Final Build

Updated Prototype

Here is a few pictures of my prototype fully working!

Each photoresistor controls different things such as rate of video, fading between videos, and sound. Although the piano is still present, I want to change it but have not figured out how, but it has a nice sound to it so I will keep it there for now.


Excuse the blurry images, camera was playing up. :(

Physical Model and Visual Ideas

My idea for visuals is finally put into fruition. Since my physical model will be affected by light, I wanted to show this through the footage. My concept is to use Wellington at Night as a theme, and use footage from Wellingtons lighting at night. As well as this, I will create artificial visuals in After Effects to compliment these videos. Here are a few pictures that I have used for inspiration. I will create some videos as well to show off my ideas.





Having discussed the layout of my electronics for this project, I set to work designing the layout for the photoresistors.


This was my first attempt to get the LSR working with Arduino2Max, which was succesful. I started designing a prototype to use for testing my visuals, but I ended up hooking up the resistors in the wrong series, but now I know where to put them!

Update

I've purchased a few photo resistors and have had some issues getting max to read the inputs from the Arduino, but with some fine tuning it should be all good.


As well as this, I have been playing around with the makenote object in Max, and you can produce some funky sounds with it. I was thinking of hooking these up to the photo resistors.

Reading

Having had a look at chapter 4, I found this comment in the composition section that I thought was very interesting.

"Abstract visuals could be better analyzed as if they were music, including their compositional strengths and weaknesses, rhythmic structure, beauty etc...Unfortunately, we are not used to listening to visuals but rather to watching them attentively, looking for a story"

Having this in mind when developing a visual piece is something that is somewhat inspiring. The comment "we are not used to listening to visuals" particularly because it says that we can actually 'listen' to visuals, we just need to train ourselves to do so. I dont know how relevant this is to my piece but I found it extremely interesting.

Conceptualising

I myself attended last years presentation for 305 and was particularly interested in Sebastians peice using the Foosball table. I wanted to take this idea and not use it in such a satirical setting and actually use it to generated an abstract visualization of soundscape.

One concept I keep coming back too is the mini air hockey table, here are a few ideas I am mulling over, specifically the idea of play.

Finished Object - 'Water Pump'