{"id":81,"date":"2013-11-09T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/live-blogging-flossie-pulse-projec\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:23:04","slug":"live-blogging-flossie-pulse-projec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/live-blogging-flossie-pulse-projec\/","title":{"rendered":"Live blogging flossie: Pulse Project- touching as listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flossie.org\/\">Flossie<\/a> was women-only  and a bunch of men complained. This year, they bowed to pressure and decided to let anyone attend. I&#8217;m the only boy in the room.)<br \/>\nTalk by Michelle Lewis-King, an American who uses SuperCollider(!).<br \/>\nThis is based on pulse-reading and some Chinese medicine principles. She has an acupuncture degree.<br \/>\nOccidental medicine is based on cutting apart dead bodies. Whereas Chinese medicine is more &#8216;alchemistic&#8217;, she says. Western medicine is from looking at dead bodies. Chinese medicine is based on feeling living bodies.<br \/>\nPulses are abstractly linked to a type of music of the spheres.<br \/>\nShe started drawing people&#8217;s pulses at different depths. This is sonic portraiture.<br \/>\nShe found the SuperCollider community to be problematic to ask questions due to differences in &#8216;architecture&#8217; differences.  Some of the tutorials are not easy. She says the book is great because of the diversity of approaches.  People at conferences have criticised her code, which is not a fun experience.<br \/>\nThe community also provides a lot of support. The programme is free, community oriented and a useful tool.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s playing one of her compositions. It&#8217;s a pulsing very synthesised sound.<br \/>\nMore info: <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.sonicstudies.org\/vol04\/nr01\/a12\">journal.sonicstudies.org\/vol04\/nr01\/a12<\/a> 4th issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter @vergevirtual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Last year, Flossie was women-only and a bunch of men complained. This year, they bowed to pressure and decided to let anyone attend. I&#8217;m the only boy in the room.) Talk by Michelle Lewis-King, an American who uses SuperCollider(!). This is based on pulse-reading and some Chinese medicine principles. She has an acupuncture degree. Occidental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/live-blogging-flossie-pulse-projec\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Live blogging flossie: Pulse Project- touching as listening<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,75,54],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-flossie","tag-live-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}