"Machine Listening" is the idea that computers can be programmed to interpret audio signals the same way humans do.
The Echo Nest's music intelligence platform, which was created by two MIT Media Lab PhD students, intelligently interprets audio signals and can tell when a song belongs to the blues genre rather than a techno genre.
Bentzen describes the surreal imagery as a mystery—"is he being born, dying or is he just dreaming?" Bentzen has a unique method of interpreting the audio.
Called 20 Hz, the film was created using data interpreted as audio, collected by CARISMA from a geomagnetic storm caused by a solar wind (whose rumblings you can hear in the vid), which took place in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
There were also issues related to low voice volume in some participants, resulting in difficulty in transcribing and interpreting the audio-taped data.
The show itself is a multi-layered tapestry in which live action, captioned dialogue, British sign language-interpreted songs and audio descriptiona come together in a glorious hotch-potch.
Filmmakers Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt used data collected from the CARISMA radio array as a geomagnetic storm occurred in the Earth's upper atmosphere and interpreted it as audio.
The animated images, produced by photographer Nick Ballon and artist Alma Haser, interpret the haunting audio, in which the children and their family members talk about how the war has made them feel.
The lighting fixtures are linked to a device that interprets signals from an audio CD, DVD movie or video game to create visual effects that are synchronized with the music or the movie or game.
Five existing alternative LP models were described, applied to tonal audio signals, and interpreted in terms of relieving the tradeoff inherent in the conventional LP model.
