Rhythm - Ryan Raffa

Rhythm
Ryan Raffa
Thesis Studio, Fall 2010
Instructor: Scott Pobiner/Louisa Campbell
Research: Technical Module
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Overview
Sound
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Prototype
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My thesis in general
Rhythm is a creative investigation using sound to reveal
the relationships within ourselves, between each other,
and the environments that surround us.
Questions:
What are our weaknesses to technology?
What is rhythm?
How does rhythm and technology affect us?
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Sound Production and Perception
• Sound is a traveling wave
that is an oscillation of
pressure transmitted
through all forms of
matter: gases, liquids,
solids, and plasmas.
• It is the sound pressure
rather than the actual
physical intensity of the
wave which our eardrums
react to.
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Elements of Sound
• Timbre
• Sound source location
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Analog to digital
• Pulse-Code Modulation
- Sample Rate (frequency)
- Bit Depth (dynamic range)
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Rhythm and science
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Prototype #1
• My sleeping patterns matched
with the sunrise and sunset.
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What is rhythm?
• movement or procedure with uniform or patterned
recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
• Keywords: movement, process/procedure, recurrence
• What is missing is the word “perception”.
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Rhythm and the visual
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Rhythm and notation
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Rhythm and the physical
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Rhythm as weapon
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Next Steps
• What’s my next module?
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Resources
"Christiaan Huygens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Christiaan_Huygens (accessed September 8, 2010).
Johnson, Steven. The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, V. 5.). 1 ed. New York:
Routledge, 2001.
Maur, Karin Von. The Sound of Painting: Music in Modern Art (Pegasus Library). New York: Prestel, 1999.
Module, Proportion, Symmetry, Rhythm (Vision + Value Series). New York: George Braziller, 1966.
Ochsner, Robert S.. Rhythm and Writing. Albany: Whitston Publishing Company, 1989.
"Rhythm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm (accessed
September 18, 2010).
Rowe, Robert. Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing. First edition. ed. London: The Mit Press, 1992.
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