Simple Lines and Relationships

I wanted to take a well known font and mess it up.  One of the standard fonts that is used in nearly every modern design template for western characters is Helvetica.  I used to work with this font in very standard way with proper spacing and margins to so it can be used in many digital platforms.  I personally like the Gotham thin style but I didn't have the file on-hand.

messing with transform tools

an interesting replacement for the "raspberry" symbol by only changing source font file

After becoming familiar with the basic transform tools I wanted to intergrete these path tools into a composition.

I really liked this "i", it took me a few tries to work more elements into the code to get a more desired result

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Coding isn't my strong suit but I wanted to make a composition that had a shared source, same characters, but some were altered to be illegible.  The end results came closer to concrete poetry.

captured that "untitled Tooltip"  but lets say it was intentional

I evoke the feeling of motion was my idea by stretching the x-coordinates in areas.  It would have been cool to use the word "rain" but due to the weird way i glued to code together it ran the array per character.  4 letter words did not look as good as 3 letter words.

/joes-bizzare.ipynb#

I named this post bizzare because I took a different approach to this assignment.  This is inspired from the readings a few weeks ago that showcased the intuitive ways writing was integrated with technology. 

Physicality of the process. 

When I write, traditionally, there is a feeling of elegance and simplicity that makes everything fluid.  I wanted to reflect that in whatever my output was.  I also wanted to introduce ideas and concepts that I could further explore as the course progresses.

adding multiple generated glyphs to create one character

reducing the space between them to make them one object

same thing but curvy

My "signature" series:

I wanted to created the sense of self.  When you used to sign for everything a signature naturally develops.  I thought this reflected a lot of personality.

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Now the stuff below reminded my of a child scribbling on a notebook.  That's a form of communication not even the child understands.  Pure subconscious.

I took the grid layout and saturated the values till they bled all over each other.


This next one was fun:

Created simple lines, a large blank cell bellow and hit the refresh button for the next frame.  It's a python animation! 

Lot's of fun–

JB

4 channel

I decided to branch off and experiment with different materials. The goal is to create these structures that are like instruments. Self contained input and output devices. Then I take those sounds into the mix and play them through different outputs with EFX. Right now I only have a couple to work with. The delay pedal which I used before to create more space. The other I have yet to try is the Leslie speaker. I currently only used the stereo-out from the mixer and then split that into two more outputs -keeping one signal dry and the other wet. Since each sound source requires prototyping, things progress slowly but the feedback (no pun intended) is getting more positive.

 A simple outline of my project:

Version 2 of wearable bass shaker and microphone connection hub:

Here is some prototyping videos:

Stereo?

The typical idea of stereo is there are two outputs playing different tracks.  How similar or dissimilar those tracks are altered for the desired effect.  However, what I also though is that your inputs have as much importance as the outputs in this setting.  Playing one input into two speakers with a simple pan would make use of two speakers.

My inspiration for this project was the old crossovers built for the big speaker cabs.  With each frequencies being pushed to a certain type of speaker to best emulate that type of sound.  I also used a leslie speaker in my NIME last year.  The idea of have a physical interaction altering the sound felt much more rewarding than a max patch.

I set my system up for two outputs and decided to use a microphone as an input again.  A transducer would capture the lows and the speaker would play the full spectrum with a delay.  I would mess around with different gain settings on the transducer creating sounds reminiscent of the old radios.

It was when I started to get feedback from the transducer I decided to play around with different materials and EQ settings.  I was able to create a feedback loop that was controllable that it wouldn't peak and kill your ear drums.  And as you changed microphone placement the pitch would also change.  The delay FX were used to bring depth to the tones.  It sounded like whales to me.

In-N-Out Language

I started altering the inputs of the example Jupiter Notebook that was provided:

Emojis are fun and immediately gratifying

Going further I wanted to see if I could find patterns in images and text.  So I chose to use a checkerboard to see if I would see any repeats in the text translation.  I tested a few languages.

Seems only this one provided an obvious repeat in the code with the Ø

I also wanted to experiment with audio but changing all the functions and variables yielded the same sub-second audio clip.

MONO

The Feedback Dance

The idea was to make both the source and the output mobile instead of fixed.  Using a Feedback loop I wanted to see how people moved in order to avoid the blaring feedback spike and if it was possible to find a position where the feedback was balanced and under control.

I also wore the speaker on my back while playing guitar in a stairwell to see how the direction of my body could impact or accentuate the notes being played.  It was hard for me to notice when the speaker was fixed to me unless I came close to the wall in which the reflection of sound was more prominent.