beyond the zero

• photo-detection (photochemistry, photodiode+amplification, photomultiplier)
• psychogeophysics(walk, fieldtrip, scrying with measurements)
• repurposing of common media apparatus (tape recorder, television, video recorder) as scrying medium
• audio work - traditional EVP
• overnight laboratory

Psychogeography could set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.

[Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography. Guy-Ernest Debord]

Psychogeophysics as a novel discipline can be defined as crossing the wave and code distinction, encompassing the disciplines of psychogeographics, data forensics and geophysical archaeology. It presents an interdisciplinary and highly speculative methodology investigating wider, complex signal ecologies through walks, discussions, working groups, measurement and quasi-scientific practice.

• introductions and overview of schedule and techniques [this]
  
  • SATURDAY
    
    • introductions and overview of techniques
    • retroactive PK (psychokinesis) experiment
    • discussion and elaboration of classical EVP techniques (psychophon, ultrasound), recordings and interpretation
    • start experiments with photo-detection
    • planning of field trip/short scrying walk
    • set up of an evening measurement lab
  • SUNDAY
    
    • interpretation of measurement lab results
    • field trip
    • photo-detection
    • repurposing/work with video and imaging (staticx.py)
    • future projects
• retroactive PK (psychokinesis) experimentation:
  

  see also: (web page of John Walker: http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/ )

  also experiments

  ./readrng -d /dev/ttyUSB0 -f ~/testfile -8 -q 1024
  python rpk.py
  python process_results.py 
  

  and then look up in table: bincentre.html

• discussion and elaboration of classical EVP techniques
  

  

  • using UHER (red wire is signal in, to record to laptop volume high and rec levels lowest)
  • 1] Inter-frequenz method (Raudive) - tuning to a point between broadcast stations.
    
    • Radio frequency for EVP

    Jurgenson frequency range: medium wave (MW) 1480 KHz (1,48 MHz)

    Hans Otto Koenig frequency range: short wave (SW 31 m band 10 MHz and SW 41 m band 7 MHz)

    Marcello Bacci frequency: SW 7 to 9 Megahertz,

    Raymond Cass frequency: 127 MHz (air band frequency).

  • 2] Microphone recordings (including use of audio frequency white noise)
    
  • 3] Diode recordings
    
  • 4] Autotransmission (Raudive):
    

    signal generator connected directly to aerial socket of a radio

  • 4] Other methods (ultrasound - some kind of cylinder)
    
  • 5] Use of technical apparatus such as psychophon
    
  • 6] software - evp.c
    
    • root/xxxxx_2/xxxxx/trunk/evp
    • evp to from windowsize overlapon/off

      cat /dev/dsp | evp 18 320 40 1 > /dev/dsp
      

    as an example

• start experiments with photo-detection
  
  • photodiode and thoughtography:
  • TSL257 photodetector
    

    

    • straight into Arduino with supply (middle pin) as 3.3v gives best results.
    • fixed for mini-skry platform using main.c.photoamp with TSL257 on ADC3 - pin 6 of mini-skry
• set up of an evening measurement lab
  
  • for light, EM (mini-scry), white noise, magnetic field, wide spectrum, and vibration (HD)?
  • also audio (voice activated)

• interpretation of measurement lab results
  

  In gnuplot mode:

  C-c C-r
  

  set terminal png size 1024,768
  set output "/root/projects/scotland/newcastle/n2/monk01.png"
  
  plot "/root/olderprojects/scotland/newcastle/n2/monk01" index 0 using 0:($1-160) with lines, "/root/olderprojects/scotland/newcastle/n2/monk01" index 0 using 2 with lines
  
  

  • and how to overlay graphs?

    set multiplot
    set style line 1 linecolor rgb "green"
    plot "whitenoise06022010.log" w lines ls 1
    

• further photo-detection
  
  • photodiodes and recorder
    
  • photodiode and thoughtography
    
    • TSL257 photodetector
      
      • straight into Arduino with supply (middle pin) as 3.3v gives best results.
      • fixed for mini-skry platform using main.c.photoamp with TSL257 on ADC3 - pin 6 of mini-skry
  • photographic process
    
  • photomultiplier:
    

    connections for pre-amp board attached (using LF256) +- 12/15v:

    black: GND, green: -V (blue), orange +V (yellow on repurposed PSU)

    with -1000V to Cathode and responds quite obviously to light (0.5v to 10v swing).

  • light carrier (laser, magnetometer setup)
    
• repurposing/work with video and imaging
  

  

  video feedback/recording (channel 36). camera into av3 (composite socket on front)

  see also:

  

  • staticx.py
    
  • recordings without videotape and open top
    
  • rough analysis of static frames
    

    use recorder.py to record jpegs from CPIA webcam, analysis:

    for rough image analysis (white vs. black pixels): analyse.sh

  • other ideas for repurposing (hard drive, floppy drive)
    
  • Hard Drive
    

    

    • HD coil wired up to op27 op-amp circuit (10k feedback resistor), + with 10K to + and -. logging into minicom through ADC0 Arduino
    • see looper for gnuplot script to reread live data (a=0, load looper)
    • also using octave to convert to audio semi-succesfully

      xx=load("hdvoice");
      saveaudio("testt",xx,"mu",16) (16 bit mu-law)
      then load as raw data (16 bit PCM) into audacity (then normalize!)
      

  • working with floppy drive as magnet field sensor
    

    

    • connect pin 12 to GND to run motor
    • signal seems stronger if comes from both pin 30 (data read) and 32 (select head) (?)
    • playing floppy (also play with stepper (18 and/or 20 to GND) + feedback (sans floppy) through speaker

• audio recordings made using various EVP techniques:
  

  http://www.archive.org/details/BeyondTheZero

  … from both days

• ultrasonic setup using champagne flutes
  

  

  

  (after details in: The Mediumship of the Tape Recorder: A Detailed Examination of the (Jurgenson, Raudive) Phenomenon of Voice Extras on Tape Recordings - David J. Ellis)

• evening measurement lab
  

  

  

  Set up in the cellars of the Castle of the Teutonic Knights commencing at 6PM and finishing at 12:00PM the following day (castle cellars closed at 6PM and opend at 10:00AM)

  Measuring magnetic field strength (FGM-3 fluxgate magnetometer), light intensity (TSL257 photodetector), wide and narrow band radio frequency emmissions (Analog Devices AD8313 and Cypress CYWUSB6935), local white noise (transistor avalanche) using micro-skry platform:

  http://www.1010.co.uk/org/scrying.html#sec-2.9

  Also using voice activated recorder/dictaphone.

• thoutographic results from evening lab
  

  http://www.fotokatie.com/katier/?p=855

• measurement results from evening lab:
  

  magnetic field strength (no results - possibly lacked power)

  light intensity:

  

• wide and narrow band radio frequency emmissions:
  

  

  

  

  

  

• local white noise:
  

  

• voice activated recorder:
  
• walk images
  

  

  

  

  

  Walking to and from the castle.

• light/laser images
  

  

  

  

  Magnetometer/pendulum with mirror, laser and photoamplifier as above.

• further recordings:
  

Ghost image en route Torun to Berlin.

a=a+1
plot [0:][80:110] "/root/gsr3.cap" with lines
pause 0.1
if(a<50000) reread

set terminal png
set output "/root/projects/white_2/images/castle_white5.png"
plot "/root/projects/white_2/logs/castle_white5.log" with lines

#!/bin/bash

for file in `ls *.jpg`
do
octave -qf image_an.m $file
done

# image_an.m
filename=argv(); 
pkg load image;
#disp(filename{1});
xx=imread(filename{1});
img = rgb2gray(xx);
ibw = img;
m=128;
disp(numel(ibw (ibw < m )))

#!/usr/bin/env python

import random
import time
import struct
import posix
import fcntl
from video4linux import *

count=0
conteur=0
WIDTH=352
HEIGHT=288

fd = posix.open ("/dev/video0", posix.O_RDONLY);

# switch to channel 0
channel = list(video_channel.unpack(video_channel.struct_size*'\0'))
channel[video_channel.channel] = 0
channel = video_channel.unpack(fcntl.ioctl(fd, VIDIOCGCHAN,video_channel.pack(channel)))
channel = video_channel.unpack(fcntl.ioctl(fd, VIDIOCSCHAN,video_channel.pack(channel)))

# get parameters for mmap
mbuf = video_mbuf.unpack(fcntl.ioctl(fd, VIDIOCGMBUF, video_mbuf.struct_size*'\0'))

# memory map the video device file
mm_fd = mmap.mmap(fd,mbuf[video_mbuf.size],mmap.MAP_SHARED,mmap.PROT_READ)

# create empty structure
mm = list(video_mmap.unpack(video_mmap.struct_size*'\0'))
# fill structure
mm[video_mmap.frame] = 0
mm[video_mmap.height] = HEIGHT
mm[video_mmap.width] = WIDTH
mm[video_mmap.format] = VIDEO_PALETTE_GREY

# test
capture = list(video_capture.unpack(video_capture.struct_size*'\0'))
capture[video_capture.width]=100
capture = video_capture.unpack(fcntl.ioctl(fd, VIDIOCSCHAN,video_capture.pack(capture)))
print capture

# set up Tk and PIL
import Image
import Tkinter
tk=Tkinter.Tk()
import ImageTk
photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage("L",(WIDTH,HEIGHT))
label= Tkinter.Label(tk,text="mini TV",image=photo,width=WIDTH,height=HEIGHT)
label.pack()
picture = ''

try:
  while 1: 
      fcntl.ioctl (fd, VIDIOCMCAPTURE, video_mmap.pack(mm))
      fcntl.ioctl (fd, VIDIOCSYNC, struct.pack("i",0))
      picturenew = mm_fd.read(WIDTH)
      mm_fd.seek(352*count)
      count = count + 1

      print count
      picture += picturenew

      if count > 287:

        mm_fd.seek(0)
        count = 0
        conteur+=1
        im = Image.fromstring("L",(WIDTH,HEIGHT),picture)
        randnew = random.sample(range(0,288), 288)
      
        im.save("xyz"+str(conteur)+".jpg","JPEG")

        picture=''
        photo.paste(im)
        tk.update()

except Tkinter.TclError:
    pass
mm_fd.close()