Week 3

For this week I was tasked with experimenting and testing out the new areas that I had learned on Processing. The lement of movement throughout the coding whether it was through colour or through pictures. I chose to look at a series of pictures and how I could code these to react when pressing keys.

My next task I was able to use the skills previously learned and adapt them to an end goal. I was able to recreate an alternative interface by using a piece of paper and laying it on the keyboard to it wasn’t able to be seen. I mapped out the keyboard so when pressed it showed colour unless certain keys were pressed and a picture was shown.

READING

• According to William Moritz, visual music aims “to create with moving lights a music for the eye comparable to the effects of sound for the ear” (Moritz 1986).
• Clubbing culture and technological developments seem, therefore, the main vectors behind the development of VJing. Chris Salter explains the emergence of “screen-based per- formance” in the 1990s, adopting “a long litany of names such as audiovisual performance, real-time video, live cin- ema, performance cinema, and VJ culture” (Salter 2010, p.172) as the result of these two branches of techno-cultural development: on the one hand, “breakthroughs in digital computation, particularly the development of hardware and software components for the capture, processing, and ma- nipulation of image and sound” and on the other hand, “the international rise of the techno/club scene, which rapidly ex- ploited such technologies” (Salter 2010, p.172).
• This is a very modern technique of using sound however it seems to hjave been used before. This time a lot more development has come out of this as it is very technical. The use of imagery and sound throughout a performance is a very good example of this
• In computer-based music production environments, visual feedback allows musicians to realize what is going on with the different components (Cronin 2008, p.77). This visual representation can help to quickly understand the value of a parameter, without the need of interacting with a control element.
• The visual feedback can allow for errors or adaptations to be made throughout a process as it allows the user to not only hear but also see the error taking place.