ChinatownJS: Listen Closely
Join the Sanctuary Computer team for the next ChinatownJS!
For this event, we're excited to feature three talks related to sound, audio, and music. We'll also hear from special guests Jed Schmidt and Jenn Schiffer, respective founders of BrooklynJS and Jerseyscript.
We'll provide a spread of local delicacies (read: dumplings), as well as beers and nonalcoholic drinks.
Speaker Lineup
In shame I will find paradise: speech to text function in exploring transgender voice by taehee
In Shame I Will Find Paradise focuses on using gender-affirming voice therapy as a starting point to explore nuanced feelings of displacement and the intricate relationships between language, identity, and expression.
The project is largely based on my dialogues with Umico Niwa, who traveled to Korea for voice feminization surgery, and Jeong Lee, a close friend and four-year participant in Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Using the mistranslation and glitches from speech to text javascript codes, this project by creating audio visualizers that investigate the tension between language, identity, and expression associated with voice in transgender experience and potentially a playful encryption.
Making internet radio with a series of tubes by Niko Lazaris
My understanding of building internet applications has always been pretty simple; send a request to a server and get a response back. But I saw something recently that shook my world. What if the response never ends?
I'll use this talk to peek behind the curtains of chunked transfer encoding, piping streams of data to the browser, and some other ways of handling data streams. For example, a demo of live mixing a radio voice into a music track to be streamed to the browser.
I'll also share my experience building a media server for Evenings, an internet radio service, and the interesting ways we use these mechanisms. Like how you can run a live internet radio station in your browser using only basic HTML elements.
Authorship Without Control: The role of chaos and javascript in generative music by Peter Toh
Through thinking about the web browser as an instrument, this talk will outline a process of creating generative music with field recordings, javascript, the web browser and the Web Audio API. By recognizing the primary role of chaos in producing the possibility of a non-recording, the relationships of discovery and creation in authorship; of artist and listener; and of public and private space become less distinct.