#168 - Fairly standard
Cultural Digital
Hello
This week it was hard to put the links in any sort of sensible order. Nevermind. This is pretty good fun…
Popup Trombone. You'll need to be on a desktop or laptop for it to work. The first thing I tried to play on this was Baby Shark, which might give you an idea of my home life right now.
Here's everything else…
When it comes to music notation, the future's animated. "How can we make notation relevant to today’s music practice? Some composers are using technology to enable new notation methods".
Stylizing Video by Example. "We introduce a new example-based approach to video stylization, with a focus on preserving the visual quality of the style, user controllability and applicability to arbitrary video". This stuff gets more and more sophisticated. It's been built into an app at EbSynth.
A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.
Lucy Branch ACR: How I Learned To Value My Platform - The Hard Way. "it didn’t even occur to me that it might be a good idea to familiarise myself with the under the hood stuff of a website". The actual title of this might've run afoul of some email filters.
How London’s National Theatre Live Changed the Global Theatrical Landscape "As the broadcasting arm of the National Theatre celebrates its 10th anniversary, Playbill goes inside how a broadcast is captured—and what Broadway can learn from the platform".
Londondance.com is closing. "Since the launch of the website in 2001, the dance sector has considerably changed, as have the communication channels and services available to dance professionals in London and beyond".
Sensors in Museums - Bristol Museums. "Armed with Raspberry Pis, webcams, an array of open source tech (and the obligatory beer) the challenge to come up with a system that can glean useful data about museum visitors at a low cost and using fairly standard infrastructure".
The Museum of Future Experiences offers a spooky, surreal take on VR. "I felt equal parts amused, excited and unsettled".
MOONMOONS "Anna Meredith has collaborated with designer Arthur Carabott to make [moonmoons AR] - an app that uses Augmented Reality and Spatial Audio to allow listeners an in-depth exploration of Anna’s new single moonmoons".
Workshop recap: New Digital Literacies for the Cultural Sector. A write-up of "the first workshop of the DigiTrans project. Launched in collaboration with Dortmunder U, Center for Arts and Creativity in Dortmund, Germany, this one year project explores new digital literacies for the cultural sector".
Linked Art "is a Community working together to create a shared Model based on Linked Open Data to describe Art".
Treasure trove of UAE: Free Gulf Archives now online. "Thousands of priceless records on UAE spanning two centuries are available online".
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs available at the Ambassador Theatre Group, Royal Museums Greenwich, Art UK, and the Roundhouse.
Thanks for reading. If you get a good tune out of that trombone then record it and send me a link. Also, hello to anyone who joined from either the Digital Culture Network or Storythings newsletters.
I'll catch you again soon.
Chris Unitt