Prototyping 2010-2011

This is the current schedule for the Prototyping course.

Exercises

• Meeting 1: Friday, October 8, 2010: sedsongs
• Meeting 2: Tuesday, October 12, 2010: Clapping music
• Meeting 3: Tuesday, October 19, 2010: Review Prototype 1, ...

Prototype 1

Based on the sedsongs and clapping music exercises, create a prototype that translates some source of information into a sound. Your prototype should include:

• A short title
• A short description
• an example of one or more inputs
• the essential code
• An example of one or more outputs (sound files)

Sources of information: Based on our pipeline using tools like sed to search and replace text implies that information be in the form of text. This does not however mean that you must limit yourself to only texts -- consider for instance the metadata or comments of an online video, or think about other ways of transforming images or sounds into some sort of text (metadata, an ASCII Art library).

To be viewed in class October 19, 2010

Sample

If we consider the Clapping music exercise as a prototype, it might look something like:

Title Clapping Music

Description An exploration of a method of composing music by means of a shifting pattern. By separating the parts in stereo, allows each part to be listened to in isolation or together allowing the listener to experience differences in perception between individual patterns and the syncopation of the combination. When listening to the combination, the places where both parts are silent (the position of the shared rests) seem most significant.

Input

xxx_xx_x_xx_

Code & Output (see the Clapping music page)

Cooking...

• SVG Spinning
• Videogrep
• Exercises involving script plugins for GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus