Tim Blackwell
ABSTRACT
This paper describes the tech-tile project: an exploration of visual and sonic texture enabled by a mapping of textile images into sound. The mapping from a rectangular element (a tile) of an image onto a sonic event is explained, and it is demonstrated that the result gives interesting and distinctive sonic textures and preserves, in part, the visual structure of the image. An entire image can be converted to a single tech-tile, which can be performed as a composition, or a swarm of small tiles can fly over the image, generating a sonic improvisation.
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- Tech-tiles: exploring texture
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