17/11/2017 First assignment

"(...)The greatest hypertext is the Web itself, because it is more complex, unpredictable and dynamic than any novel that could have been written by a single human writer, even James Joyce. The greatest interactive work is the interactive human-computer interface itself: the fact that the user can easily change everything which appears on her screen, in the process changing the internal state of a computer or even commanding reality outside of it.(...)"

"The New Media Reader" Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort: United States of America, 2003, pg. 15

I am sharing this sentence because I loved how it simply represents the potencial that the new technologies have and the fashination I have for it, which is the main reason why I chose to study animation.


Hello! I have to say this assignment was far from being easy for me. I tried so many different things (most of them not working) and changed idea so many times that I can't even remember all of them.

By the way we had to create an interactive project using Pure Data, that could be based either on sounds or image/animation. 

I tried to do both.

The first trial was to play music though PD and create an animation to go along with it.

 

I spent hours on this. It just didn't work, even trying to read WAV files. I am going to get back to it in the future.

So the final project consist in a sequencer, that sends the sound to an external syntetizer that I installed on the pc, and plays piano notes. Which sounds quite nice.

I doubled it, and made two different paths.

I also finally figured out how to connect  sound to video, and created two different polygons with Gem that react to my melodies and rotate on different axes, and added colours and lighting at the end.

I am so happy I found out how to make everything working exactly how I wanted!

Links:
PD Patch
FM7 synth Demo (install to read the patch)

Ciao ciao,

Eleonora 

 

References&Credits:

http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/basics/

http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/graphical-programming/

http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/what-is-digital-audio/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9y_xXC3jkA 

http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/fm7.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98nSwsFPGCo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZCrbit2DY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-VhkDUMwbs

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=interactive+gem+pd

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=interactive+gem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3PADcHuP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXnjOYVx9U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kua7TZtroY4 (very interesting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKbpuILTlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZF_wxMRAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boX0v54SqtU&t=279s