Computer-generated music - Computer-generated music Computer-generated music is music composed by, or with the extensive aid of, a computer. Although any music which uses computers in its composition or realisation is computer-generated to some extent, the use of computers is now so widespread (in the editing of pop songs, for instance) that the phrase computer-generated music is generally used to mean a kind of music which could not have been created without the use of computers. One of the first composers to write music with a computer was Iannis Xenakis. He wrote programs in the FORTRAN language which would automatically produce scores to be played by traditional musical instruments. An example is ST/48 of 1962. Later, composers such as Gottfried Michael Koenig had the computers generate the sounds of.
Computer-generated art - Computer-generated art Computer-generated art is art created with a computer. The term is usually appied to works created entirely with a computer. It is a subset of digital art. Movies make heavy use of computer-generated graphics; it is called computer-generated imagery (CGI) in the film industry. In the 1990s, and early 2000s CGI advanced enough so that for the first time it was possible to create realistic 3D computer animation. The film The Phantom Menace was widely noted for its heavy use of computer graphics. Some people argue that completely computer-generated art isn't really art at all, since computers can't really appreciate beauty. See the definition of art. The emerging answer seems to be that they makes a great paintbrush. A paintbrush makes no commentary about.
Computer music - Computer music Computer music is music generated with, or composed with the aid of, computers. Much of the work on computer music has drawn on the relationship between music theory and mathematics. See also: Electronic music Electronic musical instrument Electronic musical effect Electronic dance music MIDI Digital synthesizer Music sequencer Musical theory Audio signal processing CSound Chip Tunes Computer generated music.
Music of Ghana - Music of Ghana The most well-known form of Ghanaian music is highlife, which has become popular all across Africa and much of the rest of the world. Highlife arose among the coastal regions of Ghana and, to a lesser extent Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and other English-speaking West African colonies. In the 1920s, the word was coined to desribe the dancing of the English colonials to the regimented music of native bands. Eventually, the music, originally used only for military functions, began using native songs and kpanlogo rhythms. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Folk music 2 Highlife 2.1 Early split: guitar-bands and dance highlife 2.2 Mid-20th century and the invention of Ghanaian pop 2.2.1 Guitar-bands in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s 2.2.2 Dance highlife in.
Visual arts and design - can see, excluding performance. Such forms of art fall into other categories such as theater, music, or opera, although there is really no clear boundary; see body art and interactive art, for example, or consider film, and website art which can incorporate most other kinds of art. The following is a list of various subjects related to visual arts and design: Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Traditional visual arts 2 Artists 3 Design 4 History of the visual arts 5 Contemporary art 6 Body art 7 New Materials 8 See also Traditional visual arts (commonly called "fine arts") Batik Drawing Painting Sculpture Printmaking Photography Film Various arts and crafts, including ceramics and textile art Artists List of painters List of sculptors Design Architecture Commercial art (Visual Communication) Fashion design Graphic design.
John F. Kennedy assassination - shot less than one mile from Oswald's rooming house. The Warren Commission saw enough evidence to believe that Oswald shot Tippit at about 1:16 PM. The situation at Parkland Hospital had deteriorated. Even as the press contingent grew, a priest had been summoned for Kennedy, as a Catholic, so that Last Rites might be performed. It had become apparent to those inside the hospital that President Kennedy was already dead. Governor Connally, meanwhile, was in emergency surgery. According to the Warren Report, Lee Harvey Oswald had attempted to hide in the Texas Theatre at about 1:45 PM, doing so by ducking into the building without paying while the box office attendant was distracted. Police radio alerted nearby units to apprehend him as the suspected murderer of Patrolman Tippit. Fifteen officers in.
Jumpstart 3rd-6th Grade - For example, they all have the word "adventure" in their full title. The main differences are that they feature computer generated imagery, they all have plots where the user tries to thwart a villain and none of the main characters are talking animals (except for B. F. Skinny in Jumpstart 5th Grade.) =Jumpstart 3rd Grade= The game is set inside Mystery Mountain, a fictional mountain where an inventor, Professor Spark, has built a laboratory and home inside filled with Jetson-like inventions. The game is set when the Professor leaves to go on a trip to the Inventors' Convention and leaves the robot Botley, programed to be a combination of nanny and friend, in charge of keeping his bratty daughter Polly under control. At school that day, Polly fails a test on.
Hollywood Animation: The Renaissance - showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 1988 to present 1.1 The Return of Disney 1.2 Spielberg and Warner Bros. 1.3 Animation for Adults 1.4 The Decline of Saturday Morning 1.5 The rise of computer animation 1.6 Animation accolades 1988 to present The Return of Disney By the mid-1980s, the American animation industry had sunk to a decrepit state. Toy commercials masquerading as entertainment dominated the afternoon cartoon shows and Saturday morning cartoons, with the only experimentation and development in animation taking place in small, independent animated cartoons. Animated feature films still appeared occasionally in theaters, but the glory days of old had disappeared. Even giant Disney, which barely fought off a corporate takeover attempt in the 1980s, was considering abandoning the production of feature-length animated films. Film fans, audiences, critics, and animators alike were all.
Generative art - art Generative art is art or design generated, composed, or constructed through computer software algorithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical autonomous processes. The most common forms of generative art are graphics that visually represent complex processes, music, or language-based compositions like poetry. Other applications include architectural design, models for understanding sciences such as evolution, and artificial intelligence systems..
Great Renaming - all the existing groups. [1]. Alternative account points to the fact that European networks refused to pay for some of the discussion intensive groups regarding religion and racism, and generated a need for categorization of all such newsgroups. [1], [1] The suggested category for the newsgroups less popular among European networks was "talk." In either account, Rick Adams, is generally considered to be the one who initiated this. At that time, the newsgroups were categorized into three hierarchies: "fa." for groups for ARPANET, "mod." for moderated discussions, and "net." for unmoderated groups. Names of the groups were said to be rather haphazard. (see The Great Renaming FAQ.) The backbone providers, or the backbone cabal, were instrumental in this reorganization of Usenet since they had a great influence on supporting a new.
Digital art - art Digital art is art stored on a computer in digital (that is, binary) form. The term is usually reserved for art that has been non-trivially modifed by the computer; text data and raw audio and video recordings are not usually considered digital art, since the computer is merely the storage medium. Digital art can be purely computer-generated, such as fractals, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph or an image drawn using vector graphics software, using either a mouse or graphics tablet. The availability and popularity of photograph manipulation software has spawned a vast and creative library of highly modified images, many bearing little or no hint of the original image. Using electronic versions of brushes, filters and enlargers, these "Neographers" produce images unattainable through conventional photographic.
Data compression - compression Data compression, a fundamental topic of computer science, is the process of encoding data so that it takes less storage space or less transmission time than it would if it were not compressed. This is possible because most real-world data is very redundant or not most concisely represented in its obvious form. One very simple means of compression, for example, is run-length encoding, wherein large runs of consecutive identical data values are replaced by a simple code with the data value and length of the run. This is an example of lossless data compression, where the data is compressed in such a way that it can be recovered exactly. For symbolic data such as spreadsheets, text, executable programs, etc., losslessness is essential because changing even a single bit cannot be.
Audio data compression - users of lossless compression are audio engineers and those consumers who disdain the quality loss from lossy compression techniques such as Vorbis and MP3. First, the vast majority of sound recordings are natural sounds, recorded from the real world, and such data doesn't compress well. In a similar manner, photos compress less efficiently with lossless methods than computer-generated images do. But worse, even computer generated sounds can contain very complicated waveforms that present a challenge to many compression algorithms. This is due to the nature of audio waveforms, which are generally difficult to simplify without a (necessarily lossy) conversion to frequency information, as performed by the human ear. The second reason is that values of audio samples change very quickly, so generic data compression algorithms don't work well for audio, and.
Blood Simple - The film was lensed by Roger Deakins and originally released in 1984; it was re-released in 2001 in a "director's cut"; faux film historian "Mortimer Young" claims in an introduction to the rerelease that the Coens have removed some of "the boring bits" and added other parts. What the Coens actually did was to tighten the editing using the footage in the original film: shortening some shots and removing others altogether, as well as changing some of the music in the film. One example of changed music from the original VHS release is the removal of Neil Diamond's cover of The Monkees' "I'm a Believer" in favor of The Four Tops' "It's the Same Old Song." The commentary on the DVD release is by "Kenneth Loring," the fictional artistic director of.
Chip tune - Chip tune Chip Tunes are pices of music written to be performed by a (usually very basic) sound chip. The most common example is probably early computer game music or ringtones for mobile phones. There is also a substantial part of the mod scene (a community of people making music to be played on the Commodore Amiga or using tracker programs) making chip tunes, not for specific tone generating hardware but with the same feel to them. Generally they consist of basic waveforms, such as sine waves, square waves and sawtooth waves, and basic percussion, often generated from white noise going through an ADSR controlled amp. On the one hand, they can be an art form in their own right. On the other, if you listen for too long, you may.
The Art of Noise - of Noise was a pop group formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, music journalist Paul Morley, and session musicians / studio hands Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik, and Gary Langan. The group's mostly instrumental compositions were novel and often clever melodic sound collages based on digital sampling technology, which was new at the time. Inspired by turn-of-the-century revolutions in music, the Art of Noise was initially packaged as a faceless anti- or non-group, blurring the distinction between the art and its creators. The band is considered to be among the pioneers of electronic music. = Beginnings = In 1983, Trevor Horn, who had achieved a New Wave hit in 1981 with "Video Killed The Radio Star" which he recorded under the name The Buggles, was working in the studio with Yes.
The Dark Crystal - not appear (though some of the same voice actors are used). The Dark Crystal was made in the era between traditionally-animated feature films and later movies produced by computer-generated techniques. All characters in the movie are muppets, and none are based on humans or any other particular creature. The movie makes an attempt to study the nature of good and evil in terms of conscience, vital drive, and harmony. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. One thousand years before, "the crystal cracked" and separated godlike beings called Urskeks into hunchbacked, gentle orange beings known as Mystics and vulturelike, cruel bipedal beings known as Skeksis. The Skeksis drove the Mystics from the castle where the now-shattered crystal resided and instituted a reign of terror over their world. Their wrath is particularly directed toward the.
Stop motion - O'Brien, who animated King Kong. His student Ray Harryhausen made a number of movies with the same technique. More recently, stop motion has been used in the works of Aardman Animation, including the Wallace and Gromit films as well as their film Chicken Run. Aardman also produced commercials and music videos, notably the video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer", which uses a variant of stop motion called pixilation; this involved Gabriel holding a pose while each frame was shot and moving between exposures, effectively becoming a human puppet. More recently Aardman used this technique on a series of short films for BBC THREE entitled Angry Kid, which starred a live actor wearing a mask. The actor's pose and the mask's expression had to be altered slightly for each exposure. Another variation on.
Subtractive synthesis - creates musical timbres by filtering complex waveforms generated by oscillators. Subtractive synthesis is usually (but not exclusively) associated with analogue voltage controlled synthesizers such as the moog or the minimoog.It can produce very natural changes in a sound, owing to the intuitive way in which it works. The starting waveforms are often square waves, pulse waves, saw waves or triangle waves. Digital and software synthesizers may include other, more complex waveforms or allow the user to upload arbitrary waveforms. Some synthesizers use a form of pulse width modulation to dynamically alter the waveform for a more organic, "phat" tone. Typically a lowpass filter is applied to the initial tone, because natural musical sounds generally include less of the harsh high frequencies found in square or sawtooth waves. Often the user has.
Player piano - The player piano is a type of piano that plays music without the need for a human pianist to depress the normal keys or pedals. Instead, these are moved by mechanical, pneumatic or electrical means. One cannot say that this musical instrument was invented by any one person, since its many distinguishing features were developed over a long period of time, principally during the second half of the 19th century. An early example was the Pianista, developed by Henri Fourneaux in 1863, though ultimately the best known was the Pianola, originally created by Edwin Scott Votey in 1895 at his home workshop in Detroit. The player piano was most popular in the first half of the 20th century, roughly at the same time as the acoustic gramophone. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide").
