Design something that relates to the senses
I decided I wanted to deal with a slightly abstract sense of the word "sense". I want my project to deal with a hunch or premonition, a sense that something is about to happen. I don't know how much this happens to people, but if it happens, I can only guess it is somewhat random and based on something extra-sensory, something abstract.
This makes me think about movie soundtracks, how the music in movies always prepares you or warns you that something is about to happen, and how that affects the way you interpret what you see. (You know that something very bad will happen to the swimmers in Jaws.)
I decided to take a rather playful approach to this subject, so I want to make a jacket that based on a rather random, meaningless input (the direction of the wind? -- this idea comes from Mary Poppins) plays a random piece of music that is very suggestive of a certain mood, so it will warn you that something good/bad/funny/romantic is about to happen.
I want to use music from movie soundtracks (comedies, romances, thrillers, dramas). I will hack an mp3 player. I have to embed speakers, and the mp3player in the jacket. I also have to work out the trigger: what will it be, how will it work?
I will have to set the mp3 player to shuffle, and to only play one track at a time.
