I suppose I haven't fully investigated the details of morse code quite yet (btw, I've come up with my own pd transcription patch that I can share that uses the [text] objects that Patrice mentioned, but before it comes to that it needs a lot of tweaking...).
I suppose I've been fascinated with how the worlds of communcations technology and music are so intertwined. Stretching the idea of technology a bit, rudimental drumming, something every percussionist learns going through school, has its roots in military (at least back to civil war days, if not earlier) and communicating orders to troops (and I suppose in a superficial way it's related to morse code in how it uses more-or-less codified rhythms to communicate information). The first public wireless radio broadcasts (AM I think) were done by Lee de Forest at the beginning of the 20th C and it was of live Metropolitan Opera concerts. Of course AM (and FM) would later find roles in synthesis techniques for computer music. Jumping way ahead, the Internet has drastically changed the way music is accessed and shared and how it proliferates (not to mention who is able to participate in music creation and sharing). And the technologies that have sprung up around it have opened up new avenues of muscial expression. I've helped out in concerts where live performers play alongside other live performers from the other side of the country (of course not possible without Internet technology). Open-source music proejcts and the communities around them such as this community and Pure Data thrive because the Internet allow the software to be easily distributed and allow the community to organize and contribute. And web standards such as Web Audio API and backend tech such as Node.js have allowed for new ways of interacting with music, I've used them myself in concerts to trigger sounds on people's phones. And of course the big field of DSP covers everything from the the techniques we use in computer music to how cell phones work.
Anyways, I'm not too familiar with the design of the Morse code but I'll be sure to at least read down the relevant bits of the Wikipedia page and/or any other resources you might suggest =).
Derek
On Jun 23, Andy Farnell wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 03:33:14PM -0700, Derek Kwan wrote:
intrigued by the interplay and interconnections between telecommunications technologies and art,
And design? Morse Code is quite clever, in efficiency by symbol frequency and disambiguity of frequently adjacent symbols. Good protocols are products of design and evolution and have a certain beauty of their own I think.
Andy