Digital Craft Minor 4th Year: Cybernetics

Project 1: Critical Making exercise

Reimagine an existing technology or platform using the provided sets of cards. For this first project, I grouped up with Tutu, Thijs and Naima and we picked three random cards each from different category.

Inspiration

Our starting point

Prototype

Project 2: Cybernetic Prosthetics

First Testing

Making Prototype

Final Result

Aquatic Acoustic

Video Link : https://vimeo.com/292687674

Project 3: From Devices to systems

Cassette recorder to Electromagnetic noise detector

Final Project (RESEARCH DOCUMENT)

question-process-experiments-reflection-conclusions

Introduction

(tell us about yourself and your practice)

Position Paper_H Jung

What is your craft? (define your discipline, method or approach) What are the tools and media of your craft? What are the borders of this practice? (what new media technologies have arisen / what is its future of the field)) Connect to a historical discourse and give concrete examples of contemporary practitioners Define your position of your practice in relation to newer technologies.

Abstract/Research Question

(in 250 words or less, explain the essence of your research project) (why is this worth pursuing? explain the urgency of your project)

Research Approach

(how do you define and design your research? what activities/approaches/methods will you pursue while conducting your research?) For this project I approached research as by doing/experimenting. At the beginning of the project, I still did not know which aspect of my research topic I would dive into and why I was interested in it. Therefore I limited myself within the theme "sound" and try to explore as I came across with something.

Inspiration/Reference

(what texts will/can support this investigation?)

Caterina Barbieri (musician) - subtract composition, repetition, minimalism

Pierre Schaeffer (Musique Concrete, Found Sound)

Dick Raaijmakers (Phono-kinetic object)

Tomoko Sauvage (sound installation/performance)

Experiments/Process

(what are you going to test out and why)

Contact Microphone

https://www.instructables.com/id/Balanced-piezo-contact-microphones/
Resonator https://www.macprovideo.com/article/ableton-live/have-fun-with-resonators-in-ableton-live/

Algorithmic Composition, Synthesis_SuperCollider

SuperCollider https://supercollider.github.io/
Algorave https://algorave.com/

Ableton, Found sound

So I decided to make a composition with Ableton. I was interested in found sound, and decided to use them as the musical source. Nowadays we are living in the age of mechanical reproduction and it somehow changed our perspective on beauty. Whenever I walk down the streets, I hear the noise of construction works such as drills, banging hammers that become repetitive in my head and suddenly become a rhythm and then music. First I did some field recordings and manipulated them in DAW Ableton. I warped, cropped the sound and put audio effects to recreate the sound. During my research on this topic, I drew my inspiration from found sound and Musique Concrete. Pierre Schaeffer is the pioneer of this experimental music. He recorded sound and shaped them to completely different sounds, where listeners cannot identify the origin of the sound. I put the recorded found sounds in the drum rack to use each elements as a percussion sound. I think pattern and repetition are what makes noises and sound into music. I decided to make a drum machine interface where audiences can create their own beat from the found sounds. I can use touchOSC application as a MIDI controller with an iPad. Then I wanted to visualise the patterns and repetition of the beats. I wanted to visualise it as a movement using motors. I thought this way of creating optical kinetic installation would be effective to show the mesmerising effect of the repetition of the patterns.

Electronics

Servo motor
Adafruit 16 servo shield https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-16-channel-pwm-slash-servo-shield/overview Power Source

OSC

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for networking sound synthesisers, computers, and other multimedia devices for purposes such as musical performance or show control. OSC's advantages include interoperability, accuracy, flexibility and enhanced organisation and documentation. With the Ableton Connection Kit (https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/connection-kit/), it is easy to control motors, LED, etc via Arduino. However, since I am planning to use 12 servo motors and using a shield for Arduino, the digital outputs have been changed. So Ableton could not read the shield. I asked Mike in interaction station for a help, and he suggested me to send OSC to Processing and connect it to Arduino.

Insights from Experimentation

(what have you pulled from your hands on practice based research?)

Realised work

(what did you actually make)

Reflection/Final Conclusion

(what was the point? what do you take away?)

Questions for the presentation

Image 1: What did you make? (Show one image of your semester work that was the most inspiring)

Image 2: What did you miss? (What do you to connect to, bring in, or explore that is not covered by the curriculum)

Image 3: What is your topic of interest? (Explain though a visual what area you wish to further explore)

Image 4: What is your medium? (Explain what materials and tools you wish to use)

Image 5: What is your question? (Try to formulate one (preliminary research) question that will guide your investigation)

Bibliography

(what did you reference in this text (other texts, images, films, exhibitions)? Remember to use proper in-text citing!!!!!!!!!!

Klankvorm @V2
The Rest is Noise: Alva Noto
Instrument Make Play @Worm