Art and Sound

Got my hands on one of DVD players and started reconnecting wires and redirecting the power being run through the control panel. After a sit down with chris and some documenting we realized that with just five taps into the circuit board we could carry out all of the combinations needed for our project.

A sort of organized schedule was setup for our group to make sure we would be able to accomplish our project on time for the Shift Space showing.

Done by Thursday April 20:
 - motion sensor integrated with Logochip
 - Chris and TJ have gotten together for at least one hour playing with
DVD player and Logochip

By Sat April 22:
 - one DVD player interacting w/ Logochip

By Tuesday April 25:
 - 3 DVDs should be linked and synchronized

By Thursday April 27:
 - project is complete

Going to try our best to accomplish this.

Chris, Joey and myself sat down and essentially threw out what we wanted to do with "The Family" Chris ended up posting some really goo dnotes of our discussion and teh ideas that we discussed incorporating into our project.

Check it out under his March 30th post, "Making a schedule".
http://michaelangelo3.wordpress.com/

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.

So i was going to add this to the group email list but I guess I am just receiving the emails and can’t actually add anything yet. So here are some of my ideas for now.

I would post my ideas as just normal posts in the main page but I have too many different ideas to bring along. So I am going to just create a page for them and add ideas as they come to me.

1/22/06

Initial ideas::

I really wanted to do something that would be interactive but also aesthetically pleasing when not in use, something like an interactive or lit-up fountain or something like an interactive wall piece that would just maybe shift colors but would become more alive when people interact with it.

Another idea I had was something along the lines of a completely absent instrument. In a sense you would use the glove idea that Professor Harrison has where you would put on these reaction gloves that would mark out where your fingers are and play notes according to an instrument that you pick. The tough part would initially be picking out an instrument that would be the most effective and just starting with it.

I think this will do for starting out, I’ll add more as I go.

Starting out.

Just testing the page see how everything works.

Just in case.