Swing Thing created by Forrest Oliphant and Matti Niinimäki. The sound and images match when the two swings in sync.
Shadow created by Emmanuel Durand, Ranjit Menon and Daniel Praesius. Sound is controlled by shadow.
Historical Orchestra created by Reha Discioglu, Piibe Piirma and Ferhat Sen. Three instruments inspired by Turkish cultural heritage using digital technology.
Multitouch Table – aniMate created by Palash Mukhopadhyay, Irene Poutanen and Dipti Sonawane. Drawings get own life and move on the table.
Fretboard is based on linear potentiometer. You can get exact position of where you press. Works amazingly robust. Strings are laser-phototransistor couple. As for sound output, now we are using soundfont and sensor data is randomly mapped to soundfont notes. Thus, mapping is again not clear 🙂 Photos and video available.
Drum has a circular body and a drum skin. Two piezo’s are attached to the drum skin. Those two piezo’s are linked to two drum notes. The tangible interface is there. Technology there. But mapping is not so exciting yet. Two notes doesnt sound nice. Needs some work.
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Dec 3, 2010Comments Off on Historical Orchestra (Ney Production)
Our Reed Flute (Ney) is on its way. Photo-resistors and a small mic are attached to a backbone which will then be inserted into a hollow tube.
Mic sends audio signal thru line-in of the computer and processed in PureData. The audio is filtered out only to take certain frequencies which correspond to blowing. So it hopefully will not sense when you talk 🙂 but when you blow. The amplitude of the blow is also processed and the more you blow the louder the sound. Working smoothly.
Photoresistors send analog data. Taken via Arduino send to PureData. Working great. Quite responsive.
Problem is now the mapping strategy. How can we map these processed inputs to the “song”. We were using soundfont but I guess we will map it directly to loops and control the loops with photoresistors. Mapping is still unclear.
Here’s the website where you could download plans etc. for building motion modules using Lego. Dipti & I have used tons of these in workshops that we’ve conducted earlier. They really work well 🙂
It is the “Paja” of the University of Lapland. I was working there last spring and summer planning on what equipment to buy and testing all of the parts. I also wrote some tutorials on how to use certain sensors and other equipment with the Arduino. The part specific instructions can be found on the Equipment page. Some of them are still just dummy pages, but you can find some useful information also.
