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Sound Mapping in New York City

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:00:17 +0000

New York Mapping by Mark Edward Campos investigates the context around a site. It helps to understand the goings on, in a 24-hour timeframe of an area in New York City.

The center of the graphic is the site Mark and his colleagues investigated. The circular strokes are the times that businesses are open over a 24 hour period. They are color-coded by type (cafe, bar, dance club, park and gym), and the distance from the center shows their real planar distance from the researched site. The length of each stroke represents the time that each business is open daily, on an implied 24-hour clock, with midnight at the top of the circle and noon at the bottom.

The “gaze” and “energy” charts of the map attempt to take a stance on what people are trying to achieve by going to each place. For the videos Mark captured background sound of each place to communicate its ambience.

This work was created by Mark Edward Campos, an Architecture student at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Musical Immersion with Sync/Lost

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:33:24 +0000

SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.

The project’s objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. The choice is individual and leads to a collective consequence in the spatial visualization of information.

Thanks Herbert from 3bits for the submission.

Playful audio-based animation with Concave Scream

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:00:35 +0000

Concave Scream is a promotional website that recently caught my eye. It presents indie band Concave Scream’s latest instrumental album “Soundtrack for a book”. The Flash based applet is a playfull visualization of various book covers.

The user can interact with the visualization just by moving the mouse, draging the cover and destorting the image based on the position of the mouse on the y-Axis. Beside the direct manipulation the user can interact with the animation with a small set of controls. Switching on/off audio based animation and auto-rotation or changing parameters like zoom, contrast and so on.

Although not information visualization by definition but this small applet is worth a look non the less.
The website was created by Kinetic.

Poetic Audio Display

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:21:55 +0000

Inspired by the music of Olafur Arnalds, Esteban Diácono created this little video gem entitled “let yourself feel“. It’s an animation based on the underlying audio along with some inspiring quotes from various sources.

Via Rubbishcorp
See more videos we enjoy on our Vimeo Channel

Cascade on Wheels

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:00:34 +0000

Cascade on Wheels is a project by Steph Thirion, and was initially developed during the 2007 Visualizar workshop at the Medialab Prado in Madrid. “How high or how loud is the average quantity of cars passing by?” Sounds like a queer question? Read on to know how Steph would answer it.

Cascade on Wheels is a visualization project that intends to express the quantity of cars we live with in big cities nowadays. The data set we worked on is the daily average of cars passing by streets, over a year. In this case, a section of the Madrid city center, during 2006. The averages are grouped down into four categories of car types. Light vehicles, taxis, trucks, and buses.

The project consists of two different visualization created with Processing based on the same dataset. The intention behind the two visualizations is to:

present the data in a readable and understandable way and
express the meaning by using intuitively understandable metaphors

Walls Map

The Walls Map builds three dimensional objects on top of the streets depending on the average quantity.

Traffic Mixer

The Traffic Mixer represents the data using visual clues along with an audio display. Turn on your speakers for full enjoyment if you dare.