Musicand interactivity 1
- 2. This is Your Music brings nothing positive to the biological Brain on survival of life Bodily behaviors can Music revolutionize our lifestyle Music can promote social bonding Music is attracted to those emotionally disconnected from disorders
- 3. The Power of Music Music evokes a dynamism of emotional responses Emotional climaxes are stimulated, similar to a novel Music is versatile Music an amplify or deepen emotion Sound is transformed into music through a variety of methods
- 4. Music, Mood, and Marketing Music has a powerful influence on the mood and offers cognitive stimulus Rhythm can dictate a series of emotion Pitch Scales Texture Volume
- 5. Listening to Cybernetics Three main divisions in the types of experimentation in electronic music Human-Machine Integration System Process Information Control and Determinacy/Indeterminacy
- 6. The Architectural Relevance of Gordon Pask Gordon Pask: English scientist and designer working in cybernetics “actions lead to impacts on the environment that lead to sensing and further modification of actions.” Created conversational and teaching machines that use music as the medium for interactions with humans Musicolour (1953) Machine would learn from and react to the musician it was interacting with
- 7. Myron Kruegar: american interactive computer artist Environmenta Computer interfaces would connect to the human body l Technology and its senses Computer Controlled Responsive Environment VideoPlace Concept would eventually influence mainstream media
- 8. Interpreting Sounds and Popular Music How can we determine what sound or noise will be significant enough to have the desired effect upon the audience? How is popular music determined and understood by the majority of the population?
- 9. On Popular Music Melody or lyric of a popular song are constructed with a definite pattern Standard or serious songs are free form with no structural confinements Popular song: Custom Built Standard song: Freer play of imagination and interpretation How do people determine what is popular?
- 10. Interpreting Sound Finite area for sound interpretation and enjoyment The ability to interpret sounds changes with age Sound interpretation varies from person to person, and from ear to ear within each person. People vary in the ability to hear certain ranges in sound, making it difficult to create a ubiquitous and encompassing sound for an interactive piece. A Test of Your Hearing
- 11. Making Motion Musical Started with the Theremin Integration of Midi More dynamic sound manipulation Data conversion http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6btFObRRD9k
- 12. Composing Interactive Music Max Visual Programming Tutorial-Style reading Customized Functionality Breaching Commercial constraints
- 13. Patent 5,986,200 (Steven Curtin)
- 14. Questions What makes people become indulged in such a public interactive musical? What would make them stay or make them afraid to be with that piece of work? What do you think makes a song popular, and why do you think that those reasons make it such? Why are these reasons the immediate assessment of "cool"? How much time would you spend interacting with a Passive Installation? How much would you try and explore? Would not being able to witness immediate changes from your interaction hinder your involvement / interest in the piece?