Our goal for the final project is to build a interactive instrument which can switch between different sound timbres and background environment sound texture responding to human body gesture interacting with LED light sensors.
We will be constructing a musical instrument interface to send data and control parameters to MaxMSP/Jitter which will actually create the music. Our controller ideas data flow are influenced by Kevin Patton and Carmon Montoya's workshop but hopefully will expand upon that making a system, that if you chose to and had the skill, you could play traditional familiar music with scales, notes, chords and such.
For the sound part, once Max receive a trigger from each individual LED light sensor. It will generate different banks of sound as well as background sound texture using MAX/MSP/Jitter. some specific object such as mono reverb and different types of filters which will be external max objects will be applied for the sound effects. Further more, once we are able to control the sensor confidently, we will try to create a piece based on human body gesture which can be interpret in to music sequenced in Logic.
The controller itself will be a freestanding battery controlled wireless arduino based device but using a gyroscope in addition to an accelerometer to more accurately track movement and allowing us to capture yaw (spin around a y axis) data which an accelerometer alone cannot do. Furthermore logic to decipher movement will be placed on the arduino chip making it a more universal controller. For example not only will 3 axis rotation data be available but imagine playing air drums that alter the instrument and or note to be triggered depending on the angle the controller is at when the initial strike starts. The controller itself will have some traditional button like inputs for finger input control except they will be pressure sensors allowing us a range of data depending on how hard we 'chord' the input. This aspect may be very similar to Kevin and Carmen's fossile input - I'm not exactly sure how there device worked.
Time and resource and technology permitting we will investigate other non-traditional forms of electronic input - specifically proximity detection through capacitive circuits like like a theremin but using ordinary Christmas tree lights.
Sources:
http://www.imagineeringezine.com/e-zine/capacitance-11.html
http://www.discovercircuits.com/C/capacitance-sw.htm
http://www.discovercircuits.com/DJ-Circuits/3vtchmom2.htm
http://users.otenet.gr/~athsam/touch_dimmer.htm
http://www.epanorama.net/links/lights.html#dimrouch fun sight to get lost on
http://www.akustische-kunst.org/maxmsp/
http://web.media.mit.edu/~tristan/maxmsp.html
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