I’m getting ready to present the head(banger)phones for the ITP Winter Show.  A little bit of solder helped to get rid of the short circuit problem I was having periodically with the accelerometer.  I also replaced the orchestral audio samples I originally used to demo the head(banger)phones with some synth samples I recorded from my [...]

Safety is Dangerous from lee-sean on Vimeo. Here is my first attempt at animation with Adobe After Effects, inspired by Surrealism, Dada, and early MTV animations. All the source images were taken by me or Kris and can be found in my Flickr account. Music: Netmaster 2 (Safety is Dangerous Glitch Mix) by HEPNOVA. [YouTube] [...]

I got the audio visualization to work.  The waves represent the audio waveforms of the percussion alphabet.  The letters fade out gradually after you type them to in order to help pace the user and to represent the “life cycle” of each note through time.  Here is a screenshot: Source code after the jump:

I have completed phase 1 of my ICM final project, Text2Drum,  which involves me creating a new “percussion alphabet”, perhaps another way to describe it is “a musical Morse code.”  I have assigned a unique percussion sample to each letter of the alphabet.  I have assigned ‘A’ through ‘G’ pitched percussion hits that correspond to [...]

My final project proposal for Physical Computing at ITP: head(banger)phones – a personal musical device A set of headphones rigged with an accelerometer that detects the motion of the user’s head and converts that motion data into MIDI data via an Arduino microprocessor.  The MIDI then triggers percussion sounds in a software synth on the [...]