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Hi there, thanks for visiting! This blog hasnt been updated in a while but if you are interested in my work then please visit my portfolio website at ross-tb-aitken.com to see all of my current projects in detail. My Oversound music project(the soundtrack for the East London Line)can also be found on its own website; oversound.co.uk and can be downloaded for free at rossaitken.bandcamp.com. Also, if you would like to contact me about anyting at all, then please dont hesitate to send an email to ross.aitken@yahoo.co.uk, I would be happy to hear from you! Ross Aitken.

Incredible John Frusciante interview in which he talks about many things including the process of music being an internal product of our brains in oppose to something external. I felt this was related to my self initiated project in its attempt to define how we might take sounds from our surroundings and assemble them as music in our own minds.

Oversound - Self Initiated Project - Google Map

View London Oversound Walk in a larger map

Here is a link to the customised google map I created to chart my journey for this project.  The map shows my route, as well as plotting each of the locations in which I made sound recordings and provides a short description of my experiences on each route.

Will Self, Urban Psychosis Lectures

A fascinating lecture I attended recently as part of the research of my on going, self initiated project.  Will Self discusses the topics of traveling in the urban environment among other things, a theme which is perfectly suited to my own activities and intentions with this project.

Secret language gif

My first attempt at creating a gif to represent my alphabet.. currently basing it on the trend in geometric shapes that is prevalent in contemporary graphic design blogs at the moment.  Each layer of this gif was photocopied from a transparency as a metaphor for the process of duplication all memes must go through to become successful. 

More info graphics and Virus visualisation

Firstly a beautiful info graphic that made me consider using something similar to track the progress of memes as past of this project -

http://vimeo.com/19088241

More stuff on the subject of viruses, this first piece is a moving info graphic on the spread of viruses

http://vimeo.com/22371716

The second piece is actually showing the formation of microscopic bacteria.

http://www.virology.ws/2010/02/03/now-playing-viral-plaque-formation/

Virus Video and Meme Doc

Some interesting bits I have been looking at recently as part of the on going research for my meme alphabet project.

Firstly,  This interactive piece demonstrates the different aspects of viruses, an avenue I am still considering for this project -

http://www.yourdiscovery.com/anatomiesof/virus/

Secondly, a short documentary from the Vice creators project on the subject of Memes.

http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/the-mystique-of-online-viral-imagery-video