soundfiles

Douglas Adams tribute

Thu, 4 Jan 2007 11:03:44 +0000

A short soundfile in homage to DA.

mike sings the i ching

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:40:40 +0000

I once tried to create a poem inspired by the idea of “moving lines” in I Ching hexagrams. The thumbnail image above shows how there are 64 possible hexagrams; each is made of six lines, and each line can be broken or unbroken. Hence, 64 permutations. What is less well known (well, was to me) is that there are, actually at least double that number of permutations. You don’t often cast a static hexagram but one with at least one “moving line” ie a line that’s broken but about to become unbroken

ian txthead

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:07:47 +0000

My latest Txthead is of Ian McMillan, the poet. I’ve taken lots of quotes about him, from his website, and run it all together. Then I’ve coloured the six discrete letters of his name, and left the rest of the text grey. And cut the result into a profile that looks (a bit) like Ian. On a whim, I’ve tried singing the resulting text - assigning notes to the coloured letters, and singing the whole text leaving gaps for the letters. The latter I did in C, the coloured letters are in D, E, F, G, A

txthead bb

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:51:18 +0000

To accompany my new Txthead - see today’s blog - I’ve made a sound file reading the Txthead. The letter clusters tend to re-occur. I’ve tried sped up and slowed down parallel voices. It’s interesting when whole words happen to come up - because all the letters in the word also occur in the name of the subject of the “profile”.

pi tracks by themselves

Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Here are the tracks that are playing, looping and excerpted, in the background of my Homemade Pi soundfile. They all follow the rule of 3 letter word, 1 letter word, 4 letter word etc, in their respective languages. They are: CATALAN Ell i ella, l'unica esperanca de tindre fills que tenen, Him and her, the only hope they have to have children, DUTCH Wat, U moet 't getal berekenen What (or: So), you have to compute the number? GERMAN Dir, o Held, o alter Philosoph, du Riesen-Genie! (To) You