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FFT lecture #3
Went into greater detail than last week, including aspects such as: spectral leakage, short-time-fourier tranform, windowing, ovelap-and-add, and finally using the Max PFFT object to achieve automated windowing. Assignment this week involves…
October 16, 2006 -
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EE linkup
Have been introduced to Norman Cornett (Electronics) and Jim Knox (Plastics). This will be useful in the fabrication of interfaces.
October 12, 2006 -
Embodiment papers
Links to the embodiment papers:Andy Clark, ‘Embodiment: From Fish to Fantasy’Rodney Brooks, ‘Intelligence Without Representation’David Lee, ‘How Movement is Guided’Alva Noe, ‘The Enactive Approach to Perception: An Introduction’
October 12, 2006 -
Monday Meeting
Things to be done this week:1) Read embodied mind material for fridays reading group.2) Set up blog for the group.3) Continue honing project description/proposal.4) Possibly develop a musical demo for Alex’s inertia…
October 9, 2006 -
Musical Applications of Fourier Theory
Attended the second lecture on musical applications of fourier theory. Started by discussing a Christopher Penrose piece called “Fraud”. As I missed the first lecture I hadn’t heard the whole work. Need…
October 9, 2006 -
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Reading material
“Being there” by Andy Clark.“Action in Perception” by Alva Noe. Books about enactive perception and the embodied mind.
October 6, 2006 -
Trevor Wishart
Saw a concert by Trevor Wishart in the Sonic Lab (crazy surround sound – there are 64 channels of audio that completely surround you). He played two pieces, the first “Imago” was…
October 5, 2006 -
First PhD meeting
First meeting in the SARC PhD lab. Tasks for this week:1) Start an annotated bibliography, probably using endnote.2) Write a one page abstract, to start clarifying what my PhD project will actually…
October 4, 2006
