Influenced by Roman Singer's extended definition of sculpture (e.g.: invoking time in pieces like "Helicopter with a Blue Spray Can"), Time Knowles unifies his work with ideas about chance and process. They are also involve transcoding physical movement visually: using drawing devices to transcribe the acceleration of a car, the movement of a tree branch, or the wind's effect on a balloon.
"How many Shaquille O'Neals in a giraffe's neck?" Approximately 1.24. Weird Converter transcodes nonstandard measurement units.
Rosemarie Fiore's Scrambler Drawings transcode position over time is into a permanent visual form. Gas generators and buckets of paint are connected to the chairs of a carnival ride, turning the machine into a giant plotter.
Hand gestures transcoded as time by Cut Chemist, expanding turntablism into simultaneous video and audio manipulation.
Daito Manabe and Satoshi Horii have written a patch for transcoding wiimote gestures into visual and audio control signals simultaneously.
Supposedly both Nietzsche and Seraphim Rose wrote by candlelight (and Nietzsche with a retinal infection). Yet other philosophers have written in daylight, and still others have not needed to write at all.
We're encouraged when we hear stories about overcoming adversity, but romanticizing those journeys can lead to an unnecessary desire for their means(and a lack of appreciation for their ends). Not everyone needs candlelight to understand themselves.
Anita Lillie's project Visualizing Music transcodes audio signals into a 12-pitch chromatic scale. Volume/intensity are mapped to brightness and color to timbral properties (similar sounds are colored similarly).
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