The introduction that we had yesterday helped to get a better understanding of the module. The biggest hurdle is to understand the code examples provided by Clint. I feel that the introduction gave me a grasp of how it works, but I need to take some time to understand it.
Today we started the day by discussing yesterday’s lecture to get a shared understanding of what we want and what we are doing. Our first discussion was about how we should think about the interaction. Does it require direct human interaction, or can we see the sound environment as its own gestalt that affects us differently? This is something we will bring up in the next coaching session.
We then started to discuss sound as an environment and it giving the surrounding a texture. We decided to test how a “quiet space” sounds by using a sound spectrum analyzer. We took a walk around the university to see how background noise that we usually don’t realize is a part of the sound environment.
Seeing how the sound is represented in the code was the next step. We managed to connect our phones, so we got inputs from two microphones. After playing with the code for a bit, we decided to start brainstorming on the topic of nuanced control and try to see if we can find examples of control and then try to find qualities in that specific control. Our first subject of control was the studio chairs.
Studio chair
- control of heigth- fluid for bigger adjustment, stepwise for maximum conrol
- rotation – increasing and decreasing amounts of force to find right posititon
- moving the chair – combination of balance, speed affected by the floor material
cooking spatula
- moving/ picking something up – force, angle and the flexibilety of the material
- controlling degree of cooking -feeling through material
I didn’t feel that we got a grip of the nuanced control, and I think we need to come back to this. Since we didn’t think that we got the nuanced control part and needed some coaching, we decided to continue with the code and make a first sketch to understand how some of the code work. The first sketch was just to change the page’s background by using min, max, and average values for the RGB values.