Today we have continued exploring different materials to see if we could find material-specific frequencies. We tested the different sounds that corrugated cardboard, styrofoam, paper, and plywood make when rubbed against a concrete surface and rubbed with the same material. We tried to see if there was any difference in the frequency.
After the material test, we decided to create a webpage that changed background color depending on what material we used to produce sound.
I was surprised that how we perceive sound is quite different from how the mic picks it up and how the computer reads it. We had similar values for the different materials, even though I thought they sounded very different when hearing the sound. The testing with sound was quite disappointing, and I felt that it didn’t give us anything to work with. At this stage, I felt that we didn’t have any direction on what we were doing.
Coaching with Clint
Clint encourages us to go back to the nuanced control and try to unpack what it is for us. This was hard but after some discussion, we discussed what nuance control when swimming, running, and play an instrument can be. From this session, we started to see new aspects such as:
- Envionment- working as an enabler or as something that creates resistance. Sometime it can be both. E.g. when swiming, the water is both holding you back but it is also the thing that makes it possible to swim. Depending how the water is it easier or harder to swim.
- Timing – how and when we make an interaction play a part in how the whole activity plays out. E.g. when a skilled runner plans their running they calculate in factors such as for how long they will run and how they can time their runnig to get the best result.
- Force/Speed – the force and speed is impacted by both the enviroment and the timing and when you can control these together then the control starts to be nuanced. E.g. when should a runner change the runnig pace to get the best endurance based on how the enviorment is.
We now feel that we have a better understanding of nuanced control, and we can continue to build on our sketches.