In my last post I hinted to the beginning of what I thought was impending disaster. The original planned setup for connecting physical switches to Ableton Live was based around key mapping. Live quite nicely allows you to map a track/channel to any key (the letter ‘a’ in this case) and this key then acts [...]
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Tagged: coinlaundry, maim, tech
During our morning seminar with Graham we discussed the concept of databases as a contemporary abstract concept which enables a new cultural perspective in which answers are not as important as asking the correct questions. Because of the non-linearity and abundance of data sets as structures and systems of information, we are able to investigate [...]
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Tagged: coinlaundry, maim
Originally we were going to be switching channels of music on and off using manual switches under custom made footpads – fiddly!! After a workshop (An Introduction to Arduino) we have decided to change the switches to infrared sensors. When the infrared beam is broken this will send a signal to switch the music on [...]
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Tagged: coinlaundry, infrared, maim
Our group went for crisis talks yesterday in order to finalise and specify one of the many ambling and unfocused ideas we have had over the last month or so. Our problem it seems is that we have a lot of man-power (our group consists of 5) which means a lot of ideas and not [...]
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Tagged: arduino, coinlaundry, maim, maxmsp
After a conversation about one of our speakers (sounds artist – Joe Banks), I was told about an interesting phenomenen called the McGurk effect. This suggests that speech perception is multimodal, i.e. our brain interprets the sounds from both visual and audio stimulus. Watch and listen to the following video once and then a second [...]
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