Art and Sound

Joey Capadona, Chris Wells and myself are going to be working a project that has been termed the family.  I figured I would also write a little snippet about what I see the project turning into and what both Joey and Chris discussed it as being.

I originally saw this room, with at least three piles of technology, preferably stripped of their covers so the their internal workings could be seen.  Each of these piles would have like little antennae sticking out of them that would sense how close a person is to the creation.  The closer someone would get to the pile, the more exaggerated the reaction would be from the pile.   Perhaps some LED’s would turn on or just some lights scattered among the jumble, then as you get closer maybe a tv or a fan or some other item in the pile would turn on.  Later as you get right up next to the piles, there could be hots spots which if you pass right in front of them maybe a speaker would tell you to please step away or perhaps some flash blubs would blink at you.

Then of course we could have it so that maybe if you get too close to the smaller pile (“the child”)  the larger piles would start reacting to your presence.  This would probably be the most involved portion of the programming as certain sensors in the smaller pile would have to be integrated into the larger piles.

Either way it should be an entertaining showing and should be good fun.  The hardest part starting out will be making the piles themselves and wiring them up.  The actual programming will be reactionary to what the piles contain so it should not be too much of an issue to take care of.

Here is the link to Joey’s explanation of our project on his blog:

http://cappy.wordpress.com/

So i finally got around to sitting down and actually creating something with PD.

Take a look. I believe it is jsut a FM modulator off of John’s example. Just wanted to see what would happen.

#N canvas 0 0 759 629 12;
#X obj 151 352 dac~;
#X obj 149 -62 vsl 15 128 0 127 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -8 0 8 -262144
-1 -1 7900 1;
#X obj 149 167 *~ 200;
#X obj 149 226 +~ 200;
#X obj 150 281 osc~ 0.25;
#X obj 149 109 osc~;
#X connect 1 0 5 0;
#X connect 2 0 3 0;
#X connect 3 0 4 0;
#X connect 4 0 0 0;
#X connect 5 0 2 0;
Cut it out and create a new PD file with it and see what happens.