From workshop at [Do It Anyway festival] (http://www.opensourcingfestivals.eu/events/do-it-anyway-festival-sheffield-uk), held May 15-17 2015 in Sheffield, UK.
Material used/mentioned during workshop.
SuperCollider, programming language and IDE for sound. Homepage, Example codes
Open Sound Control, protocol for communicating data between applications, sensors etc in real-time. Easy to use in SuperCollider, Pure Data etc. Control, OSC app for Android, support for many user interfaces. Multitouch, accelorometer, sequencer.
Flowhub, visual programming IDE. With MicroFlo can program microcontrollers, with sndflo can program SuperCollider. NoFlo can be used for general-purpose JavaScript/CoffeScript, and was used glue MicroFlo/Arduino <-> sndflo/SuperCollider together.
These are the concepts developed by the six workshop participants, around the idea of synchrony: How peoples behavior tend to syncronize and its effect on perception & communication.
Each distance sensor is mapped to the coverage of the 4 holes on a English pendant Ocarina. To make a particular note, have to have a certain distance on all 4 holes.
Position of participants (distance to sensor) form geometric figures: 3 matching distances becomes a triangle, 4 ueven distances become rectangle, 4 perfect matches a circle, etc Each figure can have a distinct visualization and/or sonification.
Each distance sensor is mapped to a drum sample. People work together to trigger samples by changes in distance.
4 participants balance a sound put on a virtual pendulum with 2-axis of freedom, by changing their distance from the sensors.
People hold hands to form a circle around the box with the four sensors. When they move together towards center, audiovisuals intensify and tops as the closest position.
Peoples rate of approach has to match to trigger audiovisuals.
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