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January 27, 2004
i walk around w/ speakers on my back @02:58 PM
so low tech perhaps is an ok way to go for this project.
the ability to perform space would be nice. it would make a good final project for 542/44.
the proposal would go something as follows:
step one: compose sounds
step two: embed sounds to locations around campus (maybe the zml instead). By embed, I mean give each sound 2 pieces of metadata -- an x-coordinate and a y-coordinate. When I enter within a radius of those zones, play one of the sounds.
step three - allow for more complex manipulation of the sounds. Can the sounds interact? Can I manipulate the sounds with gesture? Can running be a gesture? Rate of Speed? Lack of speed? If I just sit there, can the sound fade slowly out?
How can I let other people upload sounds & still access them easily, without too much of a wait. Probably streaming media. But this is not a great solution. Perhaps some type of software that recognizes the x,y metadata so that people can post a file on the internet, I can put the tagged sound in my system, and it will become an instrument. So that way, when you are interfacing with the system, it's more interesting to you as a performer, more interesting and unpredicatble to the audience, allows for a larger scale of interaction (from both parties, composer and audience), and allows the computer/performer to more wholly 'play' the space. So here's what people do: contribute info / sound files to a database. Anyone who wants to (who has the system I build) can download a series of "sound-location sets" which would be grouped somehow, like -- USC campus, or Robert Zemekis Center, or Soho, or Antartica. Etc. They can then insert those files into the system, and be on their merry way, creating sound with their own movement through the environment.
Note: it would be cool to do a performance where you were wearing big speakers, so everyone could hear you. It would be the mobile-geek answer to the ghetto-blaster.
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Hmmm, very interesting solution for now.
BTW, a link to Maryanne Amacher's IMMERSIVE AURAL ARCHITECTURES work (the composer I mentioned today:
http://www.kaiserworks.com/amacher/
and a (very large) pdf about her work on our server:
Download file
Posted by: sfisher at January 27, 2004 06:41 PM
Oops, that pdf link was:
http://interactive.usc.edu/archives/Maryanne Amacher.pdf
Posted by: sfisher at January 27, 2004 06:42 PM
There is a backpack made by Jansport which was written up in WIRED a few months ago. It had HI-FI speakers in the side pockets, so you could play tunes on hikes with your friends...for the enjoyment of all. Look into it, it may be an answer to your problem.
But then the problem could become volume...how many people would you want to hear you while performing...10, 100, 1000 and so on?
Posted by: Samuel McMullen at January 30, 2004 04:36 AM
I like this idea very much and would love to work on this. I think you hit on somthing interesting when you said, "if i just sit there, can the sound fade slowly out?" I find that this is probably the most intrigueing/gripping way of getting someone interested in a public media related piece of work/art. If the user is challenged to figure out the source and the cause, then loses it with the puzzlement, starts it back up with their movement, they are are all the more intrigued/agitated to learn more.
A note about the space, as it sounds now, I think this should be done on campus and definitely NOT in the Z center. Disturbances can be an issue, especially with classes and the variety of students moving in and out of spaces deemed "quiet" or "un-interruptable".
Oh, and I hate to pop your mobile-geek answer to the ghetto-blaster, but there is a dude that walks...no, sorry...skates along Venice beach with speakers strapped to his back as he plays the guitar. Check it out sometime.
Posted by: Mike at February 1, 2004 11:05 PM