JAYIS UH_MPP: May 2013

From the last session that i having the tutorial, i found that i can taking kelvin advice to merge some part of my 1st idea with the 3rd one as both of them have some interesting element on it.

I will carried on with music installation, following the an example of the music installation called Communion from FIELD

Communion from FIELD on Vimeo.

We can see this installation is animating the communion and essentially evolution them to small creature. This video is not really about interactivity but i intend to show it because of the expression of the graphical element sync with the music to create a larger impact. I'll truely believe this kind of installation can bring a more emerging and interactive experience to the audience that why I still going on with the musical & light installation idea.

Ste Justine musical wall from from Moment Factory also shown how musical installation can get interest from audience and make them interact with it.

Ste Justine musical wall from Moment Factory on Vimeo.

In this project, I wan to make a more artistic musical installation that exhume people underlaid musical talent that can place in any exhibition/ event hall.

In the journal of Kindling the Spark: Recognizing and Developing Musical Talent by Joanne Haroutounian, Ph D talk about how they develop talented musiciant by making people imaging the further depth of the music without a proper rytheme and developed with it. LINK

Joanne also quote the following from Seashore too:
"According to Seashore: “After a comparatively early age, these capacities do not vary
with intelligence, with training, or with increasing age. .. It makesthe diagnosis oftalent
possible before training is begun and pointsto certain very definite principles of music
education. . It isthe meaning, and not the capacity, of these forms ofimpression which
we train and which matures with age in proportion to the degree of intelligence and
emotional drive. “ Carl Seashore Psychology of Music 1938"

In this article Musical Talent: Innate or Learned? by —Julie A. Wojcik, M.Ed., NCSP

She had said:" Researchers recognize such indicators of precocious musical talent as an innate ability to identify pitch" She had claim that the musical talent is innate and only required a exploitation.

Music, Mind, and Meaning by Marvin Minsky Chapter one - Why Do We Like Music? had mention nowadays people can play music because of environmental influence, somehow like if we can sing means we can play music and we having the musical cell in our body .Beside, the article also mention we having a culture immersion every few hour once we having radio or musical song around us and touching and influence our emotion to absorb the music "particle".

So, In the few point above i believe that my musical installation idea might be really works to show out the interested from the audience/ player. Maybe not everyone can play a nice music, but atleast in this culture almost everyone of us could have the interest on music element and having a high percentage that they could play with it.

In the installation that i planned to do is include the usage of colour changing bulb led that i had shown in the last post. With the help of the ambience lighting effect, it can affect human mood and social behavior.

Different kind of light colour also having different effect, in the press realease from PNAS- The color of ambient light influences our mood had briefly talked about how the brain had works and affect our mood when we are in different lighting, and create more imaging when in the certain lighting environment.

Interactive Main Stage @ Trailerpark Festival 2011 from Dark Matters had created a light interaction installation control by movement of the hand tracking by kinetic camera.
Interactive Main Stage @ Trailerpark Festival 2011 from Dark Matters on Vimeo.

This is the visual that my project will like to be:
Scan Processor Studies (excerpts pt.1) from Brian O'Reilly on Vimeo.

Another same interface that i will like to use as my installation, i found out this kind of interface called Sandscape
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project.php?recid=36

for the sound part, my installation can feel like this, but in wave form.

http://www.earslap.com/

Open source apps/coding.

SuperCollider is a free program from http://www.audiosynth.com/. used to composed synthase audio with graphic. But theirs a plugin call Hadron to add on to visualize the simple graphic and setup the audio.

Tutorial could be found at http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/community/
and
http://www.newscores.com/scforum/
and
http://electro-music.com/forum/forum-139.html

Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software.

Available at :https://gephi.org/

Tutorial available in
https://gephi.org/users/
in wikipedia also
http://wiki.gephi.org/index.php/Gephi_User_Manual

In this link below, it also show 5 free open source program to create realtime video synthesis。
http://www.gutsblow.com/Archive/12/5-free-open-source-apps-to-create-mind-blowing-motion-graphics

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1.Processing
Before you close this page, thinking that this post is nothing but a list of scripting/code related apps, I have to say that Processing is by far the most powerful yet easiest set of tools that allow to create wide variety of graphics from Interactive Kiosks to iTunes Visualizers.

Even though the learning curve is a little bit steep, especially for a person new to coding, it is more like a fusion of AE and Flash. It has the dynamic nature of Flash and the looks of After Effects. By default, it comes with numerous libraries including sound analysis. It is being rapidly adopted by various studios and institutions and has a very loyal user base. Check out their amazing Gallery. There are many books written on Processing to get you started right from the bare basics, but the Learning pages in the site are quite helpful too. Processing is a Cross Platform Open Source application distributed for Mac/Win/Linux.

2.Quartz Composer:

Actually Intended for developers, Quartz Composer(QC) is very famous for its simplicity & ease of use. It is a GPU accelerated visual programming tool that helps you create very dynamic and cool Core Image filters,Animations,Transition effects or iTunes Music Visualizers.

Honestly speaking, this Application left me spell bound when I first discovered it. This is the best example to show Apple’s quality and simplicity in their Apps. It is widely used by VJ’s all over the world along with third party Apps like VDMX. Quicktime & Safari have native capability to preview QC files, which means you need not have Quartz Composer installed to preview QC Compositions. Also, Quartz Composer allows you to create OpenGL shaders easily without having it to do in a low level programming language. But, here comes the most interesting part, Kineme has numerous patches and plugins which makes Quartz Composer a complete toolkit that analyzes audio, produces particle effects and Even Imports 3D Models and manipulates them. Kineme also has an offline renderer which produces highly Anti-Aliased renders, thus opening numerous possibilities for Motion Graphics. This application can do many things and it is truly impressive. You can create your own plugins for various Pro Apps like AE, Final Cut, Apple Motion using various 3rd Party Tools like Effect Builder AE , Fx Factory Pro , CHV-Plugins etc., There are many tutorials on Vimeo to get started and also the famous Rayz-O-Lite tutorial from DVCreators. Unfortunately, Quartz Composer is Mac Only.

How to install Quartz Composer

Also, check out Zugakousaku’s Amazing Quartz Composer Gallery

and the QuartzCompositions

3.VVVV:

moiré (piano and organ) from defetto on Vimeo.

VVVV is a toolkit of realtime video synthesis for Windows, very similar to Quartz Composer on Mac, but it is way powerful. It has a wide variety of features right from 3D Mesh manipulation, Audio synthesis, Realtime video synthesis. Contrary to Processing/Flash VVVV has a reputation of being used for Super High Quality Video Synthesis in Real time. There are many projects where visuals are generated at resolutions more than 4K at 60fps. Struktwidely uses VVVV for many of their projects.

Also, you can see amazing visuals in the Vimeo channel. On the downside, it is Windows only and it has a steep learning curve with limited resources. But the quality of the visuals produced by this toolkit surpasses all the other generative applications in real time. VVVV is free for Non-Commercial Use.

4.eMotion:

eMotion : presentation video from Adrien Mondot on Vimeo.

eMotion is primarily designed for text and particle based effects for both realtime and offline synthesis. Even though this Application is still in Alpha stages, it produces amazing typrography videos. eMotion’s Text and Particle tools kick AE’s and even Trapcode Particular’s ass. It’s force based physics simulations are way ahead of any particle system I have seen so far. Moreover, all these effects happen in real time and can be customized with wide range of settings and scripts. As it is in Alpha stage there might be some problems with the interface and usability but it is by far stable. If eMotion gains popularity, it will sure become a must have tool for any text/particle based effects. eMotion is free to download and Mac Only. There are some good tutorials on Vimeo to get you started.

5.Nodebox
Nodebox is another application which has a similar set of tools like Processing, but it is Python based. It is very easy to use and is actually intended for Graphic Design and Animation. It has many advanced features like built-in PDF, Quicktime,Fonts & CoreImage capabilities. There are many number of libraries available for download, and there are many resources to help you get started. But, it is widely believed that if you know Processing, it is easy to get around in NodeBox. Right Now, the stable version of Nodebox is available for Mac Only , while experimental versions are available for Windows and Linux.

These are some of the Applications that help you create really high quality visuals without using regular programs like After Effects or Motion. Also if you are interested in such applications, check out Subblue’s blog post on Fractal and Generative Art resources where he covers many other resources which aren’t related to motion design. Also I didn’t include Blender as a lot of people already use it and it is primarily intended for 3D design.

If you know any other Apps/Toolkits please list them in the comments, I will be happy to include.

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If i setting up my installation, i will include the led light as my ambiance light to control environmental experience, the light will goes around while the graphic change the color. This make the user have the capability to archive their own mood.

http://geekologie.com/2012/09/lifx-the-color-changable-wi-fi-enabled-2.php

The light mood can change when the music changing around.

And theres few way to hack the led light with some technical customizing.
Tutorial had shown below.
http://lifehacker.com/5941916/hack-a-rgb-led-strip-and-control-its-color-over-wi+fi
http://www.shatteredhaven.com/2012/12/1379365-colorful-lights-hacking-philips.html
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/in-living-color-ars-reviews-the-hacker-approved-philips-hue-leds/
And there is a open source control panel that can custome to take control over the light colour and dim option.