May 10 & 11 5pm-9pm
Spring Show 2005
721 Broadway
at Waverly Place
4th Floor
South Elevators
New York, NY 10003
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| Author(s): | Derek Wang | |
| Instructor: | Migliorelli, Frank DuBois, Luke |
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| Class: | Final Project Seminar Musical Informatics |
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| URL: | http://www.bitnoots.com/thesis | |
| A music installation for three users to experiment with collaboration. | ||
| Is it possible to overcome the cacophonous nature of interactive collaborative music installations? Group effects and dynamics as a whole can be quite complex in nature. When they are coupled with a technology-based environment where users are interacting together to create music or sounds, the results are all too often disastrous or downright noisy and annoying. The heart of the problem lies in solving issues with user feedback and interface design. Users need to understand how and what they are contributing to a musical installation in order for them to have a more rewarding and engaging interaction. | ||
| Audience: | Users with no musical background to experienced musicians. | |
| User Scenario: | Users can play one of three washboard instruments. Each instrument performs a distinct role in creating music/sounds. Each washboard has a range of tones (high, middle, low) and sounds are outputted to a corresponding speaker. Each speaker has a rotating speaker that creates visual feedback and mechanical vibrato which is triggered by tilting the connected washboard on one of its axes. | |
| Technical System Description: | Each washboard is equipped with an accelerometer, piezo, and IR sensors which run into a PIC based Teleo module interfacting with MAX/MSP for sound processing and motor control of each of three speakers. | |