JD1 - online instrument - melissa hamonic

The concept for my instrument is as follows:

I sampled different snippets of my father talking, the instrument will be a sliced image of him that plays different sound bytes as you pass over individual sections of the image. The idea is to bring my father's voice back into real-time, as the combination of words changes depending on how you scroll over the image.



the audio tracks are here

JD1 - Elia Morrison - BLOODY HELL MY POST JUST DISAPPEARED

*EDIT*
I am changing my images. Anatomy pictures. Don't have any yet, but I'll post them as I get them.

I want to keep it visually simple, I think that to have a successful thing on the internet one must recognize that people do not have the attention span needed to negotiate a complex or confusing web application.

Like I said, simple.
The idea I have is that the cells in the grid will activate sounds and then (maybe) become inactive and the sound will relocate to another cell.
For the sound I have some clips from an interview of sorts with my Grandmother. I'm going to cut these up into tiny bits that you will be able to piece together into full words and phrases.
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 3

Question: Can flash be made to play (sound) OR (sound)?

GS1 ok new idea guys

much more simplistic too. ihope u guys have input on this
i had this idea years ago

i want to get two girl to dress up like kids and turn double dutch skipping ropes.
except no one will be jumping in the middle. hopefully this will provoke someone passing by to attempt to jump in or at least interact with us in someone way . maybe to kick us out. i kind of want to create a felling of nostalgia. the other day io realized ive never seen my sister or anyone at the school across the street play jump rope. i think its like only in our generation and before us...kids are toobusy playing video games now...

i was thinking of having someone film us and well go to different locations to see what reactios we get..liek downtown in the business area...maybe in the halls at school.. and maybe even in a real play ground

what do u think?

GS1: Proposal a computer human head

Computers and humans are given simalarities to one another alll the time. Intelligence, memory and energy being some of the human characteristics computrers are given. And even something as simple as when a monitor is turned off it is a sad thing. It's almost like a blank face. Then you have the MAC computer moniters that can turn and be lowered or highered.

For this project I want to build a computer and instead of having a blank monitor I am constructing a silicon sculpture of a human head with big eyes around it. So the eyes will be where the moniter screen would be and the viewer would look into the computers eyes to see video footage (mine and found) and it would have no ears but a telephone where one of the ears would be so that the viewer in order to interact with it would have to pick up the phone and the computer would greet give instructions or in worse case scenario become very bratty.
I want to combine a human head and a computer inside it because our heads are like computers in a sense there is memory and intelligence there and the brain is often called the most flawless computer.
I want to create the experience of interacting with a computer and huma at the same time.
I want the viewer to feel like they are looking into someone's eyes when its really a computer and I want them hear what the person is thinking or instructing from their ears.

GS1 - Media Frenzy!!

I want to create an over powering of the viewers media sensors.

I want to show different types of audio/video media at equal levels.

In past presentations of this I have done 2 televisions and one audio player, but with this assignment I want to make a super media frenzy, with 3 television 1 projector and 1 audio player.

On what television I want to air either a documentary or I will shoot and edit my own short dramatic video, on the second television I want to show a porn film. I also want to project either over these televisions or somewhere else in the room a video with no audio of things that all viewers will know which noise should be coming out.

I have an image to post that explains this better and I will do that when I get home.

For the audio track I want to play powerfully pop music that makes the listener want to dance or at least bob their head. The idea behind this is that each medium will grasp the viewers attention for a short period of time, because the mediums will change there amount of intensity through out the screening. For example there may be an interesting part in the projection that will bring someone focus to it, then one may notify fast movements coming from the porn film and their attention will be brought to that. I want all of the audio levels to be at the same level so that you can easily sway your focus to other video/audio.

I hope this makes sense.

gs1 experience project

my idea was to create an experience which can be controlled by the viewer. i wanted their motion or presense to dictate if a sound or visual appears. in this way th viewer can decided how involved or interested they are in the piece because they control it in a way. i was thinking of using motion sensors(like in those backward lights)
not sure of the topic yet

JD 1 - Joe Song - assignment 1

For this assignment I recorded sounds from my room of me doing things such as clicking the mouse shuffling books and eating and flushing the toilet in the washroom. I found the my room part quite dull so I played around with it using Goldwave and got this amazing car sound using the filters and dynamics. After getting this product, I decided to incorporate the similar features to the toilet sound too and tweaked it with Goldwave and a music composing program called FL Studio. Finally I added an original song I made long time ago using Beaterator courtesy of Rockstar Games and voila the assignment is born. The photo was taken from Google and later altered using Photoshop. I wanted to show the monstrosity of how toilet water and car engines can be as equally gigantic interms of sound.

soundfile: http://www.savefile.com/files/1279491

for those who r in judith's workshop

Howdy everyone.
For those with pc (and mac) but not really used to the hi-tec programs we are introduced to, here's a little for y'all. It's called Goldwave and it's quite an easy-to-use program once you get the hang of it. Personally I haven't mastered it 100% but tweaking with it a bit here and there i got to it. you can download it for free @ www.goldwave.com
enjoy people!

Simone Jones's Makeup Workshop Date?

Does anyone know if the makeup workshops are happening this week, or the week after next? I was assuming it was starting the week after next, since she said she'll be in Spain next week.

Thanks.

Judith's First Assignment

Hi All,

Those of your starting off in Judith's group will be getting this assignment today. Of course, you'll all get it sooner or later, so feel free to read the details here!

ASSIGNMENT : ONLINE MUSICAL/AUDIO INSTRUMENT: Part One

“The sounds that we notice are merely bubbles on the surface of silence that burst.” John Cage

In a soundproof, sound-absorbing chamber at Harvard University, John Cage was shocked to hear two tones – one low, one high. The technician explained these were the sounds of blood circulation. From this, Cage made his famous observation - “There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.” His compositions challenged the very idea of music, often by drawing attention to ambient sound. (John Cage was a friend and chess partner of Marcel Duchamp's - who challenged visual art conventions in similar ways).

This assignment is inspired by Cage’s interest in ambient sound and chance compositional elements. You will begin with a listening exercise. “Be silent” in various indoor and outdoor locations. From this process, you will find a selection of sounds – a sound vocabulary or “octave” - for your online instrument. The sounds are yours to discover, but might include -

• traffic, cityscape, low drones
• clocks, devices, computers, alarms, ring tones, doorbells
• body sounds – typing, cooking, chopping, showering
• snippits of television, radio, music, ads and other samples
• environmental sounds – wind, birds, animals, tree creaks
• motor noises from inside the subway, car, POV sounds (as on a bike)
• fragments of conversation, poetry, selected words, commands, cookbooks

Record at least 2 of these sounds, and as many as eight or more. You may select them using chance methods, or through your own selection processes. Meanwhile, consider - what kind of images, photographs, colours, shapes, motion graphics, patterns or abstractions will be used to create the visual interface for your audio/musical elements, what users will “roll over” to explore and play with your sounds? And remember - for our purposes, "Simple electronic musical instruments are sometimes called sound effects; the border between sound effects and actual musical instruments is often hazy." From Wikipedia,

TO DO : Upload a sample visual image and a link to an MP3 format sound file to the class BLOG. Include a brief written report on your development process.

IMPORTANT : your title should begin with “JD 1” (so I’ll know it’s your 1st assignment for me!) . Include your real name.

Due Date : Monday, January 23, 2006

whoopdee do-dah

Hi, this is Joe Song posting a message here.
Erm, finally got this baby working right so thank that.
Thought I'd try a test post so here it is!(yay)

Schedule of Classes

Section 1 - Simone, Geoff, Judith
Section 2 - Judith, Simone, Geoffrey
Section 3 - Geoffrey, Judith, Simone

Home Rooms

Judith - 317G
Geoff - 358
Simone - 240, 343

nude descending a staircase

Marcel Duchamp's work will be discussed in class, including the painting "Nude Descending a Staircase".

JD1 - Elia Morrison Sounds

*EDIT*
I am changing my images. Anatomy pictures. Don't have any yet, but I'll post them as I get them.
_________
I want to keep it visually simple, I think that to have a successful thing on the internet one must recognize that people do not have the attention span needed to negotiate a complex or confusing web application.

Like I said, simple.
The idea I have is that the cells in the grid will activate sounds and then (maybe) become inactive and the sound will relocate to another cell.
For the sound I have some clips from an interview of sorts with my Grandmother. I'm going to cut these up into tiny bits that you will be able to piece together into full words and phrases.
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 3

Question: Can flash be made to play (sound) OR (sound)?