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Project 2 Josh Coolidge

A simple robot, suggestive of an organism, which turns its head towards a light. Ideally, I'd like to give it the ability to switch over to follow a shadow (like the user/audience's hand), and to make sounds determined by the pattern of head movement. If I'm really on fire, I'll make two that listen to each other and play different tones in response.

Unless I think of something else first.

Jeff Ray
This is simply an extension of the synth project, (project one) but adding a light sensor to control sounds, as well as a mini laser show. The Bonsai Tree is merely an aeshetic choice that houses the controller, and allows the laser to shoot through the trees. I want to be able to add other sensors to control other media such as video. I also want to explore the possibility of using the branches to trigger other media events. I am also exploring bringing max msp into the controller to further add to the variety of sounds and controller options. This will be an actual tool/project that I will use to perform with my experimental folk/electronic music group. The bottom picture is a touch controller that Josh emailed me about. Somehow, someday I want to work with this as well.









Project proposal 2
====I want to make a dancing robot figure dance when a viewer approaches it using a photocell. This should be easier than my first project because I just need to hook up one photocell. It would be awesome to have music play as well but it all depends on the amount of time it will take to get it to work.====

-Jeremiah Allen Welch
Eric Caselton-

A video screen..... A looping video of a person standing still....

A chair in front of the video screen..... If the viewer sits in the chair.... A video plays of the person sitting down, then loops the person sitting still..... .... if the viewer stands up from the chair, the video plays the person standing up, then back to the standing loop.

There will also be a button the viewer can press while they are sitting. The button will cause the person in the video to become naked, and loop the person sitting still while naked until the viewer releases the button...

-eric caselton

Danny's Ideas:
=**Teleplatonics**=

My idea is a system like teledildonics, but for platonic friends. Instead of a sexual device being controlled remotely, it will be a device that pats someone on the back.
====Person A sits in one room, with the teleplatonics machine at her command. With a click of her mouse, she can control the teleplatonics machine. Person B sits in another room, with the teleplatonics machine positioned near his back. Everytime Person A clicks, the teleplatonics machine will pat Person B in the back gently.====

Possible solutions: Maybe I'll just run a really long wire from Person A computer. And the machine can be built with a simple motor.
=Travel Piece By Yoko Ono By Danny Pan <- going with this one.=

1963 Spring
Mary Franck: Project 2: the arduino will control speaker volume via a transistor spliced into the speaker wire, and also sound recording and playback with the speaker board we looked at in class. this will be controlled by anomaly, a sculpture I made last year which uses hall effect sensors to sense movement of kinetic parts. this will require re-doing the electronics for that and implementing the new speaker and sound board aspects. [|www.anomalyinstallation.net]

The other thing I am working on are silicone jellyfish with leds and solenoids controlled by light and vibration (piezo electric) sensors.

In a small dark room, the viewer touches a video screen. The touch of the viewer's finger triggers sound related to the images on screen. The sounds become louder and softer according to the amount of touch and pressure the viewer places onto the screen.
 * Touch, Image, Sound

-Meridith Henley

Project 2Ben
This project will use recorded sound as a response to the drunken cacophony that emanates from the bar underneath my apartment.
 * Deaf from above**==

Every single night beginning just before last call and ending, at times, around 4 am the soundtrack from what seems like a cross between carnival and two cats fighting in a sack rises, amplified by the architectural acoustics on my street, up into all of the windows of all the surrounding buildings.

Of course this annoyance is the price I pay for choosing to live where I do. Nevertheless, nowhere does it say I cannot contribute.

I will construct a sound device that will play sounds back at the patrons of the bar from a loud speaker that is strategically hidden on my roof. My hope is to, at first, confuse and disorient the mass with sounds of growling wild animals and funny clown noises.

After a few weeks of this, I will move into a more aggressive area with sudden bursts of harsh electronic noise – static, screeches, etc.

In the case of a brawl (of which I have witnessed 3 in my residence here. Once about 15 guys all pulled their belts off and whipped the shit out of each other in the street) I will have a boxing match qued up, complete with “Vegas” announcer, bell and punching sound effects.

I do not expect this to make my situation any better. In fact, I may end up only antagonizing those whom I wish would just shut up. On the other hand, by engaging this gaggle with sounds that are out of context to their states of mind, perhaps I will reach a level of communication that will bring unexpected and hilarious results.

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=anti-communication suitAn anti-communication suit that will include a similar circuit to project one’s voice activated mechanism via optocoupler. The helmet contains a pair of head phones connected to an audio source that plays samples from everyday soundcapes. The headphones are activated as soon as someone speaks to the suited surveyor, but as soon as the speaker stops, so do the samples. When the suited individual speaks back the speaker will produce only muffled sounds.crystal || ||

Beware of Dog

My project idea is to have a little toy dog and connect it to a photocell. When you approach the dog (blocking light), it will begin to bark at you (operating on its normal mode). The idea I have is that when it begins to bark that the viewer can bark back at the dog and the dog will bark louder. This should be pretty entertaining seeing someone trying to outbark a little toy.

Problems: Opening up the toy and checking if the volume can be increased/decreased.

Additional things I would like to do: altar the audio the toy makes from the regular yippie mecahnical sound to an audio of a large pitbull or larger canine.

[|toy dog]

-Rosemary Alonso

Hold that Shot
I want to set up a viewing station, where the viewer sits down in front of a TV that is running a video at an incredibly high rate of speed. In order to slow down the footage, the viewer needs to squeeze the joystick attached to the TV. The harder he squeezes, the slower the footage gets, down to almost stopped (but not quite.) I want to reintegrate the tangible human force into the constantly flowing media that surrounds us to the point that we lose our own sense of body within it.

To Do: Buy a Flex sensor. Figure out how to let the viewer understand the game, and how I can make them "play the game."

- Eric Gladstone


 * Is everything here?**

Goal: to find use a proximity sensor (rfid? other) that would detect and identify that the presence of 5 different objects in a bag. There will be a small object that lights up in a different way (color, shape) each time one object is recognized. When the 5 objects are in the bag, all the lights are on and maybe a sound comes out to say that all is there.

OR

From an acrylic puzzle piece, that I made before. The idea is to have multiple leds light up inside the puzzle depending on sound levels in the environment.
 * City Lights**

- Aïcha Doucouré

Lauren Bjelde in brief:

I am going to create a painting that can be viewed at any time of the day - even when the lights go out. When evening comes along, or a room gets darker for another reason, the painting will suddenly light up with woven EL wires. I plan on using a photocell for this.

In addition to light, the painting will react to sound, looping a track of some sort that changes depending on audio frequencies in the room.

Ultimately I would like this piece to be interactive with it's environment, not necessarily the people in it, though they may play a role.

Mitchell Hall

My plan is to create a small group of electronic backup singers.

Each one will have a system that detects a sound level. When the microphone picks up sound at a certain volume, it will activate a program that controls a sound chip with three pre-recorded vocal clips. The program will play one of the clips at random.

When a singer sings in front of these units, they will detect the sound and add their own "voices" to the mix. The sound detection will will cause them to interact with each other as well as the human singer, creating a randomly-generated performance of various vocal harmonies.

For the purpose of this class, I think I'll be doing good if I manage to complete just one unit.