Slavery in New York, 1651

As a telephone artist presenting two 60 second audio tour segments in Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost (PSG), Sound Art and Historical Environment Project, November 15-19, 2006 [http://cityinasoundwalk.org/psg/], I propose the following research for your critical review.

My Premise and audio segment individuals:
- Dutch colonial slave woman sings a lullaby to her mishttp://www.imp3search.com/download2.htm?name=bull&email=bull@el.nettress' baby.
- Dutch colonial field slave sings West African chants while he hoes the Great Bowerie.


Slave Songs of the United States - lyrics
NegroSpirituals.com - lyrics
African Music on the Internet Stanford.edu
** inspiration ** http://www.kizomba.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/music/Jim_Star_tarraxinha_remix.mp3
*
http://www.kizomba.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/music/philipe_monteiro_total_mix.mp3
http://www.kizomba.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/music/Sukhwinder_Sing&Sapna%20Awasti_chaiyya_chaiyya.mp3
The Embassy of Angola U.K. site also has kizomba music
and a web site based in Toronto, Canada is CanalAngola.net
Music Research Institute is a non-profit educational institution founded in 1984. Dr. Cynthia Tse Kimberlin is Executive Director. Its MRI Press publishes the series, Intercultural Music, Chaka, an opera in two chants composed by Akin Euba, from an epic poem by Leopold Sedar Senghor, and the bulletin, Intercultural Musicology, edited by Cynthia Tse Kimberlin and Akin Euba. Based in Point Richmond, CA. http://www.music-research-inst.org/
Google 20061108 "ethnomusicology"
Contemporary Angolan musicians - Wikipedia - no audio snips
Capoeira Angola Palmares of Seattle / Midwest U.S.A.
Capoeira Angola - Wikipedia music/movement art form based on Angolan slave traditions
BBC - Leicester World on Your Street - Paulo Carnoth of Angola
African Roots of Latin Music Project at CUNY
African Studies Center | Angola Page - upenn.edu
HumanSongs.com Resources and Links
Angola Music Links

Bonga is the master of Angolan music
Paz em Angola by BONGA (Barceloe Carvalho) CD K-A592p NYPL - contemporary sound

Special thank you to research assitance from Harvey G. Lehtman and Douglas Andrew Inglis

NN International Excercise VODCAST TITLES

Below is the specification for the MTV-like VODCAST TITLES that shall appear at the dead of the vodcast for 5 seconds and then fade out in each of the NN International Excercise Vodcasts. This might be of primary interest to the DIY teams.

- format -

"theme name"
Artist, first, names
Neighborhood Narratives
Temple University

- a NN instructor's vodcast might read -

"Home + Work = Life"
Hana, Steve, Ron, Siobhan, David
Neighborhood Narratives
Temple University

- a New-York Historical Society example -

NN International Excercise VODCAST SPECS

For any team of the International Excercise that wants to make their own vodcast here is the VODCAST SPECIFICATION that I intend to follow with submitted student files. I am using Final Cut Pro HD 4.5 with file > export > Using Quick Time Conversion > MPEG-4 (mp4)

MPEG 4 settings
General
Video Track: Improved
Size: 320x240
Audio Track: Music
Video
Improved
~980 kbits/second
fps: 30.0
key frame 24 frames
Audio
Music
~100 kbits/second
Channels: Stereo
Output sample Rate: Recommended
Endcodinf Quality: Better
Streaming
Hinting type: None
Maximum packet size: 1450 bytes
Maximum packet duration: 100 ms
Compatability
Type: None
Internet connection speed: Any

And Quicktime Movie Info reports these specs when playing my finished vodcasts:

MPEG-4 Audio, Stereo, 44100 Hz
MPEG-4 Video, 320x240, Millions
Data Rate: 95.7 K bytes/sec
Normal Size: 320 x 240 pixels

PS: I am new to vodcasting with a few vodcasts produced for the New-York Historical Society and I would appreciate hearing from you about different, better or more practical mp4 specifications.

Thank you, Steve[at]ctlss.com

NN International Excercise RULES, 2006 Fall

The International Exercise
"Put yourself in the picture, in the place."

1. Students are formed into an international team (one London student, one Philadelphia, one Tokyo). Some students in London and Tokyo are members on more than one team to give each Philadelphia student a team. London and Tokyo students, I thank you for your extra effort.

2. Students introduce themselves by email.

3. The team decides on an orientation/topic to pick for the photos of themselves in the city, see suggested list below.

4. Each student on each team must submit 4 pictures of themselves in the city in the context of the orientation/topic

5. Each student provides 10 seconds of audio commentary that covers all 4 pictures.

6. The team collaboratively decides the presentation order of their audio/photo collage i.e London/Tokyo/Philadelphia or Tokyo/Philadelphia/London et cetera or a mashup if the team desires.

7. Each team submits as their final 12 photos + 30 sec. of audio to Steve Bull (steve[[at]]ctlss.com) with CC: your individual instructors.

8. Steve Bull will turn each team submission into an image montage (video) podcast.

9. Neighborhood Narratives will have an international set of 18 (or so) 30 sec. podcasts totaling 9 minutes.

10. Exercise due: Nov. 7.

ORIENTATION/TOPICs
Food
Game Centers
Bars & Pubs
Transportation (trains and/or buses)
Community Sports
Architecture
Sentos (public baths or saunas/spas)
Interior Design
Fashion
Hip-Hop
Graffiti
Music
Convenient Stores
Street Performances
Music
Foreign Cuisine
Junk Food
Homeless

NN International Excersise TEAM LIST, 2006 Fall

Team "alpha"
Timothy McDermott, Benjamin Brandau, Tyler Haywood

Team "beta"
Andrew Garraway, Michael Giambra, Cheryl Jenkins

Team "gamma"
Danielle Buxbaum, Jessica Akiya, Kane Albarron

Team "delta"
Zachary Cunningham, Michael Giambra, Kali Karagias

Team "epsilon"
Michelle Doner, Mariko Hashimoto, Justin 'Ephie' Weldon

Team "zeta"
Meghan Gunning, Matthew Hein, Tyler Haywood

Team "eta"
Lana Herman, Goro Ikeda, Kaitlin Reinbold

Team "theta"
Andrew James McGinley, Ken Ishii, Keith Gettle

Team "iota"
Stephanie Matush, Yasuka Kase, Kevin Krutz

Team "kappa"
Timothy McDermott, David Kellom, Caitlin Davis

Team "lamda"
Andrew Garraway, Takuro Maruyama, James McClung

Team "mu"
Danielle Buxbaum, Nicholas Palmigiano, Karin Wolok

Team "nu"
Zachary Cunningham, Mari Saito, Robert Lukasik

Team "xi"
Michelle Doner, Mihailo Tanasijevic, Nick Duroy

Team "omikron"
Meghan Gunning, Benjamin Brandau, Ahmad Miller

Team "pi"
Lana Herman, Jessica Akiya, Aaron 'Dell' Booker

Team "rho"
Andrew James McGinley, Mariko Hashimoto, Lisa Laydon

Team "sigma"
Stephanie Matush, Matthew Hein, Josh Clough

Team "tau"
Timothy McDermott, Goro Ikeda, Adam Russell

NN Assignment: Put Something Here MOBILE

1. An event/activity Put Something Here MOBILE
2. Documentation of 1.

Documentation no more than 5 minutes, less is good.

Due: Tuesday, October 24, 2006.

Notes:
Mobile intervetion in the city.
Putting something into motion.

Design a Critical Solution for the Neighborhood

Assignment due Oct. 17, 2006, Neighborhood Narratives
http://neighborhoodnarratives06fall.blogspot.com/

Design a critical solution for the neighborhood and post on your blog. Expressing yoiur design in text is an option, sketches and/or photographs illuminating, audio interesting, video is another presentation form....

This is based on the proposal of the Homeless Vehicle by Wodiczko as presented in the reading/handout -- and here's a link: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007768.php
or google: 'wodiczko critical vehicle' to find other links.

However, don't take this assignment literally! Wheeling a vehicle into class would be okay, but the assignment is more about brainstorming a design approach to the issues raised by Wodiczko, such as 'memory of the nameless' and 'tradition of the vanquished' and 'everyday a new history needs to be written...announced by the stranger' et al

Ringtone Pursuits

Yes, I'm probably getting tangled providing user generated ringtones. Sign my NDA if you want more details. In the meantime, follow me down a path to get a ringtone by an industry standard method.....

STEP ONE
I open my SquirrelMail email browser to discover the usual spam with gleams of gold of email I want to read. One subject line in a slice-o-spam grabs my attention, "Get todays best ringtones for your phone" and I open the email to discover a girl-in-a bikini gif animation and the following text: Unsubscribe Here
wehaveit4u.com
402-612 Boleskine Rd.
Victoria, BC
Canada
V8Z 1E8

END OF EMAIL
Note:) In the faint text that indicates writing a letter to Hong Kong might stop this daily email....

STEP TWO
So I click thru to open a new browser window at http://www.ringtonejamjam.com/106/index.php?s= where I find the same pretty girl in another bikini and instructions and TERMS AND CONDITIONS to download a complimentary ringtone. I'm a little suspicious ;) because the complimentary ringtone seems to require a subscription.
Here is the web page:



END of PART TWO

Sequential order of company/URL involvement in above two step scheme:
"Ringtone JAMJAM"
Ringtonejamjam P.O. Box 89252, Kowloon City Post Office, Hong Kong
wehaveit4u.com, 402-612 Boleskine Rd., Victoria, BC, Canada V8Z 1E8
customercare@funmobile.com

I'm through with this research step. Now that I re-read the language and detail within the T-n-C and I don't think I'll be getting that complimentary ringtone for $19.99/month. I now proceed to follow up on Sales Hunt proposal, finishing more vodcasts for the recently released New-York Historical Society cell phone / iPod tours, and delve into a cost analysis of my diverse portfolio of art and product.

PS: Forgive the chopped up images above, alas an artifact of copying code from one source into another.

PPS: 2006.12.02 I killed the webpages and images as they were actively seeking their masters...

NN20060919: Psychogeography

Psychogeography is "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals," according to Guy Debord's Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

Essay - http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/2

Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography

by Guy-Ernest Debord

---

Of all the affairs we participate in, with or without interest, the groping search for a new way of life is the only aspect still impassioning. Aesthetic and other disciplines have proved blatantly inadequate in this regard and merit the greatest detachment. We should therefore delineate some provisional terrains of observation, including the observation of certain processes of chance and predictability in the streets.

The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a few of us were investigating around the summer of 1953, is not too inappropriate. It does not contradict the materialist perspective of the conditioning of life and thought by objective nature. Geography, for example, deals with the determinant action of general natural forces, such as soil composition or climatic conditions, on the economic structures of a society, and thus on the corresponding conception that such a society can have of the world. Psychogeography could set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The adjective psychogeographical, retaining a rather pleasing vagueness, can thus be applied to the findings arrived at by this type of investigation, to their influence on human feelings, and even more generally to any situation or conduct that seems to reflect the same s pirit of discovery.

continued at http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/2

NN20060919: Rashômon (1950)

Rashômon (1950)
In 12th century Japan, a samurai and his wife are attacked by the notorious bandit Tajomaru, and the samurai ends up dead. Tajomaru is captured shortly afterward and is put on trial, but his story and the wife's are so completely different that a psychic is brought in to allow the murdered man to give his own testimony. He tells yet another completely different story. Finally, a woodcutter who found the body reveals that he saw the whole thing, and his version is again completely different from the others. - Summary written by rmlohner
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Cast:
Toshirô Mifune .... Tajômaru
Machiko Kyô .... Masako
Masayuki Mori .... Takehiro
Takashi Shimura .... Woodcutter
Minoru Chiaki .... Priest
Kichijiro Ueda .... Commoner
Fumiko Honma .... Medium
Daisuke Katô .... Policeman
Runtime: 88 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Color: Black and White

Play SLEUTH Saturday 9/26/2006 in NYC

I've been spending time developing the GPS game SLEUTH for the Come Out And Play Festival 2006 [comeoutandplay.org] in New York City. The winning players get FREE beer tickets. Whoopie!

When: The festival will run from September 22-24, 2006. Games will occur throughout the day in locations around the city. See the schedule of games for more details about events.

Where: While games will run in locations around the city, the festival headquarters will be hosted by the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, located at Eyebeam at 540 W. 21st Street, New York, NY. Stop by the headquarters during the festival for information and to see game updates.

I receive great pleasure designing with my fellow collaborators: Joshua Klein, Joshua Knowles and Kalin Mintchev.

This is a shameless self-promotional post and if you've gotten this far then I thank you for reading it.

T-Shirt Images 1st Assignment

Find them here: flickr.com/groups/t-shirtmaps

KENYA in December 2006

I'm traveling to Nairobi and Lamu Island in Kenya, December 14-29, 2006 with my son Frank as a trailing spouse to Terese Svoboda [TereseSvoboda.com], faculty with the Summer Literary Seminars [sumlitsem.org] program. I'm starting to get excitied about my first trip to Africa.

Some links for further review:
Lamu Island is Kenya's oldest living town. There are no cars so donkeys are the main means of transport. Until the 19th century dawned, Lamu's economy was slave labour. - go2africa.com/Kenya/east-coast/lamu-island
Lamu Island is a part of the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya. ... The island prospered on the slave trade. After defeating Pate Island in the nineteenth century, ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamu_Island
Kenya Association of Tour Operators (KATO) - katokenya.org
Nairobi Safari Walk - kws.org/nsw.html
BOOK IT ON THE SPOT, An African Safari - Budget Travel Online

Cellphonia: San Jose - SAMPLES Code

SAMPLES will be within comments.

Links to other samples below:

Cellphonia: San Jose - RESEARCH C-Sound

CSOUND
http://kevindumpscore.com/docs/csound-manual/ - The Alternative Csound Reference Manual

http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/music/elmus/em99/csintro.htm#Using%20Csound%20as%20a%20mixer- Using Csound as a mixer

JAVA
Concatenating or mixing audio files
Purpose. This program reads multiple audio files and writes a single one either containing the data of all the other ...
www.jsresources.org/examples/AudioConcat.html

Cellphonia: San Jose - DATABASE

DATABASE to meet GOAL of FLOW:
1. There is NO database
2. SongID + CallerID + DateTimeStamp = file naming convention for server to look up and create streaming 24/7 playback of opera

SongID
p1 = pool '1' of caller contributions at http://cellphone.el.net/p1/
p2 = pool '2' of caller contributions at http://cellphone.el.net/p2/
p3 = pool '3' of caller contributions at http://cellphone.el.net/p3/
p4 = pool '4' of caller contributions at http://cellphone.el.net/p4/
p5 = pool '5' of caller contributions at http://cellphone.el.net/p5/
p6 = pool '6' of caller contributions at http://cellphone.el.net/p6/

[p0 = pool '0' of Asterisk VoIP files for at http://cellphone.el.net/p0/]

CallerID + DateTimeStamp
for example
2123889121 is CallerID
20060626 is date stamp
215720 is time stamp
of
p00-20060626-215720-2123889121.wav, a typical named file of 1st phrase of libretto of a caller recorded on Asterisk server at cellphone.el.net/

More details to follow.....

Cellphonia: San Jose - TASKS

TASKS to meet GOAL of FLOW:
1. Present local interesting newsworthy karaoke libretto to telephone caller.
2. Acquire caller vocal contribution from phone call.
3. Playback 24/7 streaming opera mix of caller contributions.
4. [Lower priority] Allow callers to retrieve their song as a later time/date.

Details to follow.....

Cellphonia: San Jose - FLOW

FLOW presented in posts: GOAL, TASKS, DATABASE, PLAN, WEB PAGES, MARKETING/PROMOTION, FESTIVAL, AFTERWARDS

Also: RESEARCH

ZeroOne San Jose (01sj.org): A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006)
AUGUST 7-13, 2006

Cellphonia: San Jose
Steve Bull
Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Tim Perkis
Kalin Mintchev

Cellphonia: San Jose - GOAL

GOAL
Cellphonia: San Jose - Audio art to entertain and inform community of users durring ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006) AUGUST 7-13, 2006.

audio = cell phone, phone, VoIP, Asterisk, streaming playback, MP3, C-Sound
art = installation, opera, song(s), not making money
entertain = performance, streaming playback to audience
inform = current events, local news, stories interest to festival visitors
community = San Jose, symposium visitors
durring = only works in place at time of symposium, some archive of opera

Hot-n-Cold Engines Check

Although I'm navigating at this moment from Room 413 at TUCC, I thought I'd check my Hot-n-Cold engines behind http://azones.com/hnc/ to be sure that they're running smoothly. I started a new game as HOST that produced the following map. This is the HQ of what famous university: Lat 39.980319, Long -75.157292 ?

Trophies

Jefferson Lochridge Bull and Stephen Medaris Bull pose at their father's request to document some of the one design sail boat racing trophies that they had won. The sail emblem denotes the Wood Pussy class. Most of the one design regattas took place in the bays near the Shelter Island Yacht Club, New York.