Our proposal is as follows: a miniature monophonic synthesizer. The onboard oscillator will be used, and programmed to a diatonic scale, 12 notes, based off of the note A4 @ 440Hz. The enclosure will be made out of plastic or wood, done by a 3D Printer or Laser Cutting Machine. The enclosure will have various…
Tag: sound
New Media Arts Blog 1 – Ivan Martinez
During the first day of class I thought I had a grasp of what new media arts was, but I looked deeper and found some interesting things. When looking through various pieces of art I had realized that my perception of the subject was different and I had to look deeper to understand it. I found…
Steve Zieverink’s 12+12
Steve Zieverink founded the Unit 2 Art Collective, is in the graduate program here at UIC, and is my teacher for Introduction to Time-Based Arts. 12 + 12 is an interactive piece that depicts the mathematical relations between sound and light wave frequencies. Viewers can “play” the piece by pressing buttons which correlate with the…
David Byrne’s Battery Maritime Building Project
Link to New York Times video of the installationArtist/musician David Byrne has this summer presented “Playing the Building”, a work in which the entirety of an empty ferry terminal building is converted into a musical instrument. An antique pump-style organ is used as the interface to “play” the structure- the workings of the organ have…
Mike McCracken’s Audio Ping Pong
Mike McCracken’s Audio Ping Pong using “an arduino, headphones and an accelerometer” to retrofit pong into an audio game. The object of the game is to tilt your head along with where the “ball” sounds like it is in space, if you stray off this path, you lose the game. As the game continues, the…