Author Archives: merceditas008

Larynxtrone

For my final project I wanted to use the voice as the powerful tool it is to modify some of my face features. I am a big fan of the work of artist such as Meredith Monk or Joan La … Continue reading

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What you cannot see from yourself

Exploration to show the version of ourselves that we never get to see and a way to become conscious of such in involuntary action like blinking where our mind is in charge of “editing out” the black frames that we … Continue reading

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Lost sounds

I am very interested in the lost sounds during the conversion of sound files to different formats. So for this exercise I converted a sound file of one of my songs, originally in .wav format 44100, into .mp3 of quality … Continue reading

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El ataque de los yogures

  An attempt to represent  some recurrent feeling I had some months ago with Kinect. And here is the code I used: https://github.com/merceditas008/AppropriatingNewTechnologies/tree/master/week3  

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Face detection

An exercise/ commentary about how our feelings are stripped away in the digital communication. To make it work you have to load the expressions, so press ” l “Here is the code in Github: https://github.com/merceditas008/AppropriatingNewTechnologies/tree/master/week2

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The wrist and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

In a place like ITP we spend most of the time in front of our computers. I have had conversations with people around of how the last two years affected them in terms of health and some of us noticed … Continue reading

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Sonic interpretation of the asymmetry on the arm swing

My initial goal for this project was to analize some movements in the upper part of our body to control diverse audio hardware through MIDI. Later on I narrowed my options becoming particularly interested in the asymmetry of the swing … Continue reading

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Fitbit visualization

For the last three weeks we have been wearing alternatively among the three members in our group a fitbit device. We collected all the data and these are some visualizations obtained with the results: Looking at the graphics the only thing … Continue reading

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Movement of the arm in the transverse plane

Simulation here: (Press “f” for Flexion and “e” for extension) http://half-half.es/images/applet/index.html          

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Biomechanics research: Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Alexander Refsum Jensenius (BA, MA, MSc, PhD) is a music technology researcher working in the fields of embodied music cognition and new interfaces for musical expression (NIME) at the University of Oslo and at the Norwegian Academy of Music. As part of his work in the IDMIL … Continue reading

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