Video Diary

Heres a video with random clips of us all working hard on the theory and initial programming of the uPod installation.

The link to the full size video is here.

Peace.

- Leigh Davies

Contacts For Public Spaces

This project is only in a fledgling stage, but the interest in the potential interactivity of this installation has proven to motivate us in obtaining possible public space exhibit in the near future when it is working on a more advanced level.

Places in the near area like Newport, Cardiff and Bristol hold many potential places for us to seek advice from organisations who offer this oppertunity to interactive sonic art:

The Riverfront - Newport

g | 39 - Cardiff

iShed - Bristol

The Riverfront always seek to display works from up and coming artists, especially those from Newport or currently studying in Newport.

g39 and iShed being more developed multimedia based orginisations would be perfect to gather any information they have to offer with any possible offers they may have for us if the project was of any interest to them.

Will will be contacting these in the next week or two when our project has passed its first debugged test and our project is at least known to work in order for us to safely pitch the idea.

- Leigh Davies

Averages within Max

Having researched how to create a Normal Curve and obviously needing averages, we have discovered Max5 to have a built in average generator which should in theory produce values linked to a graph from input signal. The data we gather will need further editing in order to output the result we need.

Mean and Standard Deviation to create Normal Curve for Max

http://www.info.knovel.com/SolutionStories/meanstandardcalc1.gif

uPod Logo Design

Heres the logo design for the skin of the uPod patch.

- Leigh Davies

uPod logic flow

This is the logic flow of the program, this maps our method solidly.

MaxMSP Development #1

So far the MasMSP patch is working on a primitive basis, using a noise gate on the live audio input to trigger the actual recording of the live vocal.

The next stage of the patch is to let the audio input effect itself in real time, for example:

If the vocal is slower than an average vocal, the output will be even slower.

If the vocal is higher than an average vocal, the output will be even higher.

It basically exaggerates the characteristics of the vocal input. For us to do this, we will have to analyse the sonic characteristics of vocals recordings taken from a selection of people (both male and female) and take an average of certain kinds of 'vocals' including the emotive qualities and sonic qualities like speed and pitch.

The final addition will be to use the fiddle object in max and let the amplitude and pitch of the vocal input control visuals which will complete the interactive experience of the uPod.

- Leigh Davies

Enhanced Speech and the uPod

This project is an interactive media piece which will exaggerate the unique characteristics in voice by extrapolating the data it collects from the voice, live.