I went to a Machine Learning 101 event hosted at the Princeton Public Library. This meet up consisted of a long lecture on the basics of machine learning and then I introduced myself to attendees afterward and had discussions with them. In this lecture, I was taught basic concepts of machine learning including gathering data,… Continue reading Kenny’s Industry Event
For this week’s prototype, I decided to change what I was planning to do due to hardware limitations, experimenting with new MIDI keytracking applications, and rediscovering Magenta, Google’s free machine learning melody generating software. Originally, my plan was to have a more in-depth demonstration with a MIDI percussion instrument, but due to my MacBook not… Continue reading Kenny’s Prototype Sprint #3
For this prototype, I hoped to learn more about what others think of the interactive aspects of my project, and to possibly be given new ideas of different ways I and others can control the visuals and music. I gained much insight into how others intuitively control the MIDI system teaching me more about how… Continue reading Kenny’s Prototype Sprint #2
What I hoped to learn evolved throughout explaining and presenting my prototype from only focusing on what others thought about how my visuals and music work together to also focusing on what recognizable media and imagery could possibly be added. I also thought that it would be helpful to learn more about what sounds others… Continue reading Kenny’s Prototype Sprint #1
For my first prototype, I will provide visuals reacting to music that I plan to use for my final demonstration. This includes using many different video effects used with pre-made music and synthesizers. This will demonstrate the audio-visual aspects of my project. I hope to learn more about what others think about how the audio… Continue reading Kenny’s Prototype Plan
I further prepared my demonstration material including visuals, music, and the means of controlling all of this. When preparing the Zwobot visual effects, I quickly found out that Ableton Live’s macro controls are limited to how many parameters can be mapped at once without grouping groups of video effects adding eight more macro controls each… Continue reading Kenny’s Research Update #3
I explored the many different visual effects of Zwobot, the music visualization software I am using for the visual aspects of my project. I noticed that there are three general categories of effects being simple (but still powerful) effects with two parameters each. The next category has more in-depth effects with more parameters that do… Continue reading Kenny’s Research Update #2
I have mostly been researching sound design, how to create good mixes and masters of my music by creating a song in Ableton Live that I do plan to chop up and use parts of for my thesis demonstrations/performances. In my research, I played the drums at different tempos to see which tempo would be… Continue reading Kenny’s Research Update #1
Introduction My idea is to create an interactive video system where one can manipulate and trigger videos live using MIDI controllers. MIDI controllers I will be using include an electronic drum kit, a sampling pad called the SPD-SX (has 9 individual surfaces that when hit, send a MIDI signal), and possibly a two-octave keyboard. This… Continue reading Kenny’s Revised Concept
Many musicians, music producers, and music technology companies have pursued live electronic music performances being enhanced by visuals. To get where we are today in live electronic music performance and DJing synced to visuals, musicians and music producers such as Mr. Bill and KJ Sawka, Jojo Mayer & Nerve, Deadmau5, AFISHAL, and Rezz have created… Continue reading Kenny’s Research Plan