So I have video, but not good video. So I need to capture some more. After playing with Max a bit I have a better idea of the composition/angle I need to get.
I have a patch, but only half of the patch. I have the video sensing half, I need to find/ create the audio playing half and learn to adjust the variables to make it do what I want.
I have audio ideas and sources, but no files in my possesion.
Despite what I don’t have, I feel good about what I do have. So far I’ve only been dipping my toes in and testing the water, but I am ready to dive in and immerse myself in the process.
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Tagged: final project, traffic jam
A couple of weeks ago when I was thinking about traffic patterns and music, I thought of a music box. Vehicles in the lanes of a highway made me think about the tines of a music box mechanism.
That’s kind of an old school analogy though. As I thought about it more, I thought the Guitar Hero graphic is a more modern analogy.
The four rows that button symbols appear in correlate with lanes of traffic. As the button symbols pass a certain line, the wannabe Guitar Hero is supposed to press a certain button to play a certain note. In my “Traffic Jam” piece, as the cars pass a certain line a certain sound will play. Initially the video will be what controls the sound, but eventually it might be cool to make a Traffic Hero game with a physical interface that must be “played” to match the traffic patterns.
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Tagged: guitar hero, traffic hero, traffic jam
