digital media compositions / J Fishenden

PLEASE NOTE - with a few exceptions, THESE ARE LARGELY WORKS IN PROGRESS AT PRESENT. They are being developed as part of ongoing research.

All of these works require Microsoft Silverlight / Mono Moonlight. They also make extensive use of audio, including at low frequency responses. It is therefore recommended that they are experienced using high quality stereo speakers or headphones with a wide frequency response as otherwise aspects of the audio will not be heard. Work in progress.

Feedback is now closed (2nd November 2011). Many thanks to all of you who provided feedback on these compositions and techniques.

LondonLive An exploration of live feeds from flickr, twitter and freesound intermingled with unexpected encounters and echoes of the past ....	palimpsest navigator A multi-dimensional navigation-scape spanning visual and aural content and enabling encounters with a variety of compositions	cctv A CCTV control system picking up images of past and lost London, still and moving snapshots of people and places from London's past as well as London's present ... be patient, and odd things sometime happen  ....
palimpsest book A book that emerges from the past and contains random personal recollections of half-remembered children dreams and events	TimeRadio Babbage once wrote that every sound ever made is still out there somewhere .... this radio can tune across time, finding sounds from the past long forgotten, or never heard by human ear before ...	TimeTV TimeTV can tune into images of the past of lost London
aural palimpsests An exploration of hidden soundscapes to be found in the built environment around us - sounds once made or still being made in places where unless we stop and listen we shall never hear them ...	memories of times past An exploration of chance memories of people and places of my past [Added 03.08.2011]	piccadilly circus sonic palimpsest an original audio recording of London's Piccadilly Circus, and 20 diverse variants, provide an opportunity to explore  alternative layers of sound in the environment around us .... USES A NEW, DEVELOPER-ONLY RELEASE OF THE SILVERLIGHT PLUG-IN.
plasma An exploration of the core of the blood flows within our minds, and their underling role in forming our higher level memories of place. This work underpins the "bionodes" and "autobionodes" work in progress alongside.	bionodes An exploration of the way that memories are formed and lost within our minds as chance synaptic connections are made and lost	autobionodes An exploration of personal memories. Images of past places and people drift around in a dreamlike state, interacting with each other and forming chance memory clusters before sometimes drifting away.
fMRI simulation a work exploring the simulation of fMRI scanning, linking into underlying research themes of memory of place	personal fMRI extending the basic work on simulated fMRI, this begins to explore a more personal perspective as input into a larger planned work	iRemember(it will be) An exploration of memory; layers of environmental sounds (children, birds, the sea) and half-recollected ambiences and music from the past interweave with more ambiguous sounds (digital clocks or medical machines?) and meanings (what sort of 'stroke' is being spoken about?). And are the sounds we hear actuality recordings, or simulations ...?
Old Guildhall School of Music During the mid 1970s I travelled weekly for trumpet lessons at the old Guildhall School of Music in London’s John Carpenter Street. This work attempts to capture a sense of what this building once meant to me...	Old Guildhall School of Music Unlike the previous version of this piece, this composition randomises the audio selection each time it is viewed, altering the experience of the piece and the place	Old Guildhall School of Music (interactive) This version of the Guildhall composition enables the user to choose which sounds to start and stop, and when to do so. This exhibit is now available again after recent restoration work...!
palimpsest3D "3D" representation of previous homes	landing page 3D "3D" realisation of past images and sound
3D cube A technque using "3D-like" plane projection on multiple objects - in this case, a rotating cube with a secondary object contained within it	3D cube (variant 1) Demonstrating the application of a pixel shader to the 3D cube
clocktower emitter 1 use of particle emitter techniques on a familar London image...	clocktower emitter 2 alternative use of particle emitter techniques on a familiar London image (click and drag the emitted images)