Hemmelig Tempo @ Kino Borealis.
A Visual Dissertation of Hemmelig Tempo, the dissertation work of Dr.
Pixel in the department of visual research and latency, will be screened
in the Kino Borealis programme during the Borealis festival in Bergen
on Wed March 10th at Landmark. Professor Waffel (who is currently
shovelling snow on a rooftop somewhere in the Arctic north) and Doktor
Døv (who is currently touring the country with small puppets) are both
deeply sorry they won´t attend such an important historic event. The
resarch group hope to persuade Professor Fokuda to attend the screening
and provide a full report of the electrifying event.
The screening will take place at wednesday from 13 at Landmark.
No other useful information is currently available other than the Borealisfestival website:
http://borealisfestival.no/2010/news/kino_borealis/
Doktor Døv: Temperature.
Nature may be ruthless. Yet, it may be difficult to observe how
elements that belong in extreme landscapes are affected by this. Only
when an external object is introduced into this kind of setting, its'
vulnerability is revealed. Doktor Døv set out to examine how sound
behaves in various climatic settings. What is the effect of climate
and temperature on sound and the subjective experience of sound? How
is sound developed, amplified and experienced in different
metereological settings?
Doktor Døv - Temperature from hemmelig tempo on Vimeo.
Always inquisitive, Doktor Døv started the experiment with two sound
sources: a metallic music box and a space phone, investigating
different materials and constructions. The latter instrument consists
of two plastic cones with a steel spring between them. These
instruments were transported to Sahara, Marocco (+40 degrees celsius),
Tjeldstø outside of Bergen (0 degrees celsius) and Statsallmenningen
close to Finse (-40 degrees celsius) and recorded with condensator
microphones. The difference in timbre was larger than Doktor Døv had
anticipated, but he concluded that it was nexessary to conduct further
experiments to establish a general pattern.
Preliminary results suggest that deep frequencies (below 2000 Hz) are
affected to a higher degree than high frequent sounds the lower the
temperature drops, while the scenario is opposite when the same
frequencies are exposed to high temperatures. Is this really the case?
Is this normal, and why? These questions troubled the young
scientist's already fragile mind. Are there places or sounds that
deviate from this pattern? Theoretically sound will behave differently
when exposed to different temperatures. Doktor Døv discovered that a
sound wave which moves at 300 oscillations per second (300 Hz) in -40
degrees celsius moves in 364 Hz in +40 degrees celsius. This
represents a deviation of 64 oscillations per second, which is
absolutely audible. It is more than likely that there are experiments
and theoretical calculations that support this observations, but it is
highly unlikely that Doktor Døv has ever read any of them.
As for material response to temperature, it is clear that different
materials change with temperature. Which materials are capable of
enduring extreme settings? Doktor Døv wanted the sound source to
generate a similar sound, no matter which environment it was placed
in. In this way, he wanted to ensure that it was the timbre, not the
instrument that was affected - only then an authentic temperated sound
may be produced. Humidity also place a part, but has relatively little
effect on the speed of sound. Doktor Døv suspects that temperature is
the major factor. Incidentally, he was born and raised in Bergen.
Four Unlikely Trios:
Hemmelig Tempo - 4 Unlikely Trios from hemmelig tempo on Vimeo.
The PONG Seminar, September 3rd 2009.
Hemmelig Tempo - Tournament 6 Pong TV-Game Seminar from hemmelig tempo on Vimeo.
Research Report;
Present: Professor Waffel, Doktor Døv and Professor Fokuda-san.
At considerable cost, Professor Waffel arrived in Bergen by aeroplane on September 3rd to attend a long overdue research seminar at the Institution. The contents of the professor’s luggage proved to be of great interest at the airport security check, in particular the function of the W5 Secret Bird-Oscillator. Quote one of the security officers: “I don’t particularly like what I observe on my screen here”.
However, it was another device, a Tournament 6 PONG TV-game that caught the primary attention of the professor’s colleagues at the Institution. In 1951, a young TV engineer by the name of Ralph Bear designed a TV that enabled people to play ball and paddle games on them. However, the concept was not introduced to the general public until 1971. Entering into millions of homes across the globe during the 1970’s, PONG games were eventually out- competed by more sophisticated home computers in the early 1980’s. Nevertheless, in May 2009, Professor Waffel was able to acquire a PONG at E-bay.com/ww.com/com.org for a moderate price.
An ad-hoc test laboratory was promptly set up at the Institution, routing the PONG console through Professor Fokuda-san’s mixer with 6 separate auxillary inputs. In the absence of Doktor Pixel, who was still recovering from bowel problems and a chronic latency syndrome, Doktor Døv quickly took responsibility for visual documentation, while Professor Waffel demonstrated the general functions of the PONG console. It had been rumoured that the incident at the airport had given the professor slightly better communication skills, but this was not verified during the research session.
Obtaining considerable experience with manipulating the PONG ball into orbits between the two paddles, the research team were able to generate complex rhythmical meters to be modulated beyond recognition by Professor Fokuda’s auxillary effect line up. Meanwhile, fearing that the attention thus given to the activities occurring on the TV- screen would upset the general ecological balance of the Universe, Doktor Døv proceeded to experiment heavily on his transistor radio. By routing NRK through an LFO he obtained some disturbing results. But that was to be expected from Doktor Døv, after all
The long awaited PhD dissertation from dr. Pixel.
We refer to the application dated August 20th 2009. While the dissertation is long overdue, the committee has evaluated the dissertation and found it to be of sufficient merit to warrant a doctoral degree at the Department of Visual Research, Hemmelig Tempo. Congratulations.
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