describe it best:

The intention for this project was to make sound visible. As there is already a variety of ways in which sounds can be seen (equalizers, sub-titles, etc.), my aim was to produce a device where that representation of sound would be a physical one. I therefore used the sewing machine as the basis for the project as I feel it is synonymous with industry, and making physical products. Due to limitations in my computer programming skills this model of a stereo/sewing machine is a prototype of how I imagined the actual product would look.


More related posts from machine thinking: Love this project. giving sound a tactile, physical quality. fantastic. found here: http://machinethinking.org/2008/11/23/visible-sound/