Today was the opening of the Soundbrige show. I have three pieces in the show 2 videos and one group of sound recordings. It is on 65 west 11th st on the 3rd floor. Here are some photos.
here is the show poster
One of the videos i have in the show “channel15″.
here is a link to my other video work: http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/midtermsite/video.html
I got to do two cool things this week. First i played another open mic at the Nightingale cafe on 2nd ave here in New York right off of 13th. I played the Homeswinger i made last week. It went pretty good and i had some fun. I just need to find more places to play. Here is a link to my other recordings, the song chopsticks(light blue) was done with my Homeswinger http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/midtermsite/noise.html.
on febuary 23 2010 i attended a workshop at the knitting factory with Yuri Landman who builds musical instruments. Myself and 5 others made the homeswinger which is the d.i.y version of Yuri’s instrument the moodswinger. I even got interviewed by a journalist that was there. It was a pretty fun workshop and i hope to use the homeswinger to get some new sounds.
here are some photos (from my palm pre…smh):
materials:
Drawing the scale:
finished!!! just need to add strings:
here is a link to the article:
http://dirtyhandsny.com/2010/02/28/landman-and-the-home-swing/
here is a link to Yuri’s work:
Here is something i’ve been working on in my interactive sound course. It’s an interface to control the playback of a sample. I tried to be as minimal as i could while also being interesting. This program was done in processing with minim. The interface consists of one line divided into two. The white line controls the sample looping points. While the other line controls the lowpass filter. In both instances i am using the mousex and y coordinates and mapping them.
this past saturday january 30, 2010 i got to do something i’ve never done. which has been happening alot since i moved to new york for school, i guess its the main reason i love it here so much. For a while i had been experimenting with chiptune music, back home in connecticut i would read about it and listen to it all the time, but there weren’t any others doing it where i was. So its weird that i come to new york and a few months later and with help from a friend i got to play the open mic at pulsewave at the tank which is at times square. It was actually before the true chip till death awards which was also really cool. Everyone said i did good and they were all really positive and supportive. I can’t wait to play again!!!
here are some links:
winners of the awards:
http://truechiptilldeath.com/awards/aw09/
8bitpeoples:
pulsewave:
and…….i’m Technofrosty by the way heres some of my sounds up on 8 bit collective:
http://8bitcollective.com/members/technofrosty/
and because she helped me heres a link to bubblyfish..thanks!!!
so here are a few things i’ve been up to.
first for my interface studio i helped start a group..we make sounds, we are called localhost. Before break on Dec 18 we had our first show
we are aiming towards having another in feburary.
next up:
over break i did lots of coding, i really want to try to do an externship at buglabs, you would get the hardware but you would have to make about 4 apps per semester for it, if i remember correctly. So i’ve been doing some java, trying to wrap my head around object oriented programming. Also i started working on some Xna and c# , i had some books around and decided to dig in. It was all and all pretty fun and gave me some ideas. One “game” in the book i used was based on colors and how the values roll over once they are over 255. In the game you pass the controller off to other players and they can hold or press the buttons as long as they want, they then pass the controller off to the next player. They player who makes the color roll over to zero loses.
so if you had the colors blue and red for example, you’d press or hold the button and if the screen remained a shade of purple there would be no loser. but if someone where to hold the button until the screen was purely red or blue they would lose. I was also interested in mobile processing. mobile processing is normal processing only its adapted for use on cell phones and can use the functions in the cell phone, for example you can control the vibration,bluetooth,and keypad of the phone. As a first project i decided to adapt the c#/XNA code for mobile processing. It was pretty hard at first i went through every cell phone in the house to see if they were java enabled. I ended up using my sisters blackberry.
i took this photo with my palm pre, wish it could do video so i could show how the app works, i’ll figure something out.
I also did some physical computing work. I love to make sounds so i built/rebuilt some pedals for my guitar. I built a 567 modulator with frequency,volume,and filter controls. The 567 is the chip used in touchtone phones to decoded button presses. It can make sort of tremolo sounds and ring modulator sounds. I also had to fix up the one i made earlier some connections came loose.
Around christmas i found a cheap toy keybaord and liked the sound so i took it and just added an output so i could use it with my amp. I’ll be posting some sounds soon.
here are links to things i mentioned:
some projects i’ve done in physical computing.
This is my toy organ, It was made using half of the 556 timer ic which is just two 555 chips in one. By pressing one of the buttons on the left side of the board you produce a tone which is determined by the values of the capacitors and resistors attached to the button.
This is a multivibrator, the two transistors are wired in such a way that when one is on the other is off. They switch from on to off and back and forth. The leds indicate which transistor is on, in this photo the transistor on the right is on.
This project uses the 556 chip again. This time i have the 556 running in astable mode, it is outputting a signal that goes from high to low or on to off. The leds in the upper right of the photo are used to help show what the signal is doing, if it were running one would blink off and one would be on, then they would switch. The speed all depends on the values of capacitors and resistors used.
Here is the 556 running in monostable mode. That means there’s just one signal coming out of the chip and it stays the same. The led is used here again so that we can see what the chip is doing.
Using Light
This is the first of two simple projects/circuits that used light as some type of control. Here is a project where we were given light to voltage converters. The converter is hooked up to the battery, then to the transistor which then outputs a signal that turns on the led. The converter acts like a switch and turns the transistor on and off. This is all dependent on whether light hits the converter or not.
Here is a similar project. This one uses a ldr or light dependent resistor. The ldr is connected to a transistor which then sends a signal to the led. The brightness of the led is determined by the amount of light that hits the ldr.
here are some links with more about the 556:
http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/555timer.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC
here are a few websites i’ve worked on during html class.
Designer toys:
this site just uses text from wikipedia, it’s about vinyl toys.
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/web/midtermsite/midterm.html
Image Gallery:
this site is a simple image gallery all about older apple computers.
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/web/06/gallery.html
Game systems:
this site is a site i built about older gaming systems i like. It features a few images for each system, and horizontal links.
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/web/05/04/index.html
this is the original version:
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/web/04/index.html
Tic Tac Toe:
the assignment here was to use a table to make a tic tac toe board and to have a clear winner.
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/web/03/two.html
Tokusatsu:
Tokusatsu are japanese special effects shows..think godzilla, power rangers, and ultraman. This site is about tokusatsu and links to an article about tokusatsu.
This is one large post that contains links to some of my processing work.
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/code/04/spheres/applet/index.html
this link will direct you to one of my first processing projects, its not really exciting but…it works. This piece of code simply draws a few ellipses in different locations inside the window.
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/code/05/autosketch/applet/index.html
This piece of code is a drawing program, you control how the ellipse is drawn based on your mouse x and y position. the colors change automatically.
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/code/05/autosketchV2/applet/index.html
here (above) is a link to a reworked version of the previous sketch, it draws ellipses and is controlled the same, the colors do change automatically. I have however changed the way they are rendered and added a readout of the x and y values which appear in the upper left corner of the window.
Processing drawing demo:
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/code/05/drawingdemo/applet/index.html
this sketch is a demo of processing drawing capabilities. It draws random squares of random colors withing the window continuously.
Drawing program:
http://a.parsons.edu/~davib611/code/05/multidraw/applet/index.html
this is a drawing etch-a-sketch like program. moving you mouse causes ellipses to be drawn, holding down the r,g,or b keys will cause the red,green,and blue values to be change this would change the color of the ellipses being drawn. if you have trouble using this in your browser…don’t worry so have i, i dont’ know whats up with this sketch. but when you do click on the link you can have the source code and run it on your actually machine if you download processing. i will try to fix this issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APYVEH_AAJ0
about the fllipbook:
This flipbook is about 50 individually drawn frames, if i had to comment on the narrative of this flipbook i would say that it is just about change. It starts out with the first image then morphs into others but in the middle of the sequence the blot of ink changes it’s self back to the blot that it started out as originally. The first frame also appears as one of the later frames in my second animatic.