{"id":1992,"date":"2012-11-08T05:04:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T05:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall1\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2012-11-08T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T05:06:08","slug":"atomic-milestone-level-three-audiyou-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall1\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Milestone Level Three: Audiyou and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things have taken a turn!<\/p>\n

I am not feeling the project as much, and am proceeding towards a different goal. It is titled Audiyou and Me<\/em> and it is a musical-composition social mixer event. Its objective is to demonstrate that the creation of music is not an elite educational undertaking, but rather a simple activity that can be done with friends. It does this through the use of a simple smartphone instrument and a central hub that randomly groups people into ad-hoc ‘bands’.<\/p>\n

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Here is how it works, from small to large scale:<\/p>\n

SMALL: (How the instrument works.)<\/p>\n

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  1. It is essentially a step-sequencer! On your phone!<\/li>\n
  2. A grid of toggle-buttons with a super-imposed bar that moves from left to right.<\/li>\n
  3. When the bar passes a button, it will play the corresponding note if the button is on.<\/li>\n
  4. The higher a button is in the grid, the higher pitched the note will be. Alternatively (for drums) they will be labeled.<\/li>\n
  5. tonematrix.audiotool.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    MEDIUM: (How a band works.)<\/p>\n

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    1. You are assigned a band! Find your bandmates now. Your phone screens all turn a matching solid color to facilitate this.<\/li>\n
    2. Now pick a band name quickly! Now everyone choose an instrument (HIGH, MIDD, BASS, DRUM)!<\/li>\n
    3. Now you are in music mode. You can see and hear the notes of your bandmates as well as your own! Construct an interesting melody together.<\/li>\n
    4. Eventually your music will start coming out of the big speakers – performing live! It will alternate between your sounds and those of another band.<\/li>\n
    5. It’s over! Now different bands are formed and the process continues.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      LARGE: (How a round works.)<\/p>\n

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      1. The event will be split up into different rounds, each with different sounds, tempos, time signatures, and suchlike.<\/li>\n
      2. Each round will begin with everyone paired into two-person bands (and the odd three-person band, of course).<\/li>\n
      3. For the first half, it will follow the general scheme above, with two bands playing at any one time.<\/li>\n
      4. As each pair of pairs finishes performing, they will swap partners to form new bands.<\/li>\n
      5. For the second half, some bands will simply group together and form a bigger band instead of just swapping members. This causes the average band-size to increase.<\/li>\n
      6. After bands have gotten to a certain size, it ends.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        MONDO: (How the event works.)<\/p>\n

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        1. There are a number of rounds. Each round has a different set of audio samples.<\/li>\n
        2. The first rounds will be very simple. Steady beats and friendly sounds and such.<\/li>\n
        3. As the evening ages, the rounds will be more complicated. They might have weird time signatures or funny syncopations built in. The time between a band forming and a band performing will decrease. The length of the sequencer’s phrase might get longer too.<\/li>\n
        4. Naturally, the final round will end with the Full Band consisting of all attendees.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

           <\/p>\n

          So that’s a thing. One important sidethought is to consider what separates this from a simple tech demo. The aspect that accomplishes this is the systematic structure of the whole event. Audiyou and Me<\/em> takes a basic element – the sequencer – and builds a social mixer structure around it. This is analogous to a square dance, which takes some simple dance moves and builds a whole partner-exchange system around it. Audiyou and Me<\/em> is trying to remind me people that making music (just like dancing!) is a wonderful activity that does not require extensive education to be enjoyed.<\/p>\n

          PROGRESS:<\/p>\n

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          1. I have built a basic step sequencer on Android. It can load sound files or generate them on the fly.<\/li>\n
          2. I have a basic webserver interface that is easily accessible from any device with internet. It collects data. (Python)<\/li>\n
          3. I have a basic control panel in openFrameworks that connects to the webserver and plays the current Live music.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            WHAT NEXT:<\/p>\n

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            1. Finish up the basic control panel.<\/li>\n
            2. Make the interface more user friendly. Have band stuff happen.<\/li>\n
            3. Have things ready to test by Monday.<\/li>\n
            4. From there, more interesting sounds and other features like that.<\/li>\n
            5. Also, fixing whatever bugs we discover!<\/li>\n
            6. Next milestone will have videos.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              That is all for now? Good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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