Category Archives: Audio

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StoryWalks at Eldridge Street ~ Audio Engine Research

I met with Hans-Christoph Steiner last Tuesday to explore software solutions that might power the StoryWalks mobile app. Hans is teaching this semester’s Programmatic Audio course and has expertise in Pure Data (PD), a programming environment for audio and video processing. Pure Data is a … Read More

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Volumes of Voices ~ ITP Winter Show 2011 (documentation)

ITP Winter Show 2011 December 18 & 19, 2011 Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Listeners wander through our 9′ x 9′ space with a pair of headphones. Transient fragments of voices, papers rustling, poetry, and music emerge and evaporate as a result of the listener’s … Read More

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Found Letters ~ Thesis Proposal

The Idea Found Letters : Jack & Matilda Elevator Statement Found Letters: Jack & Matilda is a work of historical literary fiction and an environmental reading experience that follows a World War II-era couple, Jack and Matilda, from occupied Paris to post-war rural Kansas, engaging … Read More

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Volumes of Voices ~ Case Statement

Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich For our final Cabinets of Wonder assignment, we were asked to prepare a concept proposal for a new museum or exhibition and present this as a printed case statement like the kind made by … Read More

volumes winter show sketch

Refined User Experience Scenario & ITP Winter Show Submission ~ 2011

Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Chris and I have been meeting weekly via Skype since early October to develop a comprehensive design direction document for our eleven soundwalk movements. In November, we invited Kevin Bleich to join the project … Read More

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Volumes of Voices ~ Kinect Presence Sensing ~ Center of Mass Detection

Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Because we would like the Volumes of Voices installation experience to be wires-free, we’ve decided to work with the Kinect sensor. To find out whether the Kinect can do what we imagine, Kevin and … Read More

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Volumes of Voices ~ Concept Development for a Site-Specific (ITP) Installation

Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson NOTE: This project extends a concept developed at ITP during the 2011 spring semester in Daniel Perlin’s course, Sound and the City. Concept Volumes of Voices takes listeners on an immersive, musical journey through the New … Read More

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Volumes of Voices ~ Live Performance

Volumes of Voices, performed live by Christopher Carlson at the CCRMA Spring Concert, May 26, 2011. Chris writes: This piece is derived from a collaboration with Carlin Wragg, a student at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, and the New York Public Library. Together, we have … Read More

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Evolution ~ Interactive Letter Box becomes Found Letters : Jack & Matilda

Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit & ITP Spring Show 2011 Collaborator: Kevin Bleich For the last part of the spring semester, I collaborated with my friend and classmate Kevin Bleich to evolve the technology, content, and concept for Interactive Letter Box into a functioning installation … Read More

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Volumes of Voices ~ mobile app demo (Android)

Write Once, Access Anywhere Professor Corey Menscher Assignment Build a mobile application using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. Homepage player demo. ~ Wireframes presented May 5, 2011 at ITP

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Refined User Scenario & ITP Show Submission ~ Interactive Letter Box

Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit Collaborator: Kevin Bleich I drafted a new user scenario and elevator statement, then submitted the project for inclusion in the ITP Spring Show 2011. We find out on May 6th if it’s accepted. Project Summary Interactive Letter Box is an … Read More

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Collective Storytelling Final ~ Interactive Letter Box

Collective Storytelling Marianne Petit In-Class Presentation ~ April 20, 2011 Inspiration Inspired, in part, by a collection of letters my grandfather wrote my grandmother during World War II, and the work of Janet Cardiff and Heidi Kumao, Interactive Letter Box will explore the experience of … Read More