Kulturtechno

Jemand hat eine Programmierung gemacht, die MIDI-Dateien in Jump and Run-Levels übersetzt. Was da genau wie verlevelt wird, erschließt sich mir überhaupt nicht, aber ich will es mal glauben. Leider ist die Software nicht frei zugänglich, ihr könnt es euch schon denken, was der Konzeptualist dann alles durchnudeln würde – Bachfugen, Beethovenklaviersonaten, Czerny-Etüden und natürlich Black MIDI.

Adventures of General Midi is a platformer which generates levels based on the notes in a MIDI file. All the built-in levels were built in Logic, and there is an option to import your own MIDI files.
The game was built from scratch using MaxMsp and Javascript. All the music and sound effects are synthesised in realtime. The music is procedurally generated, based on the notes you land on.

(via create digital music)

In den 50er Jahren hat man in Russland verbotene Musik auf eine spezielle Weise kopiert: Die Schallplattenrillen wurden auf Röntgenbildern übertragen.
Mehr davon hier.

From the late thirties, discarded x-rays were re-utilized by talented amateurs and the Hungarian Radio as raw material for recording sound due to shortages caused by the war industry. With the help of a special device, music and public addresses were recorded on thick radiographs and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter, sometimes with uneven brims, given a label and a whole in the middle. This disk now had the double function of being both sound record as well as record of the internal human body; images of ribs, skulls and limbs broken by sound waves and shattered by music inscribed onto the surface.

On the x-ray of a skull, for instance, the song of Anna Kapitány ”What A Nice Evening We Have” can be heard, and together the song and the image could create a undeniably morbid association.

(via Kraftfuttermischwerk / Nerdcore)