Category: UO

Last Saturday was FMO concert. The setup started at 9am. Scott Waytt is our visiting composer. Stolet also performed his composition ImPossible. During the rehearsal/setup. I was trying to learn the mixing board. Fang’s recital will be on June 8th, I will have to drive the mixing board for her. My first time…

The OEDO ensemble piece did not went well. The image just wont showed up so Olga had to give up playing back the image. Feel sorry for her. She spent so much time preparing the image…

After the concert, I was so tired, almost wanted to give up the gathering at Steelhead. I am glad Jeff went with me. It was nice to chat a little bit with Scott. He is such a nice teacher. Can’t believe that we know home more than 10 years…

This time I did t have any piece performed. I will, though, for the Fall term concert for sure.

Finished my first project for Interactive Spaces. A projection mapping work, using Madmapper. I first made the pyramid shape out of a cardboard. Then filmed Jayling and Jayshing crawling, first inside the kitchen, then on the deck outside. Fun process. Not sure if I can developed this further. Need a more solid concept to keep me going on this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUF7gUBQkGk&feature=youtu.being

A fun collaboration with Jared Knofczynski and Payson Carpenter for UO Musical Performance Network class.

Description

• Generating random two tones within a specific range from host computer. Then the participants alter the frequency of each tone, to bring to tones eventually playing in unison. 
• Using Max/MSP object UDPsend/receive functions to send data in-between computers. 
• The host computer is not sending any data to participants’ computers. Instead, the participants have to use their ears to identify the pitch of the individual tone, then decide he or she wants to make each tone go higher or lower. A number, or two numbers (if the participants wants to change both tones at the same time) are sending back to the host computer to alter the frequencies constantly.
• Besides listening to the sine wave tone generated by the host computer, this project also calls for careful listening to other participants’ action to create a mutual agreement of where the result tone will go. 

The actual performance was very enjoyable. It was like a game for aural skills. When the two tones getting closer and closer, reaching the point that we can hear the  beat frequencies, some kind of excitement aroused and we all got the feeling of “we are almost there!”. That was a very nice moment. 

https://vimeo.com/326015752

Presented final project on the Emerging Technology class. Using the Google Seedbank Style Transfer application, I concerted two pictures and created the third picture. Then taking those pictures into MAX/MSP, trying to turn the picture into sound. The outcome was good. We had some technical difficulties with projector, but luckily was able to present my work in the lab.

As a starting point, this project could be taken into another alveoli. The 10 by 10 pixels extracted from the original pictures could be mapping into sine waves. Bring the additive Synthesis concert into the project could be the next step.

Style transfer is the topic of this week in Emerging Technology class. We explored the Google Seedbank. Some interesting pictures came out while I experienced using the application.

Colin suggested a book :surveillance capitalism.

“Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services as free, but now surveillance capitalists think of us as free.”

Presented our first project for the Emerging Technology class.

Using the AIY kit that provided by Colin at the beginning of this term, detecting the faces count, then feeding that data into MAX patch I wrote to generate a set of drum patterns, then route that data to another two computers though OSC (Open Sound Control) to create some images using Processing software. We finally did it. It has been very challenge to work on this project. None of my team members, including me, knows how to do the coding. But we did it. I can see this basic idea can be a seed, then to develop further to a possible installation.

Enjoy very much the class.

Working title for my next Data-Driven composition.

It is finally get going a little bit on this piece. For a while, I was kind of stuck and not really getting any energy to write something good. But today, after the lesson, I finally feel move forward a little bit, step by step. This will be a challenge two weeks coming ahead. I really want to make it to the FMO concert, but also don’t want to present it as a “practice” one. It got to be professional and something I feel worth to perform in the public.

The seed inside you is the magic key to the sole of your music. You got to fell it deep enough to make it coming out from you, and only you. What is this little 3 minutes recording mean to me? How do I transform it to another form of art and take the audience stepping into the magic?

Challenge.

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Realized Cartridge Music in our EM History class today. 

I did my on Tuesday, it was fun.

During the class, I just realized that I forgot to turn the reading response for this class… First time late for turning in my assignment. Da. Should have been more careful.

In the class, we talked about Brain Eno’s Ambient music. The story about how he came up the idea of ambient music during his hospital visit is very interesting. reminds me that “the basic decency everyone should have in them”. Some people just don’t have the decency and not respect others.