User:Lu Fang


 * Name: Deer Fang
 * E-mail: luufang@yahoo.com
 * MSN: luufang@yahoo.com


 * What, no website??? --Jon

Project 1
9/11/05

Suffocation Generator (let it be the title for now)

This project involves programing. Users will go onto the project website, and use a microphone to submit a sentence of their speak to the website. Then computer will base on their submitted voice to generate an audio clip of that person's sexual moaning.

There will possibly have 2 phases of constructing the project:

1. The foremost task is analyzing sexual moaning. From some sampling, generalize principles of this kind of sound, such as the tone, length, speed and the break down. And concludes this analyzing process by come up a group of words, or better a sentence that can contain the basic phonetic sounds of sexual moaning. And as they are spoke by different users and submitted to the computer, they become the sources material for the generator.

2. Create a programing language that can generate artificial moaning. The result of the first phase provides parameter for the program. The program can break down a sentence to fragments, recombine these fragments using the parameter and finally generate a version of artificial moaning. It will also use random programing, which will allow user to submit their voice once and obtain multiple results. (to be continued)



If it is true that as Foucault said, sexuality had been restrained and hypocritical since Victorian period, will cyberspace be the relieving platform for the sexual repression? Pornography became the major business on internet, which probably wasn't expectable for internet creators. In this anonymous world obscenity is legitimate. Internet's property-- anonymous and sharing makes Internet pornography more revolt than other form of pornography like magazine or theater. Therefore this project will ideally take place online.

There have been all means to on visual provocation, and therefore there are all means of banning on sexual images; there also have been strict rules on language, certain terms we are shame to use, or will be deleted on public occasion. What about sound? In a sexual affair sound is such affected but most likely be neglected by us, or we are already molded to be mute and deaf? Magnificent sound everyone can make when undergoing the wonderful moment of sex. If one had never know he/she can make one, I want this project can generate one, and even many different ones. But will we be ashamed to hear our own voice to making the sound of sexual moaning?



Case History study on sex moaning from internet homemade porn. Instead of record sex moaning from people, the project will research on internet resources. Pornography is part of the internet fantasy. One of the main online activity is downloading and uploading porn. The availability of online sharing becomes an availability of virtually sharing sex partners. It is a form that will naturally take place in the repressive sex culture. It nurtures various types of sex activities from anonymous individuals.

Couple 1

Material info: one Asian woman and a European man. This sampling has very wild woman moaning. She's a very skinny, tight woman, very sexual unforgettable looking. Her moaning is dramatic and sounds like crying, a lot of heavy breathing. Male has not much moaning except heavy breathing. There are a few words he said to the woman.

Phonetic sounds:

ho - like ho in "hope"

e-like e in "earth", long

he-like he in "her", long

a - like a in "are", continuously several short ones and aspirate in the end

Woman 1

Material info: Two teenage, an immature porn, has decent quality of a girl sound.

phonetic sounds:

h- like h in "hi", long

e- like e in "earth", short

e-hhhhh-e-hhhhh-e-hhhhh

m- like m in "mine", long and short

a - like a in "are"

ha-like ha in "half"

aaa-ha

our- like our in tour

ourrr-h

Threesome 1

Material info: Teenage Porn. two girls and one boy. Besides woman moaning, there are good amount of male moaning can be heard in this clip.

Phonetic Sounds:

aa-hhhh (aa-hhh sound with different pitch and length on aa part)

ha- (only aspirate air, lis to threesome1-ha)

mm- (threesome1-m2 is a high pitch mm)

our -

Threesome2

Material info: 1 girl 2 men. The woman moaning is mix with the male ones.

Phonetic Sounds:

all-

a - like a in "are"

e-

ha-like ha in "half"

aaa-ha

ee-hhh

m-

Sound Conclusion: ə həː həu aː ha ɔː m uə

e = earth

he = her

ho = hope

a = are

ha = half

all = all

m = mine

our = tour

Research
Sound Generators on the Market: Sleep Sound Generator http://www.hammacher.com/publish/60586.asp?source=google&keyword=sound%20machine&cm_ven=NewGate&cm_cat=Google&cm_pla=Creative%20Test&cm_ite=sound%20machine These machines either sythenize sounds or use a undetectable recorded looping sound. They are advertised as "recommended by doctors for their patients, by mothers for their children, by professional people for their office..."

The Reproductive Anachronism - a project commend on reproductive sexuality and the intervenetion of modern sciences. http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/sra/SRAweb/index.html

9/28/05 Sound Artist presentation - Steve Reich
 * Brief Biography of Steve Reich "Reich was born in New York in 1936. He graduated from Cornell University with honours in Philosophy in 1957 and studied composition at the Juillard School of Music from 1958 to 1961. He then attended Mills College in California where he studied with Milhaud and Berio, receiving his M.A. in music in 1963. In 1970 he studied drumming with a master drummer of the Ewe tribe at the Institute of African Studies in Ghana. During 1973 and 1974 he studied Balinese Gamelan Music at the American Society for Eastern Arts in Berkeley, California."


 * Note on Research
 * System music: sound continuums which evolve gradually, often over very long periods of time
 * Related composers: Philip Glass, and La Monte Young
 * Avoid climax, directionality
 * Create compositional process in the auditory result
 * The pyschological aspect of the listenning
 * Simple mechanic method create random results


 * links http://www.stevereich.com/ http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/articles/reich.html

What experience do you have with sound software and what kind?
I did some basic sound editing in Final Cut pro for my videos. (and a bit of Sound Editing)

What experience do you have with programming and what kind?
Launghed two flash websites.

What do you know and how interested are you in Free Culture, Open Source, and Programming?
great, I think they are the most efficient and democratic forces.

What kind of experience with building speakers and external sound hardware do you have?
I can plug a headphone to a device, so that the frequency can go straight to my ears.

What type of installations / performances have you done?
I do performance videos. I perform for the camera, and direct small group of people perform for the camera like I do.

Which aspects of audio interest you? (recording / performance / sound installations...)
Sound is as important as optical image for any time base media. so I am interested in all (recording / performance / sound installations...)

Do you play an instrument and what is the instrument(s)?
no, I failed in learning piano as a kid, and never attempt again.

What do you want to get out of this class?
I want to explore and be critical about the sound in my work. (is it ok? or do we have to make "sound art" work?)

Do you take another sound class this semester and what is its name?
No...

What kind of music are you into? Art, pop, whatever...
ambient, rock music, and woman vocal with screaming, male vocal that's rough and broken.

What field trips would you like? (studio)
Alcatraz Island in a good afternoon.

What is your secret weapon?
it's as advertised on TV