Kulturtechno

Letztlich finden wir doch wieder das Naturspeichermedium. Natürlich auch gruselig, dass man irgendwann eine Schnittstelle am Körper hat, über die man alle seine Daten >in sich selber< speichert. Die Musik macht mal wieder den Anfang.

Zunächst hatten die Forscher die Audiodaten des Albums auf 15 Megabytes verdichtet – dazu nutzten sie das Opus-Audioformat, es liefert eine bessere Musikqualität als MP3. Eine US-Firma stellt nun 920.000 kurze DNA-Schnipsel her, auf denen die gesamte Information gespeichert ist.

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Die so entstandene DNA soll laut ETH in 5000 winzige Glaskügelchen eingebracht werden, die in Wasser in einem winzigen Fläschchen aufbewahrt werden können. Es sei jederzeit möglich, die DNA wieder aus den Glaskügelchen herauszulösen, in der richtigen Reihenfolge aneinanderzufügen und die Musikdatei über Sequenzierung der vier DNA-Bausteine zu lesen und abzuspielen.

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Inspirierend.

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To create an ear, the printer lays down a pliable, porous scaffold made of hydrogel, a kind of polymer. The scaffold is covered with skin cells and cartilage cells, which grow and fill in the ear-shaped form. The hydrogel eventually biodegrades; after about six months the ear is composed entirely of human cells. “We use the patient’s own cells,” says Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine. That way the organs won’t be rejected.

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Von S. Stoppel

Almost one year ago I started working on drawing algorithms soon after that I opened an experimental design studio LinesLab that explores algorithmic art and robotics.
After about 9 months I finished a system that is capable of drawing in many different styles and allows to create a completely new style within a couple of minutes. The system automatically optimizes the drawings based on their size, used materials and the perceived similarity. Here are some results of the drawings I made with my pen plotter Karel. Each drawing is computed in just under one second and Karel between one or three hours to complete the drawings, depending on the drawing complexity, the drawing sped and the size of the drawing.

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Claude Young erklärts. Wäre hinsichtlich der Symbolik noch weiterzudenken.

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Man meint es hören zu können.

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Tutorial/Beispiele von Caspar Johannes Walter

Soundtrack Box No. 1 was made to produce music for a feature film.

It provided me with just as many limitations and possibilities, as I needed in order to be fully comfortable in the creative process. This video briefly demonstrates some of its capabilities. The soundtrack itself has of course more musical value.

I often have to convince my friends that the box has its own reverb and no additional effects are used. There’s just an extension spring inside the box and a little contact microphone attached to it.

Now I’ve decided to make a new box for every film I’m asked to compose for in the future! Soundtrack boxes are fun!

In 1983, when the first compact disc players arrived on the Australian market, they ranged in price from $900-$1800. (This made them a very significant purchase, given that the Australian Bureau of Statistics says average weekly earnings were around $350/week at the time). The price didn’t hold back the rapid adoption of the technology.

But even then, as Sonia put it in her closing remarks, there was an even better technology on the horizon.

“The Compact Disc may well rule the roost – at least until someone perfects a method of putting Beethoven’s 9th on a silicon chip. Don’t laugh, I’m assured that that day, in fact, is not too far off…..”

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