GMU:Max and I, Max and Me/Fionn McErlean

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Idea:

I want to explore Samuel Becketts 1981 televised play 'Quad' which consists of four actors in the colours red, blue, white and yellow fixed in a loop. Each actor is accompanied by a sound, which creates no rhythm or melody. The actors walk in sync, and are bound together by invisible lines.

To do this:

Explore ways to make the bodies movement trigger sounds (different sound for each person) I have seen people use a Kinect 2 running with MaxMSP to accomplish this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPJBIvv13Bc (Quad remake) using pitched percussion

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An illustrated representation of the placement and movement of the figures.

First attempt at building a colour tracking patch. It works surprisingly well considering the lack of contrast in the video File:ColourTracker.mp4

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Interesting Work:

Student Felix Geith piece 'Soundscape Installation' sets to enhance augmented sounds which are present within the environment to begin with aka (Bedroom). Investigating the spatialisation of sounds.

Funda Zeynep Ayguler 'eye tracker' piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SswayKs9XtE

Another interesting piece using MaxMSP to play the paino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejd-39TEf68

Homework 1:

Feedback delay + loops

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Homework 2:

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Homework 3: