Show a Thing notes

Met with 5 reviewers this morning (afternoon Berlin time) so presented back to back 4 times, short break, then a fourth. I’m used to intensity in performance and presentation (I’ve also done 2 NYU incubators this semester with a lot of pitching). I recorded each session and took pertinent notes. I’ll record some of the poignant insights from each.

Gottfried Haider, idea: Iteration where each person with a sensor has their own speaker, like each person in a corner, and see if their hearts sync up. Need a very responsive heart rate sensor with short ms delay to that when the heart beats, it comes out of the speaker and the other people’s ears, brains, and bodies feel that beat and have a chance to sync up.

Enrique Garcia, explore MQTT vs WebRTC for transmission speed of brainwave data. Felt community projects had more impact than an individual experience.

Heidi Brant, Helped me realize that the only event where I spiraled up into ecstasy was the only show that I performed outdoors.

Tiri Kananuruk, if I did spatialized signals in the 50 speaker room, would I need several stations, several headsets? Have different stations with EEGs in different places? Or one computer in the middle with 2 EEG’s connecting to it, rendering spatially? Would I need multiple computers?

Adam Colestock, 1) When you scale up the size of a crowd or group, you lose responsivity 2) If you have multiple hearts being sonified, you’ll lose the trance effect, but could quantize the beats 3) Steven Strogaz about synchronicity

When practicing my pitch over and over, I saw what was out of order or irrelevant, so I was able to edit my deck to have a better flow this evening. I also switched from Google Slides to XD so I can have a more professional looking deck.