Project Two - entry 4

I had a play around with different colours, stripes, grids but I was finding it difficult to find something that I quite liked. The other day I was looking through some photos that I had taken overseas last year and came across this photo:

It immediately made me think of the piano sounds I had uploaded into my processing sketches, which I created using Garage Band and Audacity, so I uploaded it as a background image and I think it works quite nicely.

Project Two- entry 3

Although the sketch with the lines was quite elegant looking, it was difficult to see the colour fade when the tone was played so I changed the lines to ellipses, which now resembles something similar to a snake:

Note: The picture is not a link.

I now have the interaction and tones how I would like them to be but I am still not happy with the visuals.

Off to think...

Project Two - entry 2

I recieved good feedback from Angela who liked the overall idea of the sketch, but thought it was a bit unexciting to play with - which I agreed.

So I changed the mouseDragged function, back to a mouseMoved function but I was still intrigued about the idea of having the tones change with the length of the bar so i tried again and produced the below sketch, without the annoying buzzing sound:

I still was not happy with the sketch so I played around with it's aesthetics moving from lines to ellipses instead of rectangles. I also then had an idea that instead of the tones changing through use of the bar height, that the tones would be different with two lines running instead. Sound confusing? ... this is what I mean:

Project Two - entry 1

So first I set about trying making rectangles that could be dragged down to manipulate the height of the bar. After allocating certain tones to each bar and having a play around with the mouseMoved function it worked but got boring pretty quickly.

Initially I had an idea that if you could manipulate the height of the bar it would be neat if the sounds were manipulated at the same time. So I put in three different tones allocated to each bar, starting with a higher octave then moving to a lower octave as the bar was extended.

The sketch produced an awful constant humming sound and was still a little boring to play with that I moved on.

After having a play around with the link below (in post titled 'Found') and Ben Jack's Soundlines 1 and Soundlines 2, I thought my interactive sketch would work better if there was a line (or something) that when it 'rolled' over the beginning of the rectangle it would play the tone, as opposed to just mouseMoved. I also used the mouseDragged function.

After playing around with this, I decided to play with the colour so it changed when the sound was played. I had a look at some different sketches on OpenProcessing and worked out how to have the colour of the bars change when the line rolled over them. I then decided that I wanted the colour that it changed to, to continue fading until the sound had stopped playing. I kept all of my sounds to one second but was unsure how to code this. I had a look through some different openProcessing sketches but could not work it out, until my kind flatmate saw me getting frustrated and talked me through it.

I finished with this sketch, that was then presented to Angela in the mid-semester break.

Initial inspiration

My first initial inspiration was taken from this sketch 'Worms monsters' designed by Benjamin Deal.

The sketch can be found here.

Found

How cool (and fun) is this?

Tone Matrix

Storyboard