Reading through this Essay, please provide responses to these 3 discussion posts:
Essay: https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-sounds-of-data-and-nature-join-to-make-sweet-music
Discussion 1: Brya
What sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and political power because of technological change?
Technology
The music industry has seen major changes in doing things and this digital revolution has changed the methods and techniques of creating music to a huge extent. In the earlier century, the processes of making music were analog, but now studios and production companies have made transitions from analog to digital methods of creating music. These changes regarding technology and music methods would be hurting those of studios and production companies, and CEOs of these industries the most because in earlier century recording of music needed thousands of dollars and now with digital workstations software, it has made the recording process significantly easier and cheaper. Therefore, in the reading of Jao carren, the explanation regarding technology and music becomes more understandable in this new era of change. He wrote that Computers became instruments as early as 1951 when Australias first programmable digital computer produced the first musical tone generated by a machine. Within a few years later, the US computer pioneer Max Matthews, an engineer at Bell Labs, was writing programs for sound generation and introducing a new form of computer-generated music to the world.
reference:
Jao, Carren. “Sonifying the world.” AEON, 2 July 2015. AEON, aeon.co/essays/ how-the-sounds-of-data-and-nature-join-to-make-sweet-music. Accessed 2 July 2015.
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Discussion 2: Anosh
What is the problem for which this technology is the solution?
Musical sound also allows listeners to empathise with data, an impossible feat were it not for musics emotive qualities (Jao, par. 29). Sonifying the world is Carren Jaos effort to highlight the impact of music on the human and human mind, all while showcasing Chris Chafes work in finding music in everything around us using technology. In terms of the problem, Jao believes music enables listeners to see even the unnoticeable aspects of the world innately like a part of being (par. 5). Chafes comparison of music using data from the United States gross domestic product (GDP) and the sounds from carbon dioxide level, for example, led him to feel the relation between economic progress and pollution as opposed to simply seeing the data (Jao, par. 6). Music touches the deepest part of self (Jao, par. 1).
The problem, according to Carren Jao, is that we do not see how the nature resonates with music inside us (par. 5). Music is all around us; sometimes discarded as noise, yet present as the wind rushes through leaves (Jao, par. 8). Jao notes Chafes work saying even computers, EEG machines are as much of musical instruments as bamboo angklung, Chinese gongs, and drums (par. 22). The data-driven music, according to Chafe, also has a story outside of the music thats driving it (Jao, par. 23). Music has provided life or heartbeat even to the technological world as demonstrated with Chafe and his associate Greg Niemeyers first data-driven music Ping (Jao, par. 13). Chafe and Niemeyer were even able to show plants breathing, taking in carbon dioxide, and releasing oxygen, with their data-driven music (Jao, par. 15). Jao points that the experience could even get visitors to have increased consciousness of the impact of human breathing as they observe the human breathing rate affecting the music (par. 16). Jao points to Chafes note that if the shutdown of Mexico City during the SARS epidemic was sonified, it could show the 5 percent drop in carbon dioxide level when the world slowed down in the face of tragedy (par. 20). Jao also highlights Chafes collaboration with neuroscientist Josef Parvizi, where they are working on using the technology to convert EEG readings from patients with seizures to create sound to identify seizures in comatose patients (par. 24). They hope to get a simple device to medics can use to identify seizures in minutes saving valuable time that could translate to human life (Jao, par. 25).
Anup Joshi
Works Cited
Jao, Carren. “Sonifying The World.” Aeon, 2 July 2015, aeon.co/essays/how-the-sounds-of-data-and-nature-join-to-make-sweet-music. Accessed 25 Mar. 2021.
Discussion 3: Odil
The question, Whose problem is it?
In this week learning resources the authors discuss the related issues in technology and arts of music are the central to all human cultures throughout the history in time. This article Sonifying in the World by Carren Jao points out that sonifying data is not only artistic, but scientific value as well. Therefore, the knowledge is that sounds are used scientifically, by reading the article. We will never be thought or know of the specific way how sounds especially ambient, noise sounds could be helpful. But we didnt think about how turning music data into sounds could be beneficial for like soothing stress and building both social and cultural bonds. The author Jao described how sonifying data, able to compare things by feeling them. Chris Chafe a director of Stanford Universitys Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA called as karma), was working on a project to turn natural sounds and data into music (Jao). Chafe explained how the movie The Matrix, he talks about the character Neo who went through a streams 1s and 0s that are like music data. Chafe with digital artist Greg Niemeyer found a way to listen to grow bamboo stalks Oxygen Flute (Jao). Chafe produced his first music piece called Ping, which digital artist Greg help to produced as well and displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Jao). Chafe noticed that there were visual similarities between Smog and the GDP but it was not awarded until he heard and saw the similarity by converting them. The author Jao explained how the sound of music can affects on the human brain when exposed to it for instanced in the reduction of anxieties and the effects of the music when it comes to the lowering of tensions. From the attachment of individuals to the different genre of music indeed music takes an enormous percentage of peoples lives that is evident by the preference of persons to various type of music.
References
Jao, Charren. Sonifying the World. 29 November 2017. https://www.aeon.co/essays/how-the-sounds-of-data-and-nature-join-to-make-sweet-music.