So this is a project that I have started working on after watching this video:
Basically in this video, the author has used Max/Msp, Jitter and Flash to create this game of Pong. He is using his voice volume to control one of the paddles of pong and the second paddle is controlled by a motion sensor picking up the yellow scissors from his live video camera.
I have started working on a four paddle game of pong using a program called processing. Processing is a free, open source program using its own language to program animation, graphics, digital art, games and much more.
I have used a basic code to get the backbones for my game of pong. I wanted it to be a four paddle game to make it faster and more fluent. My thought is to have 4 microphones, each controlled by either pitch or volume. Every time a players paddle strikes the ball I want a random sample specific to that paddle to trigger. On the event of no paddle striking the ball, a loosing sample will be played. basically the paddles are a trigger to set of random samples, manipulated and controlled withing max/msp. As well as the paddle strikes a constant musical extract or ambient sound would be playing in game to keep the music fluent with the loops adding to the music and making it new.
I'm wanting this to be an interactive experiment as well as a compositional experiment.
Friday, 15 April 2011
iPod Touchings
I just got a brand new iPod touch 4th gen and was looking into areas of using this with max5. Some of the features of the new iPod include: 2 cameras (one on front and one on back), one of which films in HD, Speaker, Touch screen, Movement/motion sensors, light sensor (to adjust brightness of screen to lightness), 4 push buttons, multi touch functionality and a usb out. This gives many avenues for the iPod to be used and manipulated to a musical instrument or some sort of trigger or control pad.
This is just one video I've found of someone using their iPod touch to manipulate max. The user here transports midi information to max with use of the motion sensors to create a new composition out of the loops and notes at his disposal.
I was thinking myself of new ways I could use the iPod.
At first I thought of a practical sense that could benefit me. As a working DJ that uses the program traktor, I have seen that you can download apps for the iPod that allows for a quick touchscreen cue, play and waveform. I was thinking that alongside laptop use if you know your set inside out you could use the motion sensors of the iPod to trigger a loop that you have cued up on the iPod. Flicking your wrist along to a beat would play the loop that you have cued, with every flick the loop is stopped and restarted,, the main menu button on the iPod to play the new next waveform from its cue and the screen itself could show the waves and faders so you can easily fade out one track into the next, touch to position your cues or have a manual play and stop button.
Possibilities composition wise are endless. The built in light sensor could be used as a trigger as could the HD video camera. Perhaps when a light change is detected the iPod could automatically record whatever is in front of it, information could be transfered out and that video of whatever length could be played back on computer.
The motion sensors could be used to manipulate waveforms, velocity and pitch much like the video shown earlier as well as triggers for loops. The multi touch screen also could be ideal for the manipulation of waves or as trigger pads, being able to turn samples on and off without having to do one at a time or alternatively manipulating a wave in different ways all at once.
I'm going to hook my iPod into max soon and work out what exactly can be played with and to what extent.
This is just one video I've found of someone using their iPod touch to manipulate max. The user here transports midi information to max with use of the motion sensors to create a new composition out of the loops and notes at his disposal.
I was thinking myself of new ways I could use the iPod.
At first I thought of a practical sense that could benefit me. As a working DJ that uses the program traktor, I have seen that you can download apps for the iPod that allows for a quick touchscreen cue, play and waveform. I was thinking that alongside laptop use if you know your set inside out you could use the motion sensors of the iPod to trigger a loop that you have cued up on the iPod. Flicking your wrist along to a beat would play the loop that you have cued, with every flick the loop is stopped and restarted,, the main menu button on the iPod to play the new next waveform from its cue and the screen itself could show the waves and faders so you can easily fade out one track into the next, touch to position your cues or have a manual play and stop button.
Possibilities composition wise are endless. The built in light sensor could be used as a trigger as could the HD video camera. Perhaps when a light change is detected the iPod could automatically record whatever is in front of it, information could be transfered out and that video of whatever length could be played back on computer.
The motion sensors could be used to manipulate waveforms, velocity and pitch much like the video shown earlier as well as triggers for loops. The multi touch screen also could be ideal for the manipulation of waves or as trigger pads, being able to turn samples on and off without having to do one at a time or alternatively manipulating a wave in different ways all at once.
I'm going to hook my iPod into max soon and work out what exactly can be played with and to what extent.
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