Seapoint Dart Station-Location of recordings
SeaPoint used a diaristic form of presentation.
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8th
June
5th
July
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SEAPOINT COLLABORATIVE PROJECT
With Dennis Mc Nulty
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PROJECT (please turn on speakers)
Project
Info: This
was a collaborative project initiated by London based Variablemedia.org.
They invited Dublin based visual artist Cliona Harmey and musician
Dennis Mc Nulty to collaborate together to create a temporary, process
based, internet project, to be hosted on the variablemedia.org site.
The project ran for 28 days from the 8th June 2002 to the 5th of
July 2002 with updates occurring daily.
During
each day of the project Harmey travelled by train & recorded
a 10 second video/audio sample of the Irish sea from a fixed location
at a bridge on shore at Seapoint on the south Dublin coast. She
digitally processed the day's recorded images into a video animation
file and allocated a number and description from the **Beaufort
Scale to this file.
**The
Beaufort Scale(see below) measures wind speed by observing the visual
effects of wind on water and allocates a number ranging from 0 for
calm conditions to 12 for a hurricane.
This measurement for the day's images, was applied to the concurrent
audio recording in a resampling process, devised by McNulty. The
number, from 0 - 12, was combined with other codes from number generators,
defining the parameters for each day's resampled sound. These audio
files were then recombined with the video animation as a short Flash
film.
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Beaufort Scale for use
at Sea
Beaufort
Number
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Wind
Velocity
(knots)
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(MPH)
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Seaman’s
Term
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Sea
Condition
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0
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0-1
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0-1.7
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Calm
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Glassy-smooth,
mirror-like
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1
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2-3
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1.8-4.0
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Light
air
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Scale-like
ripples
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2
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4-6
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4.1-7.4
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Light
breeze
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Small,
short wavelets with glassy crests
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3
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7-10
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7.5-12.0
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Gentle
breeze
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Large
wavelets, crests begin to break, occasional form
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4
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11-16
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12.1-18.9
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Moderate
breeze
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Small
waves, some whitecaps, more frequent form
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5
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17-21
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19.0-24.7
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Fresh
breeze
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Moderate
longer waves, better formed, many whitecaps, much foam, some spray
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6
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22-27
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24.8-31.6
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Strong
breeze
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Large
waves form, many whitecaps, foam everywhere, more spray
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7
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28-33
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31.7-38.5
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Moderate
gale
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Sea
heaps up, streaks of foam spindrift begins
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8
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34-40
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38.6-46.6
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Fresh
gale
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Moderately-high
long waves, crests into spindrift, well-marked streaks of foam
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9
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41-47
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46.7-53.9
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Strong
gale
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High
waves, sea rolls, dense streaks, spray affects visibility
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