{"id":325,"date":"2014-12-06T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?p=325"},"modified":"2014-12-06T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T14:58:24","slug":"shorts-33-birthday-music-for-caroline-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/2014\/12\/shorts-33-birthday-music-for-caroline-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorts #33: Birthday Music for Caroline (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/images\/play.gif\" width = 12 height = 12 alt=\"[play]\"\/>Shorts #33: Birthday Music for Caroline<\/a> (2014)<\/p>\n<p>Commissioned in honour of Caroline&#8217;s birthday &#8211; &#8220;Happy Birthday, love from Lauren and Alistair&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was a digital piece using a very large number of scripts. First I wrote a SuperCollider script to generate some stochastic sounds. Then I wrote a script to convert audio files into bmp graphics files. Then I wrote a script to convert those files to jpegs, glitch the jpegs and convert back to audio. Then I also did several revisions of drawing more and more on the images in GIMP to transform them.  I ended up with several batch processing scripts to glitch audio using visual data processing.  I&#8217;ve put some of them on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/celesteh\">github<\/a> and the rest will go after I fix some bugs I found after finishing this piece.<\/p>\n<p>After generating loads of material, I listened to it and assembled it as a collage in Ardour.<\/p>\n<p>The images are also kind of interesting! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/celesteh\/15321682613\" title=\"2.aiff.au.bmp.jpg.gl by Charles Hutchins, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7509\/15321682613_42471c0a38_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"2.aiff.au.bmp.jpg.gl\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_395\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('395','http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=325-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"birthdaycaroline.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:00 &#8212; 1.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorts #33: Birthday Music for Caroline (2014) Commissioned in honour of Caroline&#8217;s birthday &#8211; &#8220;Happy Birthday, love from Lauren and Alistair&#8221; This was a digital piece using a very large number of scripts. First I wrote a SuperCollider script to generate some stochastic sounds. Then I wrote a script to convert audio files into bmp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_396\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('396','http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=325-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2014\/birthdaycaroline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"birthdaycaroline.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:00 &#8212; 1.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,51,35,4,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-85","category-commission","category-data-bending","category-noise","category-short-attention-span","category-supercollider","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}