this blog is a book that you need headphones to hear. or rather, this blog is what will not fit into a book. the book "cellular rhythms" is the record of one semester's worth of work and research at harvard's graduate school of design. this blog does not stand alone: without the book it is only a fragment and its full explanation is obscured.
what does fit into a book: images, text, diagrams, photographs, anything that is static
what does not fit into a book: sound, video, anything that requires continuous time to be understood
the printed book is slow, high-fi, careful, static.
the digital book is quick, low-fi, may disappear at a whim.
enjoy your digital book. most likely it will be gone tomorrow.
and turn up your base. this is a book you can dance to. or do whatever it is that you happen to do with music in the background.
Operation 1: Voronoi Cell Creation
3d voronoi script written by dan sullivan
iterative testing done by eli allen
Operation 2: Cell Scaling (Fenestration)
attractor points script written by roland snooks
script editing and testing by eli allen
Operation 3: Cell Rotation
attractor points script written by roland snooks
script editing and testing by eli allen
Building Parsings - Representative Sequence
book pages 6-7
all sound pieces are translations of diagrams of urban blocks in brooklyn. the pitch of a tone is given by a building's height, while the length of a tone is given by the width of a building's facade. the base tone corresponds to a sidewalk end (a single base tone indicates turning a corner, a double base tone indicates crossing the street, a quadruple base tone indicates crossing a street with a median). in the sequence above each side street is represented by a different channel: your right speaker plays the upper sequence while your left speaker plays the lower sequence. all other sound translations look at only one side of the street and the sound will be identical in both speakers.
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