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Our Modern Love Story

Yves Pokakunkanon

A collection of computer generated poetry that analyzes the relationship between two people with an attempt to find the underlying meanings of thoughts and feelings they exchanged over conversations, text messages, e-mails, and letters.

Description

This project consists of 3 poetic pieces that analyze the relationship between two people with an attempt to find the underlying meanings of thoughts and feelings they exchanged over conversations, text messages, e-mails, and letters.

'Excerpts From That One Time We Did Not Get Into A Fight'
Excerpts generated from a transcript of a conversation between two lovers. If we rewrite phrases with selections of only negative vocabulary, can the results sound like something a couple would quarrel over? Can they be topics to discuss relationship improvement? Or can it simply make us see how nonsense things we argue about are?

'How Our World Works In A Weird Way'
Inspired by 'So Sad Today: Personal Essays' by Melissa Broder, this is a set of poems that shows how minds work in certain situations, and how something can be contradicting yet reasonable in a strange way. Source text is from complaints and compliments a couple give each other over text messages.

'From The Past You To The Future Me'
This piece is a composite of postcard, e-mails, and letters between two people in a long distance relationship. Each sentence, generated with the Markov-chain method, was selected and put together randomly to form a new love letter that has distinctive meanings from the original text.

Classes

Reading and Writing Electronic Text

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White Mountain, Black Water

Chenhe Zhang, Yves Pokakunkanon

An installation that explores the characteristics of water and utilizes them to create interactive music experiences.

https://http://chenhezhangnickitp.hosting.nyu.edu/music-interaction-design/music-interaction-design-10th-week/

Description

Inspired by 'Water Pachinko' by Hara Kenya, 'White Mountain, Black Water' is an attempt on brining regular everyday substance to life.

In this project, we study the characteristics of water movement and its potential to create sound. By letting water drops traveling down through a white canvas that has small pins attached to it as obstacles, the water drops can either change direction, multiply into several drops or combine with other drops each time they hit the pins. This allows the water drops to move around vividly, putting life into it.

A microphone is installed next to the bowl below the canvas to collect the sound of the water dropping and use it as one of the sound sources. A camera will track the pace and positions of each water drops, turn them into numbers which will be translated into Midi notes. Each time water is being dropped to the canvas, it will make different sounds, emphasizing the uniqueness in movement of each water drop.

User will be able to use water as a musical instrument and perform with it while enjoying organic sounds created by water, mixed with electronic melodies that represent far-east style instrumental music.

Classes

Music Interaction Design