When I say you say

Here is a try at the lab. Couldn’t get the motor to work, but the video below shows that something did work.

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA.

The medium is the message.

Automation does creates roles for people. and we do need to adapt.

It’s what we do with the machine and how the machine changes us and the way we interact with one another. The message is the change in how we do things. He mentions that the railroad didn’t introduce transportation, but it accelerated it.

“Whether the light is being used for brain surgery or night baseball is a matter of indifference.”

The activities mentioned above are the content of light, since they don’t exists with out it. This creates a relationship between the activity and the medium. 

“If the TV tube fires the right ammunition at the right people it is good.”

“If it works, it’s obsolete.” 

“it is the grosser and participant forms of art that seem “hot,” and the abstract and intensely literary form that seems “cool.”

“Cubism, by seizing on instant total awareness, suddenly announced that the medium is the message.”

“There is a basic principle that distinguish a hot medium like radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the movie from a cool one like TV.”

“whereas paper is a hot medium that serves to unify spaces horizontally, both in political and entertainment, empires.”

ELECTROACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION.

sound wave into the audio signal. physical form to digital form.

The forgery of the original sound. 

Record companies enjoy the increasing fidelity because we as consumers think it’s better.

Before electroacoustic technology sound was bound to a limited area.

Telegraph transmitted sound through large distances.

Electroacoustic repetition changes our listening attitude. background listening. leitmotif.

Storing sound breaks a time constraint. objectifying sound. We transform an event in time to a physical medium, that exists in space! CDs, Vinyls, Mp3 players. etc…

Objectifying sound is a commodity that can be bought. 

Then we can manipulate sound!

schizophonia: various examples of amplified music and voices. * the split between the original sound ant its copies.

Choice of environments. headphones.

Moosak: competing background music in shopping malls.

just getting in the habit of posting….but i like this one:

MCSquared is a collaborative effort between India, Filippo and myself.
India’s blog
Filippo’s blog

This is our midterm project for Physical Computing. The idea began with a short conversation between filippo and I before we joined efforts as a group, we joined forces with India and I think we all enjoyed working together. It’s a little venture into germ-free-motion-detecting-touch-less instruments.

We used 6 IR sensors that were plugged into a foam cube. Our code came together thanks to help from Mustafa, Oscar, and Jeremy. The idea was for the sensors to trigger sound, in our case, we triggered drum sounds and loops.

We successfully had each sensor trigger drum sounds! Much like this drawing!

first sketches by filippo.

and this is a shot of the final product:

(symbol design by India)

the standmakes it work!

final version (in class shot).

Here is an early video of us testing the IR sensors. Loops in place!:

Yasser is the man that branded our project with MCSquared! A complete ITP moment while working on our project, the instant feedback / ideas on this floor are great.

MCSquared was finished early the in the morning/late at night Oct. 23.

Midterms Done! Here is the pdf of the presentation India put together:PRESENTATION!

mc^2

Angela Chen and I created an processing application that parses the NYTimes’ obituary for the latest glamorous deaths. Thanks to Craig Kapp who helped us lots.

In this version you are able to grab the obit circle and drag it around. The color also changes as you grab the obit circle.

Download the Mac and Windows version.

Maybe the circles could be happier.

angle = 360/1.6180339887;
angleInc = random(PI/30);

that’s the change plus added layers of circles to almost even make containers.

Now the obituaries look a bit more playful as if they are selected then they follow the mouse and change color. They spin in their own orbits with each interaction the color will change randomly. The NYTimes RSS is parsed every time the application starts. A web applet is being thought, but my code doesn’t work even when the application is signed. who knows why!

ICM team: angela, diego.

interactive commentary on the number deaths and weddings from bourgeoisie posting in the new york time.

This project, an interactive platform, intends to visually magnify people’s fascinations with obituaries and weddings by comparative juxtaposition. The user will be faced with selecting these announcements through a visual experience that is smooth and engaging. These evens will differentiate themselves by rotating in their own particular swarm of shapes. A rollover function will active an attraction between the mouse pointer and the rotating objects. An information panel with the info from the NYtimes RSS feed will be displayed after an object has been selected. This object will go back to rotating once the user is through reading the information.

There are intriguing ways to experience online searching differently. There is a certain involvement between the person searching and the interface that can be manifested differently. The text input box can be a thing of the past when we can all get used to more interactive ways to search. Although I just thought this is a way of search, but it is more a way of being exposed to information.

angelas' sketch

Since the idea was brought up I have visited  these sections a couple of times.

RSS feeds from the NYtimes

Angela showed me how Etsy.com has different ways to shop. you can search through color, time…etc.

Swarms of shapes oscillating/rotating around 2 foci. (micro galaxies watch discovery channel on the subject.)

fascination

the video above is lab 6 for physical computing. I didn’t use an accelerometer cause they were all sold out at the books store. i decided to use the Ir sensors because my group and I are using them for our Mid term.

The sensors control the x and y axis of the ball, while the digital switch turns the ball on and off. India helped with the switch holding as i moved my hand to control the processing circle.

Telling a story through sequential boxes!

Asli and I picked a Mario Bros theme, and used screen shots from an emulated Mario Bros. 2 game. Photoshop was used to merge their world with ours! With lots of masking, sharpening, cutting, pasting….etc, etc….Comic life was used to put the comic together.

The Story: Mario moves to Greenpoint from the Mushroom kingdom. Meets Luigi and the rest of the gang @ ITP. Our classmate Ozge becomes obsessed with Mario, while the princess gets dumped. Luigi and Toad have a hard time adjusting to “this world’s” freaky rules and are powering up as they used to. Only to discover they can never die.

this was 1/3 of our inspiration for the comic:

thanks to patrick for the recall quote.

“I don’t care whatta people think. They haven’t seen halfa the shit I have.”
-Mario

Links

loopqoob
another musical cube thing that plays loops; controlled by rotating the cubes
http://www.muratnkonar.com/id/loopqoob/video-conceptdemo.shtml
cat + theremin
anyone can play one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONJfp95yoE

Jon Spencer theremin demonstration
a virtuosic performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyF_UN8g9f0

A cuboid musical instrument that detects motion from each side and generates sounds (and, in the beta version, light) in response. It can be played by one person (or cat) or many. Mounted on a tripod so that the height is adjustable, to suit the user(s).

Each side will be visually distinct in some way—

• alpha: colors
• beta: maybe images of traditional musical instruments, if we use loops of sounds from different ones

We considered using more than one kind of sensor—e.g., IR on 3 sides, force on others—but decided that that would be too confusing to new players. For an intuitive interface, all six sides should behave the same way.

Finally we get to merge the physical world with computational world.

Using Arduino and Processing!!

Here is my serial configuration

Now here is the potentiometer in action:

Give it a twist: