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.