[eu-gene] WolframTones (generative music)

[alex]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 14:53 +0200, Ti Bo wrote:
> I think this is called a fax

Yes, I (and Joost, I think) was being sarcastic.

Translation engines such as Lauri's Synestesia have a confusing position
for me.  A brief listen suggested to me that Lauri's software is
scanning across the image, somehow translating pixels into sound.  

Many of us will have played with such techniques, but simple scanning
seems an unsuitable way of translating between domains.  What matters in
an image aren't the pixels, but the shapes and forms created by
interactions between the pixels.  These interactions aren't represented
as a one dimensional scan of the image, but a movement across it by the
eye.  Basically I think almost nothing about an image is translated in
such scans, of a photographic image at least.

Joost's example was interesting though, in that a person can train
themselves to translate a one dimensional scan back into two dimensional
percepts.  It seems more efficient to use our eyes to perceive vision
and ears to perceive sound if we can, though.

alex