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My ideas about consciousness gestated through out the readings and class subjects and my own experiences . . . → Read More: class presentation – on consciouness

Saraswathi’s work on breathing seemed to work on the same ideals.

Having technology help you be better, react to your bio feedback, not the other way around (change our behavior to fit into the algorithm). Even though you can argue that you are being conditioned by the machine, I argue back that it is the same condition . . . → Read More: final Project – winter show 2011

. . . → Read More: Finals Presentation : Bardem Barometer 2

Commenting on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s & Seligman’s talk on Flow at this time seems to be apt. Having just come off finals, his ideas regarding flow and also the link between that and happiness certainly have a ring of truth, in my limited experience at least. It reminded me the truth of Seligman’s statement that the pleasurable . . . → Read More: Flow

. . . → Read More: My Pleasure

For those of you who have never used the free Spectral Analysis tool, Spear, definitely download it and start messing around. I have been working with this software for a while, mainly just to play around with sounds, but have been using it more intensely lately for spectral analysis.

I imported the vocal recordings given to me . . . → Read More: Next Steps…

Here are two recordings of the spectral averages of a girl speaking deeply (resonantly) and nasally. The original recordings were analyzed in MaxMSP, deconstructed into the frequency domain, and averaged. Essentially, what you are hearing is the resonant frequency of the sentence over time. The two attached pictures represent the sinusoidal resynthesis of the averaged recording.

I . . . → Read More: Spectral Averages

via . . . → Read More: Dreams – Presentation