{"id":1171,"date":"2006-04-12T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2006-04-12T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T15:58:33","slug":"indexical-inscription-of-the-acoustic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Indexical Inscription of the Acoustic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Indexical Inscription\" href=\"http:\/\/www.music.princeton.edu\/~john\/indexicalinscription.htm\">The Indexical Inscription of the Acoustic<\/a> by John Puterbaugh, is a short &#8220;preliminary investigation into memory and its role in technologies used to reproduce sound.&#8221; It has one of the best short descriptions of transcription, inscription and acoustic technologies. The investigation leads to the interesting idea of how neural nets might be explored as a form of associative memory device for recording sound which would be closer to how we remember acoustic events than how a CD is a memory of an event. <\/p>\n<p>Would we want recordings that were associative rather than &#8220;soley indexical&#8221;? Would we want memory technologies that were interpretative rather than literal? I&#8217;m not sure I know what that would mean except that it would be the difference between depending on my memory as a record of information (lets say of a conversation) and a transcription to a text file. <\/p>\n<p>How would one use a computer that used associative memory? Imagine calling up a paper and finding it subtly different at each recall the way your partner&#8217;s memory of a conversation drifts differently than yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indexical Inscription of the Acoustic by John Puterbaugh, is a short &#8220;preliminary investigation into memory and its role in technologies used to reproduce sound.&#8221; It has one of the best short descriptions of transcription, inscription and acoustic technologies. The investigation leads to the interesting idea of how neural nets might be explored as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indexical Inscription of the Acoustic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streaming-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}