Name: 【TED】Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!) (Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!))
Uploaded: 2017-01-05T01:19:51.000Z
Duration: 10 min 1 s
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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

that has led me to the hobby of sound visualization,

and, on occasion, has led me to play with fire.

This is a Rubens' tube. It's one of many I've made over the years,

is some lab tubing, and it's connected to this tank

So, let's fire it up and see what it does.

It's okay to applaud the laws of physics,

is the energy from the sound via the air and gas molecules

is influencing the combustion properties of propane,

and we can see the alternating regions of compression

So let's change the frequency of the sound,

So every time we hit a resonant frequency we get a standing wave

It's very similar to a Rubens' tube, and it's also used

for visualizing the physical properties of sound,

Okay. Now, while the table comes up to pressure,

let me note here that the sound is not traveling

in perfect lines. It's actually traveling in all directions,

and the Rubens' tube's a little like bisecting those waves

with a line, and the flame table's a little like

and it can show a little more subtle complexity, which is why

I like to use it to watch Geoff Farina play guitar.

some of the eigenmodes, but also you may have seen

Actually, a lot of things are better with fire in my world,

technology allows us to present sound to the eyes

in ways that accentuate the strength of the eyes

for seeing sound, such as the removal of time.

So here, I'm using a rendering algorithm to paint

the frequencies of the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

as a single visual impression, and the technique

will also show the strengths of the visual cortex

So if I show you another song off this album,

and another, your eyes will easily pick out

the use of repetition by the band Nirvana,

and in the frequency distribution, the colors,

and here is the entire album as a single visual impression,

and I think this impression is pretty powerful.

and I remind you that this is "Smells Like Teen Spirit,"

you can probably correctly guess, without listening

a die hard Nirvana fan would enjoy is this song,

The songs are a little similar, but mostly

I'm just interested in the idea that someday maybe

we'll buy a song because we like the way it looks.

And the sounds you're hearing came from eight

microphones attached to obstacles around the park,

all the tricks start with a very distinct slap,

and tricks on the rail will ring out like a gong, and

voices occupy very unique frequencies in the skate park.

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【TED】Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!) (Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!))

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