Post-Modern Poster Child (Musical Typewriter Mix) from lee-sean on Vimeo. [Blip.tv] [YouTube] [Vimeo] I presented my final project for Intro to Computational Media today.  Building on the work I did with the Musical Typewriter, I ended up making some last minute tweaks to my “musical typeface,” which consists of audio samples corresponding to each letter [...]

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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:

Update to my two previous posts: ICM Final in Progress: Musical Typewriter ICM Final Project Proposal: Text2Drum After getting help from the ICM email list, I changed my AudioPlayer objects to AudioSamples, which only need to be triggered once, as opposed to AudioPlayer objects that require play and rewind functions.  This tweak solved my latency [...]

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 [...]

For my ICM final project, which I am calling Text2Drum, I seek to explore the rhythmic qualities of language.  Text2Drum will read text from a file, and convert each letter of the text to a drum/percussion that I will assign to correspond to each letter of the alphabet.  Spaces and punctuation marks will be interpreted [...]