{"id":2643,"date":"2013-09-17T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T02:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2013-09-18T00:08:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T04:08:42","slug":"assignment-2-comfort-noise-by-haochuan-liu-ziyun-peng-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/?p=2643","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 2: \u201cComfort Noise\u201d by Haochuan Liu &#038; Ziyun Peng (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fini_500.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2652\" alt=\"fini_500\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fini_500.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fini_500.png 500w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fini_500-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/74789619\" target=\"_blank\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color: #333333;\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/74789619\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Idea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">People who don\u2019t usually pay attention to noise would often take it for granted as disturbing sounds, omitting \u00a0the musical part in it &#8211; the rhythm, the melody and the harmonics. We hear it and we want to translate and amplify the beauty of noise to people who didn\u2019t notice.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Why pillow?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The pillow is a metaphor for comfort &#8211; this is what we aim for people perceiving from hearing noise through our instrument, on the contrary to what noise has been impressed people.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When you place your head on a pillow, it\u2019s almost like you\u2019re in a semi-isolated space &#8211; your head is surrounded by the cotton, the visual signals are largely reduced since you\u2019re now looking upwards and there\u2019s not that much happening in the air. We believe by minimizing the visual content, one\u2019s hearing would become more sensitive.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Make<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We use computational tools ( <a href=\"http:\/\/puredata.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pure Data<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klingbeil.com\/spear\/\" target=\"_blank\">SPEAR<\/a>) and our musical ears to extract the musical information in the noise, then map them to the musical sounds (drum and synth ) that people are familiar with.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/at.or.at\/hans\/pd\/objects.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pduino<\/a> (for reading arduino in PD) and <a href=\"http:\/\/puredata.info\/Members\/vitaminx\/ponyomixer9000\/view\" target=\"_blank\">PonyoMixer<\/a> (multi-channel mixer) helped us a lot.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pd1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2659\" alt=\"pd\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pd1.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pd1.png 1001w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pd1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Inside the pillow, there&#8217;s a PS2 joystick \u00a0used to track user&#8217;s head motions. It&#8217;s a five-direction joystick but in this project we&#8217;re just using the left and right. We had a lot of fun making this.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sensor_500.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2655\" alt=\"sensor_500\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sensor_500.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sensor_500.png 500w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sensor_500-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s the mix box we made for users to adjust the volume and the balance of the pure noise and the musical noise extraction sounds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mixBox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2654\" alt=\"mixBox\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mixBox.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mixBox.png 500w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mixBox-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The more detailed technical setting is as listed below:<\/p>\n<p>Raspberry Pi &#8211; running Pure Data<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pure Data &#8211; reading sensor values from arduino and sending controls to sounds<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Arduino Nano &#8211; connected to sensors and Raspberry Pi<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joystick &#8211; track head motion<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pots &#8211; Mix and Volume control<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Switch &#8211; ON\/OFF<\/p>\n<p>LED &#8211; ON\/OFF indicator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idea People who don\u2019t usually pay attention to noise would often take it for granted as disturbing sounds, omitting \u00a0the musical part in it &#8211; the rhythm, the melody and the harmonics. We hear it and we want to translate and amplify the beauty of noise to people who didn\u2019t notice. Why pillow? The pillow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,5,44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-assignment","category-submission"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}