The NIME class and larger concept are chiefly what brought me to ITP (along with projects like Pac Manhattan and a fierce appreciation of blinky lights), and I’ve been looking forward to injecting my musical past to my nerdy work for well over a year. I’ve had this idea kicking around in my head for about a year now of trying to turn samples into shapes, letting me play with them with my bare hands. I always find myself frustrated when I’m working with samples, trying to trim and moosh and alter them, and mouse-clicking my way around is both time-consuming and frustrating, and of course not something worth trying in a live performance. So, I’m hoping to address all that with this project.
I’d started looking at architectural shapes and conceptual designs, especially the ones that looked to me like wave file a
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So then I started thinking about the physical interface itself, and how I’d be shaping things, and I came to the idea of event tents (and pup tents, as pictured here). If at every point on this the poles could be adjusted, changing an attribute about the sound, it’d be a great way to work with pieces of audio — and ideally, I could also have the form assume the shape of incoming audio.
Here’s the presentation I gave in class — far more to come, of course.
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