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What was fundamentally a get together, an introduction to Processing and geek out evening in a pub; it is now somewhat in limbo. At the very end of you can see what our original plan was. Now, though, we have new 'non' plans – and once again find ourselves drifting through endless iterations with no end in sight! Processing Community day is now online, and at this time I’m not sure when / if there are others scheduled for 2020 (nothing on their calendar).
So, we are on our own again!
We’re Make Bournemouth – 5 or so people who have been hanging out on Teams and Slack, cobbling together LED Matrix, Adafruit FadeCandy scripts and a couple of drawing machines, a CoreXY and a Polargraph. There may be… A couple of academics from the Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) who are to lend a hand, at idea generation, tech support or producing a piece of their own work. Originally we had some academics from Bournemouth University (BU) who were to work with us on the day to generate some audio for us to work to.
What is the story?
Using:
8x8 LArge FadeCany matrix – mirrors what RGB val at a certain point on the screen. So, a low res / abstract output. Will be making 12 in total, 3 grids comprised of 4 matrixes.
8x8 small FadeCAndy matrix that Brian will use and spread about the place!
What is the bollocks? Covid related – bring people together despite being distances – would require a network infrastructure of sorts thing…? Could there be a front end? A website and it does a thing? An amorphous blob that goes between each other…. Arty bollocks – more than just a series of matrixes that does stuff ideas time... What are we going to do with these matrixes? Emotive endpoint? What are we trying to get people to think? Dance or cry?
People’s living rooms Light up Poole Gorilla gardens light show
Ahhh who knows?! I want to do it by early sept as will be run off feet due to job, don’t want this to drag on forever – want closure / endpoint in sight. That said…. Students could make up numbers! Students could respond to (extend life of project, out of storage) Light up Poole was in Jan 2020, so likely Jan 2021 (extend life of project, out of storage) Gorilla gardens light show…November?? (extend life of project, out of storage)
Continue to develop the hardware to a workable state – nearly three! Explore a web interface for processing or something? Consider the use of sonicPi -what can it do over a network? Use the PI to do online stuff?? can they be connected to the web? can they relay messages to each other? could a website control them? All great ideas Asha thanks – easy to map shit onto this… Transfer of transfer transfer transfer Drawing machines? Was thinking of audio responsive stuff for this… Map movement using blobs (OpenCV) Frame buffer to create a low res on screen display Expand on the control …. Interfaces? NodeRed – to phone? Shapes from sounds?
Welcome to the Bournemouth Processing_Open_Day 2020 wiki!
Explore creative coding using Processing; Drawing machines, thermal printers and LED Matrixes will be responding and visualising live coded audio.
Take part in a range of activities and learn the steps to make your own visualisations!
The event has been put together in collaboration by academics at the Arts University Bournemouth and Bournemouth University with special (and helpful!) guests of Make Bournemouth.
The day will come to an end with live performances of both audio and hardware, creating original artwork for future exhibitions.
!!UPDATE!!
Well no surprise that due to the global pandemic, this all got postponed! Still thinking of alternatives - likely summertime though! It also might be a little different, such as venue change, music / sonic changes given availaiblity of participants - OR we run it online... Processing have been holding their community day online...
We're taking part in this years Processing Foundation's Community Open Day - which proves to be a great opportunity to get ourselves organised to showcase existing and create new work. A assemblage of collaborators have come together to bring their practice into the field. We hope to bring the community of creative coders from a range of disciplines together from Bournemouth and the South West. By putting together these activities it is hoped that we are able to boarded our scope of active computational creative practitioners.
Sat 16th May 2020
not sure - maybe August or September? Early September could be a good time - a couple of months from now (early June) to get back into the flow, lockdown easing either partially or fully...
Buffalo Bar, Landsdown, Bournemouth, BH8 8AD - Upstairs. We get there for 1pm, set up and get on it straight away! space for multiple activities throughout the day (see below) with access to power. We need to re visit the site and guage what equiptment we need to take (tables / chairs / pool table cover, window blackout).
Again this has all gone out the window now - no venue currently thought about / highlighted. Likely somewhere that permits 2m social distancing! OR We run it online which I think could work quite well. apart from Latency issues but perhaps that's a Brian question as was looking into options.
Hardware
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LED Matrixes
- Several custom 8x8 grids (large)
- PSUs for LEDs and drawing machines
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Projector
- Short Throw / Rear Projection - large screen size
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Thermal Printers
- Several, running via Processing on Pi
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Drawing Machines
- PolarGraph / CoreXY machines - maybe 3
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Audio extravaganza
- Evening of music and reactionary visuals!
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Couple of extension cables each space
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laptops for each space (bring own?)
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Find out what audio ppl. need (I know the PA is something you can plug into easy (phono cables)).
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Audio in cables for laptops? Or OSC
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built in laptop mics or external jobbies?! (USB)
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Cover for pool table
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blackout for the windows (Buffalo to do?)
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projector screen? investigate low (blanket?) cost OR Ed's got 2x 40inch screen thingies
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projectors - got a fancy new one
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another visit to site - check power - check space - create 'floorplan' to place everybody
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Transport (Ed to get van from work?)
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Audio people requirements!
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find out what they are!!
Live passthrough from Processing to GRBL functions Processing sketch for above
- include GUI for paper size, artwork spacing / scale etc
- set zero / home
- range of variables and sliders
- other machine control?
- pen position on screen?
A couple have been suggested, and a few have been started:
- Joy Division esque linear waveforms of captured audio, plotted point by point along a line. Perhaps one line (row) per minute, subdivided into 20 segments with total 10 rows.
- similar waveform but plotted in a spiral, real time / near real time
- create a function that listens to audio over a set time, and generates predefined forms to be plot on the page, not real time drawing. Was thinking of a Kandinsky drawing, with geometries appearing randomly on the page. *squares / grids / cubes generated through audio analysis
What's going on here then!
Assuming they fit together perfectly, its only a matter of construction, possibly painting black, installing the reflective tape, joining the 4 together
What are we visualising here?!
- WirlyNoise Sketch - random (noise) - couple colour map or scrub through the noise function
- MetaBall - the Shiffman example runs on the grid well
- OPenCV - render the grid as a low res screen, perhaps audio changing colour, number / size of partials etc?
- geometric lines / flashes / fills etc. A bit square pusher.
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4 zones / areas
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Covering each of the hardware
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Hardware to have an introductory script running to get people going
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Each zone to have its own tech specialist to run that space, spend time running over the
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Each zone to have its own audio person to collaborate with teh tech specialist, code, machine / hardware and participants. -approx. 5hrs for the day between setup and breakdown periods
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13:00 Arrive on site (setup) - maybe 1hr+ to setup? open the doors but make it aware its the nitty gritty setup phase
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13:30 PCD starts - each zone / station / area to have a peice of tech, creative coder, audio person and participants. Demo of the machine with some basic scripts to explore the possibilities. Demo of some audio and what their approach is - conversation about what can be achieved, scope for the day's outputs.
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thinking that we're doing our own thing - if anyone pops in, happy to chat / explain / work with...opposed to 'here Is how to use processing 101'
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17:30 begin a demo of each station / presentation of audio visual responses.
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18:30 Tidy up real fast
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19:00 Have to be out
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19:30 drink booze!
-- other thoughts: invite ppl. to bring own equiptment with them. We're not providing 10 Laptops for example. introduce processing as an IDE for creative coders.....
deliver some core things that gets everyone on board with processing - to help each other out and here we introduce the core approached to the day - audio reactive, libraries, some sketches that our guys have created audio people to do a 10 min intro also where they can explain their work + demo their work + discuss opportunities for collaboration.
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/drawingmachine/
Have at least one drawing machine and one LED thing working out of the box so we can set those up on the day so it looks like we know what we are doing. Live drawing machines - MQTT sending a small drawing from anyone. Warping images or geometric shapes. Physical interface nanoKontrol2 - Korg to affecting drawing machines and/or leds.
We need to know processing and at a couple of libraries each