GMU:Max and I, Max and Me/Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht Pittelkow

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Project: Exploring Audio-Visual

Idea

The main goal of the interactive installation is to create an atmosphere consisting of a combination of audio and visuals which can be shaped by the viewer. The viewer stands in front of a pair of speakers and is either surrounded by lights (or views a projection on a screen).

The viewer has the opportunity to shape the atmosphere using a smartphone or tablet. It should be possible to crossfade between different states of the installation.

These atmospheres shall represent different environments. E.g. a city or a forrest. The viewer could now mix the city with the forrest and experience this combinations.

 

FL and FR represent the speakers (Front Left and Front Right). V indicates the viewer facing the speakers and the circles marked with an x represent the light sources.

Technical solutions

Sound can be looped samples/ recordings and can be generated by max. For the lights LEDs in a case, which diffuses the light can be used and can be controlled by an Arduino which communicates with max.

Process

Inpiration and References

après l'avant a binaural electronic sound performance based on the piece "tenet opera rotas" by Karlheinz Essl.