GMU:Max and the World/Tan/Project Idea

From Medien Wiki

Over past few months due to the pandemic precautions our only guests were the flies. Maybe due to our evolutionary repulsion or maybe because of accidentally watching David Cronenberg’s film “The Fly” at a very early age my experience with them hasn’t been delightful.

Our flat faces some old mulberry trees which attract lots of bluebottles and fruit flies. Having experienced infestations of fruit flies, worms, cockroaches and fleas in the past, it would be interesting to re-enact this situation in a controlled environment and maybe collaborate with them in a way, establishing a mutual relationship.

Installing a container with arduino sensors, I’d like to be able to have a setup where the movement of flies influences the parameters of audio samples in Max. This simple interaction would be an attempt to establish a composition out of a “fly ensemble”.