Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.
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The Sonic Memorial Project
SonicMemorial.org is an open archive and an online audio installation of the history of The World Trade Center. We are continuing to collect stories, ambient sounds, voicemails, and archival recordings to tell the rich history of the twin towers, the neighborhood and the events of 9/11.
Led by NPR’s Lost & Found Sound, The Sonic Memorial Project is a cross-media collaboration of more than 50 independent radio and new media producers, artists, historians, and people from around the world who have contributed personal and archival recordings. To date, we have gathered more than 1,000 contributions, many of which have been woven into feature stories by Lost & Found Sound and broadcast on NPR.
One of the greatest drummers who ever lived, Buddy Rich. In a phase of his life when he was prone to aggressive outbursts to his band members on the tour bus. Some of which were secretley recorded. Here are three of those recordings.
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Drifting Sense Net by Cristian Vogel Drifting Sense Net by Cristian Vogel station55@no-future.comDrifting Sense Net generates texts. It generates stochastically from a context-free grammar, using a seed noun and a seed verb. Upon each expansion of the grammar rules, the program looks at the nouns and verbs that were chosen and pulls certain synonym sets for those words from the Wordnet Ontology ( a semantic relational database ). The grammar rules are then extended with the new semantic definitions, which grows the ‘vocabulary’ tree available to the program, along stochastic lines The result is a poem that appears to drift in meaning, perhaps coming back to themes and images, yet able to rewrite itself endlessly.This is how I imagine robots will speak, a cross between punk rock lyrics and haiku.The user can interact using the keyboard, as well as providing the seeds.
[1] or [2] adjusts the sense of leaps in meaning, increasing the ‘step size’ of the ‘walk’ through the Wordnet.
[s] saves the whole generated text to disk, where the semantic drift becomes quite apparent.
[q] to reset the seeds.
Download Drifting Sense Net for Mac Os X UPDATED 6/08/2011
Created in Processing using RiTa and RiTaWn](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loujetSoYj1qbjgnpo1_1280.png)
Drifting Sense Net by Cristian Vogel
Drifting Sense Net
by Cristian Vogel
station55@no-future.com
Drifting Sense Net generates texts.
It generates stochastically from a context-free grammar, using a seed noun and a seed verb.
Upon each expansion of the grammar rules, the program looks at the nouns and verbs that were chosen and pulls certain synonym sets for those words from the Wordnet Ontology ( a semantic relational database ).
The grammar rules are then extended with the new semantic definitions, which grows the ‘vocabulary’ tree available to the program, along stochastic lines
The result is a poem that appears to drift in meaning, perhaps coming back to themes and images, yet able to rewrite itself endlessly.
This is how I imagine robots will speak, a cross between punk rock lyrics and haiku.
The user can interact using the keyboard, as well as providing the seeds.
[1] or [2] adjusts the sense of leaps in meaning, increasing the ‘step size’ of the ‘walk’ through the Wordnet.[s] saves the whole generated text to disk, where the semantic drift becomes quite apparent.
[q] to reset the seeds.
Download Drifting Sense Net for Mac Os X UPDATED 6/08/2011
Created in Processing using RiTa and RiTaWn
