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12 Interlocking Irregular Hyperboloidal Dodecahedra 360 units
In my hand.
Following an initial prototype with only a singular unit type which attempted a hexahedral symmetry analog of 30 Dodecahedra, I developed this more nuanced version, which has a different exterior weaving pattern and multiple paper proportions. However, as a constraint, I attempted to use only one pocket type for all of the units. This makes some vertices different than others in terms of the dihedral angles of the surrounding units, but the edges shafts are long enough to accommodate modulation between vertices without appreciable difficulty in most cases. This is constructed via scaffolding so that each dodecahedron represents one edge of a cube. The resulting compound is at the time of writing this, the largest interlocking origami cubic symmetry wireframe compound by unit count that I know of.
Designed by me.
Folded out of Cordenons’ Stardream paper.
Got it far enough along to be functional. Need to address some shifting issues related to the change in cassette.
Conversion performed by using wheels from Velo Orange built on Velocity rims and hubs plus a new SRAM 8-speed cassette to replace the old 7-speed RSX cassette. Also necessitated swapping out the short-reach brakes for some Tektro R556 "extra" long-reach brakes. Was a little worried about some reported flex in the arms, but with the pads about halfway down they seem adequate, even if they don't have the best modulation in the world. Put on some Col de la Vie tires that I had already from another project. Very comfortable, although the tread is a bit strange -- one imagines it's a little squirmy -- on good pavement. Eats up the potholes, expansion joints, and detritus of our battered New England urban roads nicely, though.
The Dirty Carter Electronic Sound Generating Instrument was designed by John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Chris Carter from legendary Industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. It was produced for a special performance by Carter and the 25 strong Dirty Electronics Ensemble in 2010. It was originally designed as a touch controlled instrument with the player's skin resistance completing the circuit. This hard wired modification by A.S.M.O. gives more control and predictability by wiring all to the touch contacts to pots and switches. An additional low pass resonant filter has been added, LFO and an external CV socket for filter modulation.
The case is made of stained ply and the front panel is covered with black leatherette.
Orange Juice Drive is in a classical RAT type circuit and sounding topolgy. We add extra switch for select between symmetric or asymmetric clipping. Not operable with battery.
Stafford Air & Space Museum
The Apollo survival kit provided 48 hours of survival supplies for the three-man crew. Displayed are the contents of one of two rucksacks.
Radio Beacon
The survival radio was a hand-held, dry-cell-battery-powered, electronic signal and voice communications device. The radio could be operated within the SC by using a connector cable to the SC antenna. A constant emergency-signal and voice-contact device was required to aid rescue teams if postlanding recovery was delayed. Voice reception increased from approximately 30 to 120 miles. Voice modulation improved and radio weight was reduced from 6 pounds to 4 pounds. Beacon range reception also increased to 120 nautical miles, for search aircraft operating at 10,000 feet.
Survival Blanket
Three pieces of nylon-Mylar material that are 60 by 42 inches are provided for the Apollo missions. The material could be used for thermal protection and for signal purposes.
Water Containers
Three water containers were included in the Apollo survival kit. A 1/4-inch-radius indention forming an "X" on each of the two largest sides of the water containers solved a deflection problem which occurred because of pressure differential. A few crewmen also stated that the aluminum caused the water to have an undesirable taste.
The spillway of the water reservoir "Lacul Morii" (Mill's Lake) was commissioned in 1986. The reservoir is the largest lake in Bucharest, with an area of 246 ha. It was built for flood protection and for flow modulation of Dambovita river. Making a lake near an urban area required decommissioning of existing uses, including demolition and decommissioning of a church.
Connected Vehicle SafetyCars that look out for each other
With a little warning, many traffic accidents can be avoided altogether. Enabling cars and scooters to communicate and work together may be the first step to avoid collisions and other incidents. To do this, fast and reliable communication amongst vehicles is critical, even on crowded city streets. Intel Labs, through the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Connected Context Computing, is exploring visible light from tail lights to support high-speed data transmission over the short distances between vehicles. The technology uses direct modulation of LED tail lights to encode data in the visible spectrum, while maintaining a constant ambient lighting state. At almost no
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
White Sands Missile Range Museum
Telemetry is the science of measuring something in one place and reporting the results in another.
A simple example of telemetry is the automobile speedometer, which measures the wheels' rotation and presents it in miles per hour on the dashboard.
Most telemetry used in missile testing is Radio Frequency (RF) transmitted from a missile to a ground receiver. NASA uses telemetry to keep tabs on the functioning of space equipment. Telemetry has been one of the most important data sources used for testing at WSMR.
This telemetry package was discovered in an old missile assembly building in the mid-1980s. Shipping documents indicate that it was shipped to Douglas Aircraft Company at White Sands Proving Ground in 1956 and 1957.
These Commutator/ Transmitter sets are believed to have been utilized in the Honest John rocket.
Especially noteworthy is the fact that this Commutator was a motor driven, mechanical device and the VCO/Transmitter package used vacuum tubes. Today's packages are completely solid state.
How did this circa-1957 telemetry package work?
COMMUTATOR
Analog voltages representing a number of functions such as elevon, rudder and seeker head positions pressure, and battery voltages were sequentially sampled and converted to a voltage pulse temperature, train (commutated data) and sent to a VCO
VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator)
The voltage pulse train (commutated data) was used to drive a VCO to vary the oscillator's center frequency (called FM or frequency modulation)
TRANSMITTER
This FM (frequency modulated) signal from the VCO was then sent to a RF Transmitter (radio frequency amplifier) that transmitted the data through an onboard antenna to a ground station receiver
RECEIVER
The ground station received this transmitted data signal and sent it through an FM discriminator that changed the data signal back to a voltage pulse train.
DECOMMUTATOR
The decommutator converted the voltage pulse train data back to the original set of analog functions that were then recorded on media such as strip charts or analog tapes.
Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release envelope generated by direct PWM synthesis on an Arduino. The envelope is pre-computed using a small C program on a Linux machine, then stored in 256 bytes of Flash memory (ROM) in the Arduino's processor.
Image shows placement of a single front loaded primary transmit coil running across a 50MHz DDS (Direct-Digital-Synthesiser). The DDS includes full Freq-Phase modulation control for both power and data transfer. On-board circuitry also includes real time phase and magnitude monitoring of primary coil voltage and current waveforms allowing full monitoring of resulting transformer impedance and power coupling.
A single coil driver was included as a fallback option after requirements changes mandating direct wire galvanic coupling of signals into the eye via a percutaneous plug.
Advanced eye-tracking coil driver functions were subsequently removed from future designs with eye tracking then reverting to the use of mirrors and FPGA driven image segmentation ;-(
Group 1_
Cynthia Castillo, Moises Talavera, Amir Hanna, Guillermo Perez, Osvaldo Andrade
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
A pedal for aggressive, mid-gain, fuzz like clipping drive tone fans. High output capability can used for pushing an amplifier. It also acts as a clean boost, when drive knob is all the way down. Operable with battery.
Controls: Volume, Fine, Gain (6 position rotary switch)
Dimensions: 20" wide X 10" tall X 12" deep.
Uses standard 1/4" jacks for audio out and patch panel.
Monophonic, with low-pass filter, envelope (HADSR) controls, LFO, pitch width modulation, white and pink noise generation, and external signal in jack.
About the Korg MS-10:
Another view from our studio. We used RSF synth and the modular system : (x3) Exp I ; (x2) Exp II ; (x2) Programmer ; (x1) KM-8 mixer.
Music :
soundcloud.com/nightbirds-electronic
soundcloud.com/nightbirds-past-records
Vidéo :
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
12 Interlocking Irregular Hyperboloidal Dodecahedra 360 units
2-fold view.
Following an initial prototype with only a singular unit type which attempted a hexahedral symmetry analog of 30 Dodecahedra, I developed this more nuanced version, which has a different exterior weaving pattern and multiple paper proportions. However, as a constraint, I attempted to use only one pocket type for all of the units. This makes some vertices different than others in terms of the dihedral angles of the surrounding units, but the edges shafts are long enough to accommodate modulation between vertices without appreciable difficulty in most cases. This is constructed via scaffolding so that each dodecahedron represents one edge of a cube. The resulting compound is at the time of writing this, the largest interlocking origami cubic symmetry wireframe compound by unit count that I know of.
Designed by me.
Folded out of Cordenons’ Stardream paper.
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrHkvvtrXhA
The Crazy Looper is a small handmade device that allows you the create real-time noise loops with a fast modulation metallic effect.
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
This is a tremolo that we have designed as standard sounding with LFO. Transparent and in sinusodial wave form. Extra led indicates LFO's speed. Not operable with battery.Controls: Depth, Rate--SOLD--
Dimensions: 20" wide X 10" tall X 12" deep.
Uses standard 1/4" jacks for audio out and patch panel.
Monophonic, with low-pass filter, envelope (HADSR) controls, LFO, pitch width modulation, white and pink noise generation, and external signal in jack.
About the Korg MS-10:
The Dirty Carter Electronic Sound Generating Instrument was designed by John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Chris Carter from legendary Industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. It was produced for a special performance by Carter and the 25 strong Dirty Electronics Ensemble in 2010. It was originally designed as a touch controlled instrument with the player's skin resistance completing the circuit. This hard wired modification by A.S.M.O. gives more control and predictability by wiring all to the touch contacts to pots and switches. An additional low pass resonant filter has been added, LFO and an external CV socket for filter modulation.
The case is made of stained ply and the front panel is covered with black leatherette.
Having fun with my new Strobist gear. Decided to take this interesting older radio out of the cabinet and see what I could do.
Strobist info:
Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM, 13mm extension tube
1/250, f/8, ISO 100
Canon Speedlite 430EX @ 1/64, 105mm camera right
Canon Speedlite 430EX II @ 1/64, 24mm behind radio
20" silver reflector camera left
Flashes fired via CyberSync triggers
Here's some spec's on this sweet system. It's a "Matrix" system, meaning that it has the ability to change all of it's routings on every preset.
Instead of being tied to one signal flow you can have any signal flow you want, when you want. Which is pretty handy for score music composer & guitar instrumental musician who has to constantly change the signal flow.
The switcher has a software interface that allows you to create an icon for each device and it's corresponding input(s) & Output(s), then using the mouse, connect the rig you want to have at that moment with no extra devices connected to the signal path for the cleanest path possible from pick ups to speakers.
A matrix switcher has 16x Inputs & 16x Outputs, so we decided to put 5 switchers in this system, connected them to each other & bunch of other cool gear. Each switcher has a "Group" responsibility:
1. "Master" - Magnetic & Piezo Inputs + 4x Amplifiers + 1 Axe FX ("Front End" of 4 Wire Config) + Multiple Connections to the other Switchers
2. "Harmonics" - Octave, Fuzz & Overdrive devices.
3. "Dynamics" - Compressors, EQ's Filters, Synthesizers.
4. "Modulations" - Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, UniVibe, & Tremolo.
5. "Time" - Delays & Reverbs + Axe FX ("Back End") for Reverb, Delay & Looper.
Any order & combination of series & parallel is possible, the possibilities for signal routings are only limited by the player's imagination...
In the afternoon of 15 April 2009, the Moon-1 Humvee Rover encountered a snow-covered lead (opening in the sea-ice exposing liquid water) at 68o15.573’N, 108o52.820’W which caused the vehicle to sink through slush and become immobilized. The Northwest Passage Drive Expedition team succeeded in rescuing the vehicle using the Moon-1’s powerful front winch, ice anchors, and the Humvee’s unique break throttle modulation (BTM) torque transfer capability. The Expedition continued that day and reached Campsite Five at the western tip of Kent Peninsula (68o36.820’N, 108o19.409’W) in the evening, achieving a distance traversed that day of 97 km and a total distance traversed from Kugluktuk of 336 km.
(Photo Mars Institute/Haughton-Mars Project/J. Schutt)
Highlights from NPR (Neighborhood Public Radio) at MOCA's Engagment Party. "IN YOUR CAR" Day 2 of 3
While MOCA generally encourages green transportation, NPR asks that visitors bring their cars to this event. FREE parking will be available in public lot 7; entry is accessible from Judge John Aiso Street.
In Your Car will feature two concurrent sound projects broadcasting on local frequencies, Park Park Revolution and Ping Modulation.
Park Park Revolution will be a composition “played” by cars parked in the lot surrounding the Geffen Contemporary. NPR will divide the Geffen lot into four sections, with each assigned to its own broadcast frequency. Directed into parking spaces, drivers will be instructed to tune in their radios and turn up their volumes to create a quadraphonic matrix of sound.
Under the canopy located at the Geffen entrance, Ping Modulation will pay homage to artist Robert Rauschenberg’s Open Score. For this project, NPR will outfit ping-pong tables with contact microphones and sound processors; as visitors match off in games of table tennis, the noise of their play will be fed to radio broadcasts that will transform their participation into sound art.
Published on May 2, 2011
by MOCA
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Dub~STEP~ARCADE
a cross between a dub siren and atari punk console with A/D gen and LFO modulation
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With the EBS UniChorus you can choose between low noise studio quality Chorus, Flange and Pitch Modulation effects. Analog Processing
The pedal is built with the best analog processing circuitry. This gives a smoother, warmer and fatter sounding chorus/flange effect, useful both for live and studio performances.
Manchester Cathedral.
St Mary Window, 1980.
By Antony Hollaway (1928-2000).
In 1963 the stained glass designer and craftsman Tony Hollaway was introduced to the Manchester architect, Harry Fairhurst. Eight years later, after they had worked together on commissions in Cheshire and Liverpool, Fairhurst sought Tony's advice about a plan for five large stained-glass windows in Manchester Cathedral.
Thus was Tony asked to design and make the first window, the St George in the inner south-west aisle. It was completed in 1973. Further windows followed in 1976 and 1980 and the final window, Revelation was installed in 1995.
Detail: The St Mary Window. Designed by Antony Hollaway, 1980. (This is in the Tower.)
The circle, which dominates the window, is the ancient Christian symbol of perfection. It is marred by the death of Jesus in the form of a shart of leight or the sword. This is a direct reference to the prohecy of Simeon to the Blessed Virgin at the time of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. (“A sword shall piee through your own Soul also”. Luke 2: 35).
This destoryed the perfection of the circle which is compensated for visually the the arcs of red and yellow. “And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven: a women clother with the sun, the moon under her feet …” (Revelation 12:1). These radii restore the symmetry required for formal and design purposes.
These are seven shades of blue within the circle, blue being a colour traditionally associated with St Mary the Virgin. The circle contains a serpent. This is a multiple image best understood under the following headings:
The circle placed upon these blocks of colour are letter forms both upper and lower case which are essentially to create a pattern. However, they may be re-assembled to read verses from the Magnificate: left to right. The act of re-assembling the letters is intended to concentrate the mine on the text which would not necessarily result from ‘easy reading’.
The above details are intended to present:
1. A suitable light modulation for this part of the building.
2. A relationship with the two adjoining windows.
3. A monumentality and dignity appropriate to the Architecture and to the special place of this window in the Scheme, and of the Virgin Mary among the Patron Saints of the Cathedral.
All the teaching elements of the window are subordinate to the formal design requirements expressed in (3).
Class 4 antennas such as Sentinel® from CommScope diminish the
risk of interference to the microwave link (see graph), providing a marked improvement of the
carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio. This allows radios to operate at higher modulation levels for
longer, thereby increasing total traffic and, hence, revenue over the link.
Additionally, Class 4 antennas with their low side lobe levels allow better reuse of the same
frequency channel, thus requiring fewer channels. This more efficient use of spectrum offers
significant advantages: The repeated reuse of the same frequencies substantially reduces
spectrum costs; alternatively, where required, the spectrum freed by using Class 4 antennas
allows wider channels to be used, thus increasing capacity in the network.
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
We hosted a lunch meeting with a couple of our favorite Stanford Profs: Nolan Williams (rapid TMS, ibogaine, nanoparticle drug-delivery to specific brain regions unlocked by focused ultrasound) and Karl Deisseroth (optogenetics, deep brain gene expression and ketamine).
Deisseroth is the pioneer of optogenetics, the mind-reading & writing tool that allows for individual neuron targeting and manipulation, and his new work looks at the effects of mind-altering drugs on brain function in detail.
For a sense of the power of his methods: he can take a pair of mice than were just mating happily, and with a flip of a switch, they become violent to each other. He made a mouse walk in an infinite left turn loop when a fiber optic is flipped on in the motor cortex (with no apparent awareness or distress at being controlled this way). He admits that he finds this capability “deeply disturbing.”
Another team selectively activated subsets of parenting behavior (like bringing wandering young back to the nest, or grooming behaviors). They can also probe three different sub-states of anxiety that we only experience as a bundle.
How does this work? Before the plant kingdom evolved chlorophyll to harvest energy from sunlight, the more ancient bacteria used rhodopsins in a membrane-bound proton-pump to do the same. The rhodopsins captured a swath of the sun’s spectrum, tilting the algae to the leftover parts of the spectrum not yet absorbed, and this is why plants are green. Karl introduced these bacterial light-triggered elements into neurons of interest using a viral vector to the brain. He can then trigger neuronal firing optically, as the rhodopsin pump supplements the ion channels in the neuron. He can also trigger reporter molecules from the bacterial world to read out brain activity as the brain is functioning.
So, for example, he has observed a 3 Hz cycling in the retrosplenial cortex of a mouse brain on ketamine, and he has been able to reproduce the effects with optogenetic stimulation to achieve similar effects. He has also found that the dissociative drugs (ketamine and PCP) allow for reflexes to pain (e.g., heat on paw or puff of air to eyes) to continue normally, while the protective cognitive reactions (licking the paws after heat or squinting in anticipation of the next puff) disappear, a disassociation of mind and body reflexes.
He is diving deeper into the brain to investigate how this works, finding that the various subregions of the thalamus are regulated by disassociative drugs by overpowering the voting circuits with a pulsing 3 Hz modulation of the ketamine-enhanced circuits. The other nodes in the thalamus are operating as before, but do not achieve as powerful a consensus. The thalamus regulates where we spend our attention and conscious focus, to avoid doing everything we might be tempted to do simultaneously, and thereby not really doing any of them well.
The implications of this level of understanding are enormous. The questions we can now ask using optogenetics will transform how we understand mental disorders and also call into question some deep philosophical questions surrounding consciousness and free will. It may also unveil the mysteries about how psychedelics operate in the brain, allowing us to optimize the use cases for testing in human clinical trials. Exciting work is going on with psilocybin for alcohol use disorder, extreme OCD and the eating disorders (which are also a disassociation of mind from body).
Also, “some patients do not disassociate on ketamine. From some anecdotal evidence, those tend to be the sociopaths.”
Disassociation naturally has a 10% incidence, and 70% among people with trauma. When in a state of induced disassociation (e.g., from ketamine), that 3 Hz rhythm occurs in a part of the Default Mode Network involved with coordinate transformations (aligning the 3D models for ego-centric and allocentric coordinates).
I find this fascinating in light of Jeff Hawkins’ work on the ubiquity of reference frames in cortical columns: Everything we perceive is a constructed reality, a cortical consensus from competing internal models resident in many cortical columns, the amalgam of 1000 brains. Those models are updated by data streaming from the senses. But our reality resides in the models.
Some of Deisseroth’s newest work saves and sequences the brain cells that stick to the deep-drain electrode needles, a core sample of genetic expression at different depths. These cells were routinely discarded, but now offer a new view into the workings of the brain.
• More on optogenetics: optogenetics.org at Stanford
• My prior post on Nolan Williams and the remarkable results using a single dose of ibogaine to cure TBI disability (and depression, PTSD, anxiety, and addiction all in one go): x.com/FutureJurvetson/status/1743305447103516773
BOSS OC-3 Octaver > Digitech Whammy
Whammy Dry: BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner (doubling as a mute) > Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler (x3)
Whammy Wet: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi > Boss DD-3 > Boss DD-7 > Line 6 MM4 Modulation Modeler
Orange Rocker 30 > Orange 2x10
The Dirty Carter Electronic Sound Generating Instrument was designed by John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Chris Carter from legendary Industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. It was produced for a special performance by Carter and the 25 strong Dirty Electronics Ensemble in 2010. It was originally designed as a touch controlled instrument with the player's skin resistance completing the circuit. This hard wired modification by A.S.M.O. gives more control and predictability by wiring all to the touch contacts to pots and switches. An additional low pass resonant filter has been added, LFO and an external CV socket for filter modulation.
The case is made of stained ply and the front panel is covered with black leatherette.
Teisipäev, 14. aprill kell 19.30 ja 21.00
Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20)
Pilet 10/7 eelmüügist, 12/7 enne kontserti
KAVAS:
“Rhythmus 21” (1921): Video Hans Richter, muusika Ove-Kuth Kadak (2015, esiettekanne) … 3’10”
“(üle)küllus” (2015, esiettekanne): Muusika ja video Aljona Kastjušina … 7’
“Controcorrente” (2012, Eesti esiettekanne): Muusika ja video Ivan Penov … 7’30″
“Phase Walk” (2015, esiettekanne): Henri Georg Viies … u 7’
“Cross modulation” (2015, esiettekanne): Muusika Ekke Västrik … 7’
“Ghosts and Whispers” (2014, Eesti esiettekanne): Muusika ja video Damiano Marconi … 6’30″
“Merkin” (2015, esiettekanne): Hendrik Tammjärv … u 7’
“Seppie senz’ossa” (2013, Eesti esiettekanne): Video Paolo Pachini, muusika Roberto Doati … 10’
“Rhythmus 21” (1921): Video Hans Richter, muusika Giovanni Tancredi (2015, esiettekanne) … 3’10”
Audiovisuaalsed kompositsioonid, versioon 1.2: visuaalne väljendus muusikalise mõtte laiendusena.
Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia kompositsiooniosakonna audiovisuaalse kompositsiooni kontsert toob kokku selle valdkonna ajaloo olulise repertuaari ja EMTA audiovisuaalse kompositsiooni tudengite loomingu. Sel aastal esitleb EMTA muuhulgas rahvusvaheliselt tuntud heliloojate Paolo Pachini ja Roberto Doati audiovisuaalse kompositsiooni “Seppie senz’ossa” (2013) Eesti esiettekannet.
Kontserdi kunstiline juht on Paolo Girol.
Kestus: umbes 1 tund.
Saadaval piiratud hulk pileteid (kontsert kantakse ette kaks korda, igal kontserdil ainult 50 istekohta patjadel). Hilinejaid sisse ei lubata!
Koostöös Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia kompositsiooniosakonna ja festivaliga “Saksa kevad”
Group 1_
Cynthia Castillo, Moises Talavera, Amir Hanna, Guillermo Perez, Osvaldo Andrade
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
SMS303's Ultra Rare Dutch
Tidal Quad Modular Filter
Only 15-20 are build
Back rear controls, in-outputs
The Tidal Quad is a 4-channel filterbank with extensive control and modulation possibilities. The filter can be used in High-/ Low-/ or Bandpass with an Envelope follower for each mode. There is also an LFO for each set of 2 Channels which allows complex modulations. Additionally it offers a Waveshaper for each channel. For friends of analog distortion this unit leaves no wish open.
* 4x HP/BP/LP - Filtermodule
* LFO Channel 1+2 (Cutoff)
* LFO Channel 3+4 (Cutoff)
* LFO each channel positive or negative switch
* 1 Waveshaper per Channel
* 4x Sidechain Input with Envelope Follower for Cutoff-Modulation
The resonant filter might be the most important effect in popular music these days. However if you want to insert a filter on multiple channels of your mixer and also would like to have a lot of knobs and modulation possibilities, there was no real solution. That's why Tidal Music Electronics announces it's four channel desktop multimode filter. You can switch the four individual resonant filters between Lowpass, Bandpass and Highpass modus. Each filter can be modulated by an envelope follower, a LFO and an external CV. The envelope follower is specially designed to track percussive sounds without false triggering, a key feature when used with drumcomputers, grooveboxes or guitar.
Maximum Modulation:
Each filterbank has 4 VCFs, 4 Waveshapers, 4 Envelopefollowers and 2 Low Frequency Oscillators (LFOs). The filters are switchable between 3 modes, Lowpass, Bandpass and Highpass. The Low- and Bandpass are 24 dB and the Highpass is 12 dB/Oct. The cutoff of each channel can be modulated by it's own Envelope follower which can be fed by a sidechain input or by the audiosignal itself. This option gives you the possibilities to create very funky filter-effects. Each LFO modulates 2 channels and every channel has it's own depth controller which can be set positive or negative. This can be used to generate cool stereo effects.
The Waveshaper
The waveshaper is one of the components which give the filterbank it's unique sound. It actually is a wavefolder which "folds" the tops of the waveform back instead of clipping. This sounds a bit like an overdrive but also has some characteristics of Frequency Modulation.
To give you a better idea what the waveshaper actually does we'll illustrate what happens with a simple sine wave using different ratio settings for each of the two shaper modes.